Areas of early development and stimulation:
Since they are in the womb, babies require important stimuli for their growth and development process.
Once they are born, they need more stimulation because that is when the process of formation of skills or areas of development begins.
What are the areas of baby development?
All babies have a series of innate abilities , which we know as reflexes, but there are others that are acquired during the first years of life.
The process of acquiring these skills is known as psychomotor development.
The latter includes language skills (linguistics) ; motor and socio-affective
Psychomotor development is a process that, although it has a similar sequence in all boys and girls , can occur at a different pace in each one.
Next, we are going to talk about each of the skills that make up this process:
language skills:
The linguistic area is related to the ability of the human being to communicate through sounds and symbols.
This process begins in babies with crying, then moans, babbling, gestures or movements , and finally, words.
Language is a skill that is learned naturally in the early years; girls and boys begin to speak in interaction with adults.
For this reason, it is important to talk to them constantly, articulate the words well, sing to them and name each activity they carry out or each object they manipulate.
In this way, children recognize the sounds of adult speech, and then imitate them .
motor skills:
The development of the motor area refers to all the senses and movements of children : hearing, vision, touch, taste and smell.
Through interaction with the environment, girls and boys learn about the color, shapes, textures, sounds, taste and smell of things.
Motor development encompasses gross motor development and fine motor development.
Gross motor development refers to the control of the general muscular movements of the body that leads children to be able to move around on their own. It includes, for example, head control, sitting, turning, crawling, standing, walking, jumping, throwing a ball, among others.
On the other hand, fine motor development refers to working with the group of small muscles that perform specific and highly controlled movements, such as the palms of the hands and the fingers.
These muscles allow you to lift objects, achieve eye-hand coordination (that is, between the eyes and the hands), speak, move your eyes and allow girls and boys to know the world and make contact with it.
Socio-affective skills:
This area is the ability of boys and girls to recognize and express their emotions and feelings.
It is very important because its development is what allows socialization and the establishment of affective bonds.
What is early intervention?
Early stimulation are exercises, games and activities developed with the baby in his first months and years of life that aim to develop and enhance brain functions.
Early stimulation serves to make the most of the baby's ability to learn and adapt in a simpler, faster and more intense way and its benefits are physical, emotional and intellectual.
