Learn the alphabet and time and object skills with this interactive learning board that features light-up alphabet buttons and talking worm slider, as well as numerous fun songs and melodies. Twenty-six easy-to-press letter buttons on this interactive learning toy teach the alphabet sequence, phonics sounds, letter names and spelling, and play melodies and sound effects. The initial play experience for infants is when they begin to explore through moving and acting upon the world.

These young children are playing independently but they are also reinforcing their understanding of the social world by acting out scenarios. Move the worm clock hand around the play clock to explore time concepts, then switch to Feed the Hungry Worm to practice counting.Toys that name alphabet letters and everyday words satisfy young children’s need for repetition and rehearsal when practicing words and sounds. Some of these cookies are essential, while others help us to improve your experience by providing insights into how the site is being used. Lots of rehearsal and organisation is needed to use memory to its full advantage; repetition is an important part of both infant and childhood learning. There are social skills involved in language acquisition such as realising that it is necessary to wait until the other person has finished speaking. Young infants’ memories are influenced by context; for instance, they can imitate an adult’s actions with a toy but only if the toy is identical in colour and features to the one that the adult played with.

Although cooperative play increases during childhood, children still spend the equivalent amount of time in solitary or independent play. Switch to the music mode for 26 melodies with blinking lights that promote verbal and visual discovery. As babies develop they begin to use mental pictures of objects that are no longer within their field of vision. Adults can facilitate babies’ language development by playing with them, focussing on particular toys, reading books and naming everyday objects. With seven fantastic modes of play the Alphabet Apple has lots of exciting and challenging learning games that increase in difficulty giving new levels of game play!

This means that children can use deliberate mental activities, such as visualisation, to increase the chances of retaining information in working memory and then shifting it to their long-term knowledge base. Older infants can remember, for instance, how to press a toy animal to make a sound even if the toy is slightly different to the one which the adult used to demonstrate.

If you can find the older version the Alphabet Singing Radio its even better; pitty Vtech did away with it. Toys that encourage children to remember visual stimuli, answer questions and then repeat the activity over again enhance learning. Infants’ memories become less context dependent at the same time that infants start to crawl and walk.Learning to play independently has its benefits, for instance, children using an educational game can control their own pace. Giving babies plenty of opportunity to explore their world allows them to enhance their memory skills. My son has started to learn how to say letters of the alphabet and also has started to the the sounds together which is fantastic.