Infant Observation: Navigating Through the World of Toys

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Observation
N is sitting in a quiet corner of the room. He is holding a rattle in his right. He looks at the rattle and then puts it in his mouth. He takes it out of his mouth and then shakes it.
Then, he said, “d … d… d.” He shakes the rattle again and smiles. “d… dd…da,” said N. N suddenly looks towards me and gives me a big smile. N puts the rattle on the ground and crawls towards the toys container made up of glass and wood. He held the container with his both hands and tries to lift his body. H bends his body and tries to grab a toy with his left hand. He is unable to reach the toy. He tries again. He looks around and slowly sits on the ground. He bends his head and looks at the toys from the hole at one end of the container. He puts his hand into the hole while looking at the toys in container through glass. He grabs a toy and pulls it out of the container. He looks at the toy and puts it in his mouth. He takes it out of his mouth, looks at it and puts it in his mouth again.
Analysis of the observation
N is around nine months old child and is at the infancy phase of childhood. He is …show more content…

Given that N is at the babbling stage of language development, adults could foster his language acquisition skills through ‘joint attention’, wherein carer and child together attend a stimulus, such as reading books or playing peekaboo games. Secondly, adults can adjust their language to child-directed speech. Nevertheless, the content of child-directed speech is also important to children’s language development. Thirdly, singing songs and lullaby’s to children is another important strategy for language acquisition, and is valued in both Māori and Pākeha culture (Duchesne & McMaugh, 2016; MacNaughton & Williams, 2009). Given that N has Māori and Pākeha ethnicity, it is important to work in partnership with N’s parents, the first teachers of the child, to foster N’s communication

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