Toy Development: Stage 2 To 3 Years

By two years their speech will begin to develop as they start to respond and understand more words when they

For us as educators this is key to see where children are at. In the early stages of childhood 0-12 months it can be seen from imitation of parents or us as educators as they are grasping the basic tones. We will try and correct children as well who use words that are slurred or incorrectly to help them be able to develop correctly. A child not being able to understand at such a young age even slightly may show signs of deafness or something else with their development. As we progress further into age groups we as educators try and use language more with children, getting them to perfect basic words they are using as well as introducing new words into their vocabulary and environment to give them a broad range of what can be said. As they enter

The Concrete Operational Stage (7-11): - A this stage the child can operate objects and understand them providing they can se them and/or are holding them. The child can count, spell, read etc. Although the child still needs some objects i.e. fingers, toys to count there is still a need for visual assistance. The child is developing a less egocentric perspective.

2-3 years children will be saying sentences and communicating successfully. Although they will still make mistakes with there grammar such as ; i eaten it, i drawed it.

Infants go through different developmental stages. It is a part of the human life cycle. The beginning stages of an infant’s life is the most developing (Payne & Issacs, 2012). One of the stages that infant go through is the Late Infancy Stage. During the Late Infancy Stage, infants between 7-9 months reach many different milestones. As the infant grows and becomes aware of their surrounding the more developed they become. Infants discover new things daily and it is important to support their growth. Late Infancy stage involves the gross motor, fine motor, oral- motor, cognitive language, personal and social

Children's speech at this boundary develops quite a lot.at this age children begin to ask and answer simple questions such as ‘what's that noise? and who's that?'. They start to use plurals such as shoes and past tense as I did It.

Communication development 0-3 years listening to parents and practitioner and starting to recognise their name by 1 and half they should be able to say mama dada ect and start to join in with rhymes such as twinkle twinkle little star. At the age of 3 they should be able to say at least 200 words. If the child has a speech problem then we use 100 words pictures and sign language to see what they know.

At the age of 9months child starts saying simple words like

Language is a miracle. According to Nabe News, a professional education article, "Scientists tell us that the native language that babies hear creates a permanent auditory map in the brain. Infants learn the sound of their native language by the age of six months by virtue of multiple exposure meanings to sounds long before they shed their diapers. They launch into grammatical analysis before they can tie their shoes.

It is necessary to communicate with toddlers in their own ‘language’. Toddlers tend to experience the world around them through their five primary senses,

There is a great deal about this toy that promotes the development of gross motor skills. Gross motor skills are defined as larger movements that a child makes with their body. The action of getting on and off the toy allows the child gross movement of their lower extremities. The child must be able to widely abduct the hip as well as possibly flex the knee. This same motion would be done with both getting on and off the car. The child’s ability to move the handlebars to make the front two wheels of the car move would also be a gross motor task. This movement could be done one of two ways: the extension of the child’s shoulders followed by flexion and extension at the elbows or extension of the child’s elbows while the shoulder/ scapula protract and retract.

Then, cooing appears when the child is between six to eight weeks old, where the infant demonstrates happy vowel like sounds (Hoff, 2006). At age sixteen weeks infants begin to demonstrate laughter and vocal play (Hoff, 2006). Between six and nine month old babies begin to produce babbling sounds, then they utter their first word around age one (Hoff, 2006). When children speak their first word it is usually as an isolated unit (Goldin-Meadow, 2006), and not considered a major step in phonological development (Hoff, 2006). Children then learn that their first spoken word is composed of smaller parts, which is known as morphology, and that the word can be used as a building block for larger sentences called syntax (Goldin-Meadow, 2006). A child’s first word goes farther then communicating a message between the child and communicative partner, the word retains symbolic meaning (Goldin-Meadow, 2006). At age eighteen months phonological processes develop, in which the child’s speech characteristics begin to transform (Hoff, 2006). Subsequent to eighteen months the child’s vocabulary grows and with this growth the child is able to phonemically represent a sound with the mental representation of every word that possesses a sound (Hoff, 2006).

As a part of our final project for GEEN 1400 Engineering Projects, we had to design an original toy for children aged eight and under. Each group has to come up with a new toy which has not yet existed. The toy requires the implementation of engineering skills in its manufacturing and design process. Some of those competence are obtained from in-class workshops or personal experience, though students are also allowed to take workshops outside of class, in the ITLL, or Idea Forge. Several of the skills most groups require are: laser cutting, CAD, electronics, 3D printing, etc. Not everyone in the group possesses skills for all aspects of the project. Students divide among themselves and each member takes over a part of the project, however, team members still communicate with each other in completing their tasks. Later, they piece in their parts and collaborate to figure out remaining tasks and possible improvements to the project. The deadline for this project is the Design Expo where students present their project to judges visiting from local companies.

From birth to about two years is when this stage usually beging. During this stage the child cannot use language but thinking is also not the focus. Infants and toddlers do not have the words for many things so objects do not properly exist when they interact with objects directly. For children that age environmental interactions is what is the most important. Children are egocentric at this age, everything they see they use as a reference to themselves. The concept for a child develops when they are near the end of this stage, that is when they start associating with words and being able to give objects a name.

Have you ever heard the name of Barbie or Hot wheels before? What is the main factor do you consider when buying a toys to children? Safety, Price or Branding? Mattel is a one of the worldwide leader and historic branding in toys industry was founded in 1945, which provided toys product from their own design idea to mass production and retailer shop distribution. They were owned and created several popular toys branding such as fashion doll Barbie, Hot wheels, Monster Highs and acquired famous preschool toys branding Fisher Price in 1993. Headquarters was founded in El Segundo, California, thirty thousand employees are working in forty countries and selling products in one hundred and fifty countries, focusing in domestic US market.