Toys are the child's tools for developing pattern recognition and the neural infra structure that supports this process.
Warning--do try this in the home, but beware-- it takes intensive monitoring which is physically and mentally stressful for the moms and/or dads.
When the child is older, we would like to see pencils, crayons and paints (and paper), and a place to use them readily available for the child to continue his perceptual exploration.
It's called play but it's as important as college prep.
The exercising of these perceptual skills not only fosters skills that are useful now, but they also represent, more importantly to me, an indication of increased neural growth.
It is this growth that provides a rich neural infra structure that will assure the acquisition of related skills all throughout the child's life.
Let's continue now to discuss some of the important auditory perceptual skills.
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