Topic: Infant Brain Development and Child-Care Settings

This activity reviews research studies regarding infant brain development and applies the research findings to the development of an infant child-care setting.

Using research articles and your textbook, identify how the brain develops during the first year of life. Explain how experiences influence brain development.

Develop a child-care program for infants that would facilitate infant brain/perceptual development.

The child-care program should be based on suggestions from current research findings that would enhance infants’ development.

For example, you will want to consider what toys would be appropriate for infants of different ages, and decide how you would decorate the setting. More stimulation is not always better.