Nursery World - Caring for under-threes: hearing

You can tune the ears of babies and toddlers to picking out sounds and matching them to what they are seeing and doing, as Jennie Lindon explains <P> </P> <P> The impressive sensory skills of human babies are now far better recognised by researchers. If all is going well, babies are alert with all their senses from the very beginning. They are definitely hearing sounds as well as making them. </P>

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You can tune the ears of babies and toddlers to picking out sounds and matching them to what they are seeing and doing, as Jennie Lindon explains

The impressive sensory skills of human babies are now far better recognised by researchers. If all is going well, babies are alert with all their senses from the very beginning. They are definitely hearing sounds as well as making them.

0-12 months

1-2 years

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