Nurturing Care Framework for Early Childhood Development
1What parents should know
The international framework for early childhood. It names five components of nurturing care - good health, adequate nutrition, safety and security, responsive caregiving and opportunities for early learning.
2Source and checks
The research behind it
What each study found comes first, then the kind of study and where it was published. We prefer systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and check for new research every month.In a study of 4- to 6-year-olds, the number of back-and-forth conversational turns with adults predicted activity in language areas of the brain better than the number of words children heard.
9-month-old infants learned Mandarin speech sounds from live sessions with a person, but not from the same material shown on video or audio.
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Checklists of what most children can do at 12 ages from 2 months to 5 years, covering social, language, thinking and movement skills.
Explains how babies and young children learn about people, objects and language by experimenting, much like small scientists.