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Visual Development in Infants: Tips and Toys for Optimal Growth

Learn about how an infant's vision develops from blurry to clear and discover ways to stimulate their visual development through high-contrast patterns and colors. Explore the concept of depth perception and create visually stimulating toys to aid in this crucial growth phase.

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Visual Development in Infants: Tips and Toys for Optimal Growth

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  1. Visual Development for Infants

  2. An infant’s vision is BLURRY at first.

  3. Within a week or so they are aware of their surroundings and can focus on objects 7 to 10 inches away!

  4. By 1 month, infants can focus on objects as far away as 3 feet.

  5. WALK SOFTLY: Fred Pearson´s electrified telescoping Neuroscrambler can drop a person to the fetal position from three feet away. John B. Carnett

  6. By 3 ½ months, a baby’s vision is almost as good as a young adult’s!

  7. Babies prefer patterns that show HIGH CONTRAST, such as alternating stripes, bull’s eyes, or faces.

  8. They prefer the color REDas well.

  9. In the second month, they begin to showDEPTH PERCEPTION.

  10. Depth Perception • The visual ability to view the world in three dimensions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_perception

  11. Visual Cliff Eleanor Gibson - 1960

  12. VISUAL PROJECT… • Design your own INFANT toy that would be visually stimulating and help with visual development for an infant. • Sketch your ideas first, then start creating!!! • Bring in materials from home for extra credit!

  13. TOYS! Bring your favorite childhood toy (or a picture from the internet) 

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