Brain Development

The first three years of life are a period of incredible growth in all areas of a baby's development.

A newborn's brain is about 25 percent of its approximate adult weight. But by age 3, it has grown dramatically by producing billions of cells and hundreds of trillions of connections, or synapses, between these cells.
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The exponential growth of language synapses takes place in the first 8 months after birth. This is the critical period for the development of the voice recognition system, a super software system built up from trillions of connections (memory bites) of sound data base. Connections takes place upon stimulation of speech sounds from social interaction with people.

The sensitivity to speech sounds for a baby during this sensitive period is probably 100 times higher than a 3-year old child.

Pruning of redundant neurons & synapses begins from the 9th month.

Find out more from 10,000 hours of research on early brain development and language acquisition. Join us at the Parenting Seminar (free) on coming Saturday at our Admiralty Centre. Tel: 2866 2028.