October 01, 2008

Children Development Software

We have been letting the rascals exposed to computers at quite an early age. There has been quite a number of good children development software around and now that computer plays a part in the growing stages, it is good to let them try their hands on the computer.

Children development evolves around these 5 areas :-
  • Social and Emotional Development
  • Language Development
  • Physical and Motor Development
  • General Knowledge and Cognition
  • Learning Styles/Modes




We started with some Toddler versions that covers mouse-navigation that covers the Motor skills, instructions from the software would cover their exposure to Language. Research found that most of these development software focuses on the language and cognitive skills. There's is also motivation and attention grabbing from these software whereby points/scores are obtained for each level/stages attained throughout the sessions.

Toddler versions normally covers mouse navigations to click on buttons on the screens for nursery rhymes, sounds of different musical instruments, pronunciations of numbers, alphabets, shapes, colours, etc

After the Toddler versions, we got them some preschools softwares. When Ian reach 4 years old, we let him go online to some children website as shown in "Ian's Fav Links". Iason is only 3 years old and he's on the Toddler versions. We started on the JumpStart softwares.

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