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Dora: Adventure Calls Learning Phone

Developmental Benefits

Hand Eye Coordination
Hand Eye Coordination
Motor Skills
Motor Skills

Developmental Benefits

Dora: Adventure Calls Learning Phone

Hand Eye Coordination
  • Aiming and concentrating on a target improves hand/eye coordination.
  • Humans have highly developed manual dexterity skills that distinguish them from any other species on this planet. This manual dexterity emerges during the infant’s first year and, with plenty of opportunities to manipulate and play with toys and objects, becomes a highly tuned ability. Babies will reach and grasp for objects in an uncoordinated manner from an early age. As they begin to gain control over their movements infants succeed in reaching for and grasping toys. The first attempts by babies to grasp toys in their hands involve using the palm of their hand with all their fingers around the object. As development occurs through physical maturation and plenty of opportunities to play with toys, grasping becomes more sophisticated. The use of the opposable thumb and index finger allows infants to pick up very small objects in what is termed a ‘pincer grasp’. This finely tuned motor skill emerges at the end of first year of life.
    The development of hand and eye coordination skills continues throughout childhood where opportunities to play games that require children to manoeuvre objects, build tall towers or hit targets on a computer screen facilitate the development of finely-tuned hand and eye coordination.
Motor Skills
  • Encourages fine motor skill development.
  • An infant’s growth and development in the first year of life is rapid. Many movements that young babies make are in preparation for the next stage of their development. When young babies watch a mobile they are constantly moving their head, arms, legs and even their mouths in response to the movement of the toy. Sound and movement attract a baby’s attention; if a toy is placed almost within reach of babies their movements become more animated. Bath toys provide opportunities to develop and use motor skills to great effect. For example, a young baby has greater control over their leg movements than their arms. You will often see young babies in a bath reaching with their legs towards a floating toy and kicking. All these movements strengthen muscles in readiness for the next stage - walking.
    As babies develop they become more adept at grasping objects. Young infants learn to grasp an object, for instance a cube. The grasping, at first, is quite clumsy but through repetition, and across time, infants become adept at grasping and develop fine motor skills. Infants first use the ulnar grasp where their fingers close against the palm when trying to hold an object. Within another month they are able to move the object from hand to hand. After the first year, infants adopt the ‘pincer grasp’ where they use their thumb and index finger to grasp even very tiny objects. Shape sorters help infants to fine tune their visual perception and hand coordination. Soon infants are building towers with two cubes; this also requires fine coordination skills. As the child grows computer games have been shown to help with hand and eye coordination. Spatial skills can also be enhanced when playing games that require concentration, quick responses and finely tuned motor skills.
Best for ages:
3+ Years
Highlights
Can you hear the call for adventure?! It's the Dora Adventure Calls Learning Phone by VTech®! Chat with Dora, Backpack, Benny, Tico, Boots, Map and Swiper with this interactive role-play smartphone!
Description
Can you hear the call for adventure?! It's the Dora Adventure Calls Learning Phone by VTech®! Chat with Dora, Backpack, Benny, Tico, Boots, Map and Swiper with this interactive role-play smartphone! Engage in exciting activities and cool features that help test your skills with counting, logic, music recognition, matching and more. You can also leave fun virtual voice messages for Dora, Backpack, Benny, Tico, Boots, Map and Swiper, and use voice activated play to make pretend phone calls! You can choose your own virtual ringtone too, and enjoy exciting responses in both English and Spanish! Features a colour-changing light bar to add to the fun!

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