Developmental Toys and Language Acquisition

The Easy PC system and line of developmental toys are designed for toddlers and kids between 1-5 years old. At this age, motor, cognitive and social developments happen rapidly. Developmental toys assist toddlers to deal with challenges they are facing in each stage of their development by acquiring new skills. One of the most important skills that toddlers acquire at this age is language, the foundations that are built at this early age will serve him for the rest of his life.

The first 3 years of life are the most intense period of speech and language development. At this age, the brain itself is developing; new knowledge and patterns of thought are acquired easily, if encouraged.

Most toddlers start talking around their first year birthday. At first, their vocabulary is very limited, but around the age of 1.5 years a "lexical spurt" occurs, and a mass of new words is obtained very quickly. The environment has a huge influence on toddler's vocabulary; toddlers who grow in surrounding which provides verbal stimulations can develop a vocabulary twice as large as the vocabulary of toddlers that didn't get enough verbal stimulation from their surroundings. Our line of developmental toys help parents provide an enriching environment for the development of their child.

The Easy PC system's developmental toys help toddlers to acquire a large vocabulary and develop linguistic skills that will serve them from now on.

The Easy PC system presents to the toddler a large variety of words in a fun, interactive way. This is done in increasing levels of verbal complexity; from basic names, nouns and verbs, for toddlers as early as 1 year of age, through short sentences and questions, to long and diverse full sentences at the age of 5.

Vocabulary is not enough in order to speak, grammar is essential as well. When they start to speak, toddlers use one word to convey a message; at the age of 1.5- 2.5 years toddlers start to assemble short sentences of 2-3 words. After this phase toddlers start to build "real" sentences and experiment in verb forms. The Easy PC system developmental toys are adjusted to toddler linguistic phases, helping them practice language skills and learn through imitation and interaction.

The Easy PC system developmental toys teach the toddler words through examples from his surroundings and usage of subjects that are interesting him at each phase. Softwares for young toddlers focus on forms, colors, "my room" etc; as the toddlers grow and develop, vocabulary is becoming increasingly complex and belongs to broader categories, like friends, animals and general knowledge.

Easy PC System Developmental Toys and bilingualism

The Easy Pc system developmental toys are available in up to 19 languages.

The Easy Shift between languages helps in acquiring a second language.

Why is acquiring a second language in such a young age so important?

1. Critical age- the ability to learn new languages develops at a young age. Researches show that learning a second language at a young age helps to develop the ability to learn more languages latter in life and increase learning abilities in general. The Easy PC system developmental toys assist toddlers to acquire this skill, which will be of great importance all their life.

2. Cognitive development- bilingual children can make rapid shifts between languages; these rapid shifts develop their comparison abilities and intellectual skills.

3. Social and emotional development- bilingual kids learn that it's possible to express the same idea in different ways; this realization helps them to understand people that think or feel differently than they do. Speaking two languages also helps children learn that they have to address different people in a different way. Since the Easy PC developmental toys characters speak more than one language, toddlers learn that sometimes they have to treat even the same people in a different way, according to environmental cues.

4. Bilingual families - when a different language is spoken inside the house and outside it, our developmental toys help the child to communicate fluently with his family and with the broader society. Multilingual developmental toys are helping bilingual families to maintain their mother tongue away from their home-land.

Visit our Language Center to find softwares in various languages.