ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on infant and toddler perception, which is when the children use their senses to take in, organize and interpret what they are experiencing. These experiences involve infants and toddlers learning to discriminate differences and perceive similarities, and gives them the foundation for interpreting the events of the world around them. How caregivers can create environments that have the appropriate type and amount of stimuli to induce sensory experiences and promote brain growth and development is explained. The link between sensory experience and all areas of development is described, and a specific focus on early sensorimotor experience providing the basis for cognitive development is given.
