Goodstart Early Learning Yamanto in Ipswich, Queensland | Nursery

Goodstart Early Learning Yamanto

Locality: Ipswich, Queensland

Phone: +61 7 3294 0111

Address: 2-4 Equestrian Drive 4305 Ipswich, QLD, Australia

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18.01.2022 It's Naidoc Week! This week Goodstart acknowledges the First Nations people who have occupied and cared for this continent for over 65,000 years. Our centres ar...ound the country will be celebrating the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures through activities and games. . At Goodstart we have an ongoing commitment to Reconciliation and have launched our Stretch Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP). This launch marks our ongoing and deepening commitment to reconciliation and outlines our path forward for the next three years. #NAIDOC #NAIDOC2020 #NAIDOCWeek #alwayswasalwayswillbe See more

12.01.2022 This week at Goodstart Yamanto we celebrate NAIDOC week and National Recycling week. What a fabulous combination to incorporate together, to extend on our everyday practice.

09.01.2022 To support our families who speak languages other than English, we have translated some of our most popular Goodstart@Home routine-based learning activity cards... into Mandarin, Arabic and Hindi. Download them today and share them with your friends and family. https://www.goodstart.org.au/goodstart-at/other-languages/ #goodstartathome See more

08.01.2022 Babies begin to relate to others through touch from their earliest days connections that have implications for their health and their social development well b...eyond infancy, particularly their ability to empathize with others, according to scientists. Very young babies can look out at other people's bodies moving and can relate the same biological movement to their own felt movement, which is a bedrock for social development, said Andrew Meltzoff, co-director of the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences at the University of Washington. Long before babies acquire spoken language, touch is a crucial channel of communication between caregivers and babies, said Andrew Meltzoff. Now we have the tools to see how the baby's body is represented in the baby's brain. This allows us to catch the first glimpse of a primitive sense of self that provides a building block for social learning. Researchers observed brain activity in 7-month-old babies that distinguished between felt touch and observed touch, showing even by young that age, infants have already made a basic connection between self and other. Researchers say this lays the groundwork for imitating and learning from the behavior of other people, and for empathizing with them. With the help of a magnetoencephalography (MEG) machine, Andrew Meltzoff and his team discovered which parts of the brain lit up when the baby experienced touch. As expected, when an infant's hand was touched, the hand area of the somatosensory cortex was activated in all the infants tested; when the foot was touched, activation occurred in the foot area of the brains of all of the infants but one. Also as expected, the babies had a weaker response to observed touch in the same, related brain regions. The same is true of adults: A touch to your own hand is going to generate greater brain activity in the somatosensory cortex than merely seeing the touch to someone else's hand. This ability plays into how babies learn, Meltzoff said. Imitation is a powerful learning mechanism for infants, but in order to imitate, infants have to perceive how body parts correspond. In other words, they need to reproduce the same movement with the same part when they imitate what their parent is doing. Before they have words for the body parts, babies recognize that their hand is like your hand, and their foot is like your foot, Meltzoff explained. The neural body map helps connect babies to other people: The recognition that another person is ‘like me' may be one of the baby's first social insights. With development, this like-me recognition eventually flowers into feeling empathy for someone else. If you see someone accidentally hit their thumb with a hammer, you rapidly, if perhaps imperceptibly, recoil by moving your hand. This is where a shared neural body map that connects self to others comes into play. The idea of using brain science to study how and when humans first feel a sense of connectedness with others is important and fascinating, Meltzoff said. We can now look under the hood and see what's happening when a baby watches and connects to others. It's a touching sight. https://www.washington.edu//a-touching-sight-how-babies-br / https://www.aaas.org//touch-babies-provides-foundation-emp https://theswaddle.com/baby-brain-activity-shows-how-infan/ #neurochild #empathy #biologicallife #physicality