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My Sleepy Sloth

Developmental Benefits

Tactile Stimulation
Tactile Stimulation
Auditory Stimulation
Auditory Stimulation

Developmental Benefits

My Sleepy Sloth

Tactile Stimulation
  • Mixture of different textures provide stimulation for baby.
  • Babies learn about the world through their senses. The sense of touch is intimately linked with other senses such as sound and vision. Babies are provided with stimulation from more than one sensory system at the same time; this is termed intermodal perception. They learn about the sounds that different objects make when they bang or touch them. Toys that are have different textures and shapes facilitate infants’ learning. Babies put toys and other objects in their mouths from an early age. They also begin to reach for and grasp objects and then move toys from one hand to another. Toys that are made of different materials and are different shapes stimulate young infants to grasp, mouth and shake them. Babies then gain greater motor control and begin to pick up small objects with their thumb and index finger. They also begin to bang objects together. This combines tactile and auditory stimulation; they feel the vibration and also hear the sound.
    Bath time play is an excellent opportunity for tactile stimulation. Bath toys that are small and lightweight so that young babies can grasp them are excellent stimulus materials. Babies and young children can learn from handling toys in the water; there are many opportunities for grasping, squeezing and squirting water from objects. Tactile stimulation and learning is also experienced when infants and young children feel the weight of a toy when they have filled it with water and then after they have poured the water away. These types of experiences help young children to learn about the shape, pattern, surface, texture and weight of objects through touching them.
Auditory Stimulation
  • Fun and interesting sound effects draw baby’s attention to play.
  • Even very early in life babies can hear a wide variety of sounds. Infants will turn towards the sound of a toy and begin to reach towards it. This ability to recognise the direction that a sound is coming from improves greatly during the first few years of life. Young infants listen longer to the sound of human voice and seem to prefer it to any other sound. They are especially aware of the sound of language and like to be spoken to slowly and with a high pitch. This is sometimes referred to as ‘infant directed speech’ or even ‘baby talk’. Young babies are quite sensitive in their auditory abilities and can perceive all the categorical sound distinctions in world languages. As babies develop their auditory abilities narrow so that eventually babies are only sensitive to those sound categories specific to their native language.
    As soon as babies are born they are influenced by what they hear around them and modify what they able to hear, accordingly. At the same time they become increasingly sensitive to music and musical patterns. Even in their first year babies are distinguishing between musical tunes on the basis of rhythmic patterns and later they begin to recognise the same melody played in a different key. Giving babies plenty of opportunities to hear music, singing, rhythm and talk enhances their learning and prepares them for the social world where they will talk, sing, play and listen to music.
Best for ages:
Birth+
Highlights
Meet My Sleepy Sloth by VTech! This adorable and soft fabric sloth is the ideal cuddling buddy.
Description

Meet My Sleepy Sloth by VTech! This adorable and soft fabric sloth is ideal for soothing little ones. My Sleepy Sloth plays soothing sing-along songs, peaceful melodies, relaxing lullabies, calming phrases and gentle sounds which ease little one. Various soft fabrics on My Sleepy Sloth allow for tactile stimulation and sensory discovery. Sloth's light up heart button triggers responses and acts as a nightlight with up to 45 minutes of sounds and melodies. Leaf button can pause and play music responses. There are 3 sing-along songs, 5 stories and 25 melodies in total.

WARNING: Keep this soft toy out of the sleeping environment for babies under twelve months to avoid suffocation risk.

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