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Promoting the perception of preschool children

Perception plays a crucial role in a child's development. Imagine your child seeing a rainbow, hearing a dog bark, feeling the smooth skin of an apple or the loving kiss on the cheek. Sensory experiences are key to developing all important abilities such as language, memory, concentration, endurance, movement, and social behavior. Active experience is at the centre of their development. Children learn with all their senses, experiencing their environment through sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste. Engaging in playful activities such as puzzles enhances spatial awareness and fine motor skills, while building blocks help understand size, shape, and balance. Kneading stimulates tactile perception and creativity. Walks in the park foster curiosity and the discovery of their surroundings, and reading stories aloud promotes attentive listening and stimulates the imagination. Visiting a playground allows children to use their whole body, developing an awareness of their posture, movement, and balance as they climb, slide, swing and balance. Provide your child with daily experiences that stimulate their senses through active engagement, thus supporting their holistic development. It is also important to watch for signs of perceptual problems, such as delayed motor development, sound sensitivity, or avoidance of activities like kneading and coloring. Early recognition and targeted support of such difficulties will prepare your child for school and life in the best possible way.
Mother and son build together with wooden blocks.
Smiling boy in a striped shirt against a blue background.

Support activities

The development of perception is a central component of child development. Games such as ›Kommando Pimperle‹, for example, support auditory perception and concentration by requiring quick and attentive listening. Reading stories aloud also promotes auditory perception and has a positive effect on language development, as children expand their vocabulary and improve their grammar and sentence structure through attentive listening.
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