How old is your baby to start early intervention?

Premature newborns can exhibit many amazing abilities. They can see and hear, have the ability to taste, smell, touch and interact, as well as the ability to move their limbs and bodies naturally. These sensory and motor abilities are the “windows” to their minds, which are open and ready to capture good information from the environment. These “windows” are the sensory organs of the eyes, ears, mouth, nose, and skin, as well as the invisible senses of balance and movement. His brain has hundreds of billions of nerve cells eager to receive and process the appropriate stimuli from the “windows” of entry, and this is where learning begins. This information, like sunlight and rain, encourages the nerve trees, or nerve cells, to thrive and the neural information pathways, or synapses, to be established, which is the best time for a premature baby’s injured brain to heal.