Stimulating Infant Development : A Systematic Review

Abstract

Stimulation is an activity that stimulates the basic abilities of children so that children can grow and develop optimally. The golden age is the stage where the child's brain develops very quickly so that the provision of stimulation to children since infancy will stimulate the brain, so that the development of movement skills, speech and language skills, socialization, and independence of infants takes place optimally according to their age. This systematic review analyzed 11 international journals on infant stimulation that has an impact on optimizing infant development. The results found that there are two forms of stimulation, namely stimulation through play and stimulation through interactions between parents or caregivers and infants such as verbal stimulation, visual stimulation, and tactile stimulation. All forms of interaction given to infants have a positive impact on infant development in cognitive and social development.