Connected Baby, The

Synopsis: This film uses insights from scientific studies to demonstrate how babies come into the world already communicating, social and able to engage actively with the people around them, by responding to other people’s body rhythms and vocal tones and movements. It makes them much more communicative and sophisticated than we often realise. In fact, it turns out that their very brain pathways are shaped by the kinds of responses that they receive from other people. The film contains commentary from some of the leading infant researchers in the UK, together with footage of parents and grandparents engaged in playful interaction with their infants.

The film is structured in four chapters or dances: The dance of connection, The dance of the nappy, The dance of the air, The dance of the mirror. Each dance observes and analyses the interaction between baby and parent in a familiar domestic situation, in order to highlight the extraordinary abilities of the young baby to communicate and enter into conversation with an adult. Each dance on the DVD is accessible independently of the others, to enable its use in discussion groups, lectures etc.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2011
Year of production: 2011
Subjects: Psychology
Keywords: behavioural psychology; child development; developmental psychology; infants; communication

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