Scientifi c breakthroughs in the fi eld of early brain development have shown that vital brain cell connections (synapses) are made in the fi rst fi ve years of life in the parts of the brain that control how a child listens, sees, talks, discovers, reasons and feels. As the child continues to grow, some of these original neural pathways will be strengthened while others will be discarded. This brain-wiring process happens most rapidly during infancy and early childhood, when “the brain is particularly open to biological embedding and to creating the neural pathways that will.
