Parent & Baby Learning Event
Date: Monday, July 8th 2024
Location: Glasgow Science Centre
Time: 3pm-5pm
Free to attend: This is a FREE event, open to all members of the public
Parking: Free for all event attendees
Exhibition access: 40% discount given to all attendees for access between 2pm-5pm
Contact info: For any questions, please contact
Event Sponsor: Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development
About The Event
- Have you ever wondered how your baby learns new things?
- Do you want to learn how best to encourage your child to walk or talk, or promote good sleep?
This event will give parents and carers with 0-3-year-old infants, the opportunity to ask experts about their child’s development in an open, accessible way – ranging from screens and sleep, to language and feeding. If you have questions or would just like to hear the latest on how baby and toddler brains develop, then please come!
The event will also feature talks from Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, a world-famous innovator in playful learning, and from Anne Wood, the creator of Teletubbies and In the Night Garden. We will also have a theatre show from Dr Caspar Addyman based on his book series ‘Babies Laugh‘.
We will also have representatives from Early Years Scotland, talking about the services that are available for parents raising young children in Scotland. And we will have representatives from the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood, talking about the advocacy work that they do raising awareness about the importance of early years and early years provision in the UK and around the world.
Expression of interest: If you are planning on attending, please register your expression of interest below:
Public Lecture Speakers
Anne Wood
Ragdoll Productions Ltd.
Talk time: 3pm
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
Temple University
Talk time: 4:45pm
Meet the Experts
Autism Early Signs
What are early signs of autism in infancy?
Jesssica Bradshaw, University of South Carolina
Feeding
Discovering the impacts of mums and milk on infant neurodevelopment
Brittany Howell, Virginia Tech
Language
How to support your child’s language development
Catherine Tamis-Lemonda, New York University & Lillian Masek
How bilingual children learn
Leher Singh, National University of Singapore
Learning
How babies learn to make judgements about right and wrong
Kiley Hamlin, The University of British Columbia
Memory/Attention
What do babies remember?
Natalie Brito, New York University
How do babies bay attention to things
Natasha Kirkham, Birkbeck, University of London
Motor
How to support your child’s motor development
Lana Karasik, City University of NY
Other
Early years provision available in Scotland
Jane Brumpton, Early Years Scotland
Provision of Early Years
Jennifer Holly, Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood
How do babies learn to understand that other people have thoughts and feelings
Zana Clay, Durham University
Parenting
How to calm a crying child
Sam Wass, University of East London
Personality
Different baby personalities and different parenting styles
Koraly Perez-Edgar, Pennsylvania State University
Play
How to make babies laugh and why it matters
Caspar Addyman, Stellenbosch University
How are play and learning inter-related?
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Temple University & Molly Scott
Technology
How can my child develop healthy relationships with screens?
Jenny Radesky, University of Michigan Medical School
Growing up in a digital world
Rachel Barr, Georgetown University
How is media use connected to sleep and learning?
Sabine Seehagen, Ruhr University Bochum & Sarah Berger, College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Does technology change the way we pay attention?
Tim Smith, University of the Arts London
Other Activities
Playful learning Landscapes
In the midst of the experts, we will also have some Playful Learning Landscapes designed for children by Kathy Hirsh Pasek. https://kathyhirshpasek.com/learning-landscapes/.
Theatre Show
Join us for a Theatre Show given by Caspar Addyman based on his book series ‘Babies Laugh’ https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/dr-caspar-addyman/44512.
Schedule:
Show 1: 3:30pm-4pm
Show 2: 4pm-4:30pm
Getting To the Venue
Information on how to get to the Science Centre can be found here.