PlayWisely is a novel approach to early learning designed to target the positive development of a wide range of cognitive and physical/motor abilities by stimulating the rapidly developing brain of very young children (from 4 months to 3 years of age). The current pilot study represents a first step toward providing an evidence base for the efficacy of this approach by conducting a small‐sample (N = 17) randomized controlled comparison of the cognitive and motor abilities of a group of children who were administered 16 weeks of PlayWisely training with a wait‐list group of children who were administered this training 5 months later. Results showed a marginally significant 20% greater differential increase in the overall total cognitive scale scores over the 10‐month study period coupled with significant differential increases in both fine motor and visual motor subscale scores and a marginally significant differential increase in the speed of processing subscale scores (as measured by the Merrill‐Palmer‐Revised Scales of Development).

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增强幼儿的认知和运动能力：PlayWisely方法功效的初步研究

PlayWisely是一种新颖的早期学习方法，旨在通过刺激非常年轻的儿童（4个月至3岁）迅速发展的大脑来针对广泛的认知和身体/运动能力的积极发展。当前的试点研究是通过进行少量样本（N= 17）对接受PlayWisely训练16周的一组儿童与5个月后接受该训练的一组候补儿童的认知和运动能力进行随机对照比较。结果显示，在整个10个月的研究期内，总体认知量表总分的差异性增加了20％，而精细运动和视觉运动子量表的差异也显着增加，而处理子量表的速度也有显着差异。分数（通过美林-帕尔默修订的发展量表衡量）。