Today's babies and toddlers see adults using mobile phones and quickly come to recognise the ringing tones and musical tunes they make. They are surrounded by electronic sounds, bleepers, bells, buzzers and tunes from equipment in their own homes and by toys that have musical tunes and interesting sounds built into them through digitised processes.
This is their contemporary world - one in which digitised sounds can very easily be built into all kinds of equipment. Watch a one- to two-year-old with a piece of equipment or a new toy and you will see tiny fingers quick to explore and discover the buttons; pressing, tapping or turning, to produce the different effects.
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