The environment in which a young child spends most of his time can have a serious impact on his development. If his surroundings are bland, static and lacking in contrast they will be unstimulating and will therefore limit his opportunities to learn from them. On the other hand, if they are dynamic and structured in a way that stimulates all his senses they can enhance his awareness and accelerate his ability to respond.

Environment enrichment involves becoming aware of the child's specific problems in terms of absorbing information and making appropriate responses, and then making adjustments to his surroundings and ways of handling and interacting with him. This might include such things as where to position him in the room to maximise the development of sight and hearing, how to encourage voluntary movement of his limbs, establishing basic methods of understanding his responses, ways of holding him that minimise the risk of the development of deformities and how to maximise conditions for developing independent mobility.