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Our Resource Library contains materials and assistance for early childhood educators and those they serve. Explore our selection of podcasts, tip sheets, websites, documents, and self-study courses.
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| Resource Name | Description | Resource Type |
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| Parents learn, babies talk: How Coaching moms and dads Leads to Better Language Skills among Infants | When it comes to helping infants learn to talk, it’s not just how much parents say, but how they say it. Speaking directly to the baby with a style of speech known as “parentese” — talking slowly and clearly, often with exaggerated vowels and intonation — appears to improve infant language development. A new study from the University of Washington’s Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences (I-LABS) shows that parents who learn how and why to speak parentese can have a direct impact on their children’s vocabulary. | |
| Parents’ Prescription: Talk, Read, and Sing | Just before parents leave the hospital with their newborn for the first time, doctors go through a list of discharge instructions, including guidelines for how to keep their baby healthy and safe. As families return to pediatricians for regular wellness checks, there is one topic that many pediatricians never address, yet one physician-scientist says should get top billing. | |
| Part 1: Supporting Quality Play Relationships-Infants and Toddlers | Listen as our guest, Dr. Sue Starks, Professor of Education and Chair of Early Childhood at Concordia University St. Paul, talks about one of her passions, supporting play in young children. Dr. Starks shares that play is relationship based and your environment matters. How can you align your space to foster early social emotional connection through play. Join us as we explore this important topic. | Podcast |
| Part 2: Supporting Quality Play Relationships-Preschoolers | Join in our second part of a discussion on the importance of play with Dr. Sue Starks, Professor of Education and Chair of Early Childhood at Concordia University St. Paul. We discuss the fact that play is a developmental need and that all children show us what they need through play. Quality play is encouraged through the supports, prompts, activities, and experiences that we provide in the early childhood setting. Listen as Dr. Starks encourages us all to play! | Podcast |
| Pathways RTC: Research and Training Center for Pathways to Positive Futures | The Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health is dedicated to promoting effective community-based, culturally competent, family-centered services for families and their children who are, or may be affected by mental, emotional or behavioral disorders. This goal is accomplished through collaborative research partnerships with family members, service providers, policy makers, and other concerned persons. Research information, conference information, publications and a newsletter are all available on line. Training is offered for graduate and undergraduate students to become acquainted with research in the family education field. | Website |
| Physical Developmental Delays: What to look for | The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recently launched Physical Developmental Delays: What to Look For, an interactive online tool for parents of children ages 5 and under to use when they are concerned about their child's motor development. Health care providers who are approached with these concerns can refer to the AAP clinical report, Motor Delays: Early Identification and Evaluation, which includes an algorithm to guide developmental surveillance and screening, red flags signaling a need for prompt referral, and recommendations, including appropriate testing. | Website |
| Physiologic Hearing Screening for Infants and Toddlers | This instructional package discusses the importance of periodic, physiologic hearing screening for infants and toddlers. It provides practical guidance for health care providers on how Otoacoustic Emissions (OAE) hearing screening can be conducted during well-child visits. | Website |
| Picto Selector | PECS was developed in 1985 as a unique augmentative/alternative communication intervention package for individuals with autism spectrum disorder and related developmental disabilities. First used at the Delaware Autistic Program, PECS has received worldwide recognition for focusing on the initiation component of communication. PECS does not require complex or expensive materials. It was created with families, educators, and resident care providers in mind, so is readily used in a range of settings. Select from 11,000 pictos and combine them into picto sheets. Fast search options and categories to select from. Create you're own pictos from photos and text. Use drag and drop to combine picto in sheets that visualizes daily tasks. Available in Dutch, French, English, Spanish, Catalan, German and Italian. | Website |
| Planning for the Transition to Kindergarten: Why it Matters and how to Support Success | The transition to kindergarten is a time that presents changing demands, expectations, and supports for children and their families. When children experience discontinuities between preschool and kindergarten, they may be at greater risk for academic failure and social adjustment problems. Thus, building and implementing a seamless kindergarten transition can make a significant difference for children's early education experience. | Document |
| Play | This self-study highlights the value and importance of play for all children in promoting opportunities to learn, practice and master skills in the areas of cognition, gross and fine motor development, speech and language development and social emotional development.Knowledge and Competency Framework Area - II.A: Creating Positive Learning Experiences (5.0 hr) and II.E: Promoting Creative Development (5.0 hr)CDA Content Area - II: Steps to advance children’s physical and intellectual development 🔊This course includes Audio and is accessible from a mobile device. For optimal performance, viewing from a computer or tablet is highly recommended. For ten clock hours on your Learning Record, please register and pay online at Develop. Then, complete a 500 word reflection paper and submit this document with your reflection. Please note: You have access to this document as view only. To enable editing, download the document. Click "file" then "download as" in the upper left-hand corner of this screen. This will give you the option to open the document as a Word doc on your own computer. Then, you can complete the information and email it to: credit@inclusivechildcare.org. *Disregard any directions regarding a final quiz. The only learning assessment needed is the reflection paper. | Course |
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