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Materials and assistance for childcare professionals, and those they serve, including info modules, tip sheets, documents, helpful URLs and self study courses.
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| Resource Name | Description | Resource Type |
|---|---|---|
| 5 Steps for Brain-Building Serve and Return | Child-adult relationships that are responsive and attentive--with lots of back and forth interactions--build a strong foundation in a child's brain for all future learning and development. This is called "serve and return," and it takes two to play! Follow these 5 steps to practice serve and return with your child. | Website |
| 5 Tips for Baby Conversations | Why should you talk to a baby? Because young children need to hear language in order to learn it. This article highlights evidence-based practices for supporting speech, language, and vocabulary development in very young children. | Website |
| 5 Tips for Baby’s First Halloween: Fun not Frightful | Halloween can easily be an overwhelming holiday for the littlest trick-or-treaters. This article contains helpful ideas to help infants and toddlers have fun. | Document |
| 5 ways screen time can benefit children and families | The AAP recommends five ways for parents and young children to use media positively. | Document |
| 7 Secrets to Toddler Discipline | Just saying “no” doesn’t always work. How to get your child to live and learn -- and not lose your cool in the process. | Document |
| 8 Things to Remember About Child Development | Experiences in the earliest years of life form the foundation of brain architecture, for better or for worse. Learning, behavior, and health across the lifespan are all built on that foundation. | Website |
| 89 Percent of Parents Would Have Emotionally Healthier Kids If They Stopped This 1 Habit | Researchers found a connection between parents who stopped to interact with devices such as phones, tablets, or laptops during time with their children and those children's behavioral problems, including hyperactivity, whining, and tantrums. | Document |
| A Guide to Developmental Milestones, Red Flags, Early Intervention and Inclusion | This video, produced for the Somali community, addresses developmental milestones for children and red flags for developmental delays as well as covering the topics of early identification and early intervention. This video also contains interviews with Somali parents of children who have special needs and an interview with a Somali physician. | Website |
| A Health Professional's Guide to Pediatric Oral Health Management | These modules provide health professionals with information to help them prevent oral diseases, which still afflict many U.S. children, especially children from families with low incomes, children in certain minority groups, and children with special health care needs. The modules assist health professionals in performing an oral screening to identify infants and children at increased risk for oral health problems, offering referrals to oral health professionals, and providing parents with anticipatory guidance. | Document |
| A Universal Checklist for Early Intervention | This Practice Guide from TRACE (Tracking, Referral, and Assessment Center for Excellence) provides a universal checklist for identifying infants and toddlers that may be eligible for early intervention. The checklist was specifically developed to facilitate and streamline the identification of potentially eligible children without the need to administer screening or developmental tests and was designed to be used by primary referral sources to make referrals to early intervention. | Document |
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