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| Resource Name | Description | Resource Type |
|---|---|---|
| Attachment in Early Care and Education Programs [Xoojinta Xiriirka Aas aasiga ah ee Caruurta Lagu Hayyo Xanaanada iyo Barnaamiijta Waxbarashada] | Korinnimada cunuga ee caafimaadka kusalaysan waxaa saamayn kuleh taayada iyo kutiirsanaanta xiriirka uu cunugu laleeyahay daryeel bixiyaha, ama ha ahaado waalid, ama qaraabo, ama daryeel bixiyaha xanaanada. Maadaama ay xiriirintu tahay aas aaska korinnimada iyo wax barashada, daryeel bixiyeyaasha xanaanada hore waxay door wayn ka ciyaaraan nolosha caruurta ay lashaqeeyaan. | Tipsheet |
| Attachment: An Important Beginning | This info module highlights the fact that during the first several years of a child’s life the relationships that are formed with others establish the foundations that support the physical, social, emotional and cognitive domains of human development. | Info Module |
| Attachment: The Importance of Relationships for Healthy Development | This course focuses on the importance of attachment and the role that relationships play in the healthy development of young children. This course is only accessible on a desktop browser with Flash enabled. 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 |
| Attachment: What Works? | A new brief from the Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning (CSEFEL), What Works Brief #24 - Attachment: What Works? (2011), by Donna Wittmer, explores the importance of infants and toddlers experiencing secure attachment relationships with the key adults in their lives, explains secure and insecure attachment, notes cultural differences in attachment, and provides specific strategies to promote children's secure attachments. | Document |
| Autism in Toddlers | About Autism in Toddlers is a tool for families, professionals, or anyone interested in learning about autism spectrum disorder (ASD). | Document |
| Babies and Pacifier Use | This Brush Up on Oral Health Newsletter from the Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center has (ECLKC) has some useful information and tips to share with family members on the use of pacifiers. | Document |
| Babies Make the Link Between Vocal and Facial Emotion | The ability of babies to differentiate emotional expressions appears to develop during their first six months. Researchers from the University of Geneva have just provided an initial answer to this question, measuring the ability of six-month-old babies to make a connection between a voice and the emotional expression on a face. | Document |
| Babies Prefer to Hear "Baby Talk" From Other Babies | When babies hear sounds from other babies, they smile and move their mouths, almost as if they know this is a sound that they could try to make themselves. | Website |
| Babies Use Their Tongues to Understand Speech | A study from the University of British Columbia established the first direct link between babies' oral motor skills (the movement of the tongue, lips, and other parts of the mouth) and their ability to understand speech. Read more to learn that when infants can't move their mouths to mimic sounds, they have a harder time processing those sounds. | Website |
| Babies' babbles reflect their own involvement in language development | Babies' repetitive babbles, such as 'dada' or 'baba,' are primarily motivated by infants' ability to hear themselves talk, say researchers. Infants with profound hearing loss who received cochlear implants to improve their hearing soon babbled as often as their hearing peers, allowing them to catch up developmentally. | Website |
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