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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gender-Expansive and Transgender Children: Books for Students | Gender-Expansive and Transgender Children: Books for Students | Document |
| Guidance in Choosing Developmental Screening Instruments | The Commonwealth Fund has released a new manual entitled Pediatric Developmental Screening: Understanding and Selecting Screening Instruments, by Dennis Drotar, Terry Stancin, and Paul Dworkin. It is based on a comprehensive review of scientific research and is meant to assist providers in selecting and using screening instruments that are appropriate for their practice settings. | Website |
| Hands On As We Grow | Resources to Find Lots of Activities for Kids | Website |
| Helping Children Make Transitions Between Activities: What Works Brief | Short training package from Center for Social Emotional Foundations of Early Learning provides trainers with the materials needed to conduct a short staff development program on transitions in the classroom. | Document |
| High Quality Child Care Promotes Healthy Development, School Readiness, and School Success | Decades of research has documented what is referred to as the “summer slide" – the impact of summer vacation’s learning loss on the educational achievement of children, particularly low-income children. The achievement gap is not really a result of “summer slide” alone but the cumulative effect that begins with school readiness. View this fact sheet for research and statistics on the importance of high-quality care and summer learning. | Document |
| How Does the ADA Relate to Child Care? | Child care is considered a public accommodation under the ADA and so must comply with the civil right mandates of access and non-discriminatory policies and practices for children and their families. This tip sheet covers expectations for child care programs under the ADA. | Tipsheet |
| How Play Promotes Cognitive Development (Cómo el juego promueve el desarrollo cognitivo) | El juego promueve el desarrollo de una multitud de habilidades cognitivas. Cuando los niños participan en el juego y tienen la oportunidad de participarse completamente en lo que están haciendo, desarrollan formas de pensar más sofisticadas y complejas. | Tipsheet |
| How Play Promotes Cognitive Development [Sida ay Ciyaartu Uhormariso Dhismaha Maskaxda] | Ciyaartu waxay siyaadisaa dhismaha iyo xirfado maskax oo kaladuwan. Markii ay caruurtu ciyaar kaqayb qaataan fursad buuxdana u helaan in ay sidey rabaan ugu mashquulaan waxa ay markaa samaynayaan, waxaa kusiyaada habab fikir sare oo qaabaysan. | Tipsheet |
| IDEA | This site was created to provide a "one-stop shop" for resources related to IDEA and its implementing regulations, released on August 3, 2006. | Website |
| Inclusion In After School Environments | This info module offers tips for planning and adapting after school environments to successfully include children with specal needs. | Info Module |
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