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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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| CLASP's Charting Progress for Babies in Child Care | CLASP's Charting Progress for Babies in Child Care project links research to policy ideas and examples that support the healthy growth and development of infants and toddlers in child care settings. The project provides resources to help states make the best decisions for infants and toddlers in child care. The foundation of the project is a policy framework comprised of four key principles describing what babies and toddlers in child care need and 15 recommendations for states to move forward. | Website |
| Cognitive Learning Begins at Birth: Take Part in Infants and Toddlers’ Brain Development | This article highlights tips and advice from experts engaging and applying cognitive practices to support early brain development. | Document |
| Como adaptar los juegos con cartas de matemáticas para las habilidades de cada niño | "Los juegos de cartas proporcionan una gran práctica con las diferentes combinaciones basicas para crear un número. Dominar estas combinaciones es la clave para la fluidez con los cálculos aritméticos. Estos juegos típicos de cartas aprendidos por los niños en la escuela o en casa son muy divertidos para los niños y por lo tanto se van a jugar múltiples veces creando una práctica muy significativa para ellos y pueden adaptarse a las habilidades matemáticas de cada niño conforme se van desarrollando." | Website |
| Cómo el juego promueve el desarrollo cognitivo (How Play Promotes Cognitive Development) | El juego promueve el desarrollo de una multitud de habilidades cognitivas. Cuando los niños participan en el juego y tienen la oportunidad de involucrarse plenamente en lo que están haciendo, desarrollan formas de pensar más sofisticadas y complejas. Play promotes the development of a multitude of cognitive skills. When children participate in play and have opportunities to become fully involved in what they are doing, and they develop more sophisticated and complex ways of thinking. | Tipsheet |
| Concerned About Development? How to Help Your Child | Information and practical tips to support parents who have concerns about their child's development. | Document |
| Connecticut Birth to Three | The Birth to Three System website offers a variety of resources ranging from eligibilty and referrals to information on laws and regulations. They also offer a number of programs. There are comprehensive programs throughout Connecticut that have been approved by the Birth to Three System to complete eligibility evaluations, and provide services and supports for families. Each program serves a specific set of towns, and can be selected by any family living in one of those towns. There are three programs that specialize in working with families whose children are deaf or hard of hearing: The American School for the Deaf, CREC-Soundbridge and NECHEAR. These three programs work with families from any Connecticut town. There are also a number of Autism-specific programs serving families in specific towns. Every Birth to Three program offers: evaluation in the home by trained professionals services provided where the child normally spends his day, such as his home, a child care setting, or local playgroup flexible scheduling of visits services that focus on helping the family to help their child within the family's daily life, culture, values, and priorities information in their native language unless it is clearly not feasible to do so. If a parent is deaf or blind, the mode of communication will be that which is normally used, such as Braille, sign language, or oral communication. a variety of trained staff who can help the family work on goals related to their child's needs and their family's priorities. All people working in Birth to Three programs meet personnel standards and are either a licensed or certified professional, or are supervised by a professional. | Website |
| Context beats quantity for teaching kids new words | Children learn words best when they hear them in a context that's understandable, a new study shows. This context is critical for understanding why some words may be easier for kids to learn than others. Findings of a recent study suggest that using words in fun, coherent activities is more important than simply talking more to children. | Website |
| Continuity of Care for Infants and Toddlers | In this Info mod, learners will identify the benefits of continuity of care and will examine three options for creating continuity of care in child care settings. | Info Module |
| Continuity of Care: Six Essential Program Practices | High-quality relationship-based care is central to optimal early brain development, emotional regulation, and learning (Center on the Developing Child, 2012). One of the Program for Infant/Toddler Care (PITC) essential program practices to promote this type of care is continuity of care (PITC, n.d.). Continuity of care practices support the development of secure attachments and strong positive relationships as well as a secure base for exploration and learning (Honig, 2002). Research shows that attachment security significantly contributes to children’s long-range social-emotional development and self-confidence (Sroufe, Egeland, Carlson & Collins, 2005) | Document |
| Coronavirus (COVID-19): How to Protect Babies and Toddlers | With communities reopening, wearing masks in public is even more important. Most states still have orders that require people to wear a mask in public, and the CDC issued an order requiring people to wear masks on all public transportation. But kids must be over age 2 to wear masks. So parents might wonder how they can help protect their babies and toddlers. Here are some tips from KidsHealth from Nemours. | Website |
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