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Fear and Anxiety: An Age by Age Guide to Common Fears, The Reasons for Each, and How to Manage Them This helpful resource breaks down childhood fears by ages and then explains them. Website
First Things First: Parent Kit From the day a child is born, the care, attention, love and support they experience lays the foundation for their future. This digital Parent Kit is here to help you meet the challenges of being a parent and do your best in supporting the healthy development of your baby, toddler or preschooler. You'll find information and resources on child development, health and safety, quality child care and school readiness. Website
First Words Project FIRST WORDS Project website is a model early identification and intervention program based in the Department of Communication Disorders at Florida State University. This project uses the evaluation tool developed by Wetherby and Prizant (2001), the Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scales- Developmental Profile (CSBS-DP). The purpose of the CSBS-DP is twofold: first, for early identification of children who have or are at-risk for developing a communication impairment; and second, to monitor changes in a child's communication, expressive speech, and symbolic behavior over time. This site contains recent convention handouts from this project, the infant/toddler checklist with scoring instructions and cutoffs. This site also includes a links area. Website
Five Essentials to Meaningful Play Play is how children learn and develop. This article discusses five essential for meaningful play that will create meaningful memories for children. Website
Fostering Healthy Social & Emotional Development in Young Children - Tips for Early Childhood Teachers and Providers "Social and emotional development involves several interrelated areas of development, including social interaction, emotional awareness, and self-regulation.” Here is a helpful PDF from the U.S. Department of Education. Document
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) on Newborn Hearing, Screening and Testing This site offers a FAQ sheet with information on when an infant should be screened for hearing loss, what happens if an infant does not pass the hearing screening, how to find resources for infants with hearing loss, what false positives are, what an Auditory Brainstem Response test is, what an Otoacoustic Emissions is, and general information about infant hearing. Website
Frère Jacques, are you sleeping? Virtually all new parents quickly discover that a lullaby will in fact help an infant unwind, but they might be surprised to learn that babies aren’t fussy about the language. Researchers at Harvard’s Music Lab have determined that American infants relaxed when played lullabies that were unfamiliar and in a foreign language.   Website
Games for Babies "It’s never too early to start playing games to help your child reach their sensory, communication, feeding, and motor milestones."  Here are some fun suggestions from Pathways on games for babies. They are organized by age group! Website
Get Ready to Read Get Ready to Read! (GRTR!) is a national initiative to build the early literacy skills of preschool-age children. The initiative provides an easy-to-administer, research-based screening tool to early childhood educators, child care providers, and parents in order to help them prepare all children to learn to read and write. GRTR!'s program vision is that all preschool children will have the skills they need to learn to read when they enter school. This Web site is a part of NCLD's initiative to provide parents, educators, health-care professional and advocated with information to help build early literacy skills by integrating emergent literacy screening and learning activities into routine early childhood education, child-care and parenting practices. A newsletter is available to subscribe to with tips on early literacy, information, and resources for parents and teachers. Website
Getting In Tune Creating Nurturing Relationships With Infants And Toddlers This video from the Far West Laboratory Center for Child and Family Studies highlights the importance of getting in tune with infants and toddlers.
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