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Fire Safety in Child Care: Special Considerations for Children with Disabilities Practical advice for implementing intentional fire safety in childcare settings to make individualized accommodations and ensure the safety of children with disabilities. Tipsheet
Group Time--Do you Love it or Dread it: Part One There are many areas of programming where challenging behaviors occur. Group or circle time is often an activity where children can struggle to stay tuned in and adults can be frustrated by not meeting their goals for it. Listen to this podcasts for creative ideas on how to accomplish your goals with group time by thinking outside the box. Podcast
Guidelines for Use of Deep Pressure and Weighted Items in Early Childhood Programs How deep touch pressure can be beneficial to individuals with high levels of anxiety or with heightened arousal levels. Tipsheet
Guidelines for Use of Deep Pressure and Weighted Items in Early Childhood Programs This info module gives an overview of deep touch pressure and the use of weighted item.  Deep touch pressure is a form of tactile sensory input which has a relaxing, calming and organizing effect on the nervous system. It can be provided through firm holding, hugging, squeezing and the use of weighted items. Deep touch pressure can be beneficial to individuals with high levels of anxiety or with heightened arousal levels. Info Module
Guiding Behavior Through Environment This tip sheet offers strategies for caregivers to avoid or reduce behavior challenges through intentional design of the classroom environment. Tipsheet
Helping Children Understand Emotions When Wearing Masks  From The National Center for Pyramid Model Innovations (NCPMI): "Young children look for emotional cues from caregivers to help interpret the environment and rely on their caregiver’s facial expressions, tone of voice, and body posture to identify and understand emotions. Here are tips and ideas for helping children identify emotions when your face, your most expressive feature, is covered by a mask. Use these strategies to let children know that behind the mask, a kind and warm expression is still there!" Document
Helping Toddlers Understand Emotion The strategy of helping toddlers understand emotion may reduce behavioral problems later on, finds a federally funded study led by a Michigan State University researcher. The study, published in the September 2015 issue of the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, could ultimately help those most in need. Toddlers with higher risk, specifically those with more behavioral problems and from the most disadvantaged families, benefited most from being taught about emotion by their mothers. Document
Herramientas para la caja de herramientas: Estrategias para hacer frente a comportamientos desafiantes (Tools for the Toolbox: Strategies to Meet Challenging Behaviors) Explore herramientas para trabajar con niños que tienen comportamientos desafiantes, incluidas adaptaciones ambientales y programáticas. Explore estrategias de orientación específicas que apoyen las necesidades sensoriales, de desarrollo y de temperamento de todos los niños.Área del marco de conocimientos y competencias - II.C: Promoción del desarrollo social y emocional  Área de contenido de CDA - III: Formas positivas de apoyar el desarrollo social y emocional de los niños  Course
How to Discipline Toddlers As they test their independence, setting and enforcing limits lays the groundwork for good behavior. Document
How to Handle Tantrums and Meltdowns In order to help a kid who’s having a meltdown or tantrum, parents need to understand what’s causing it. This is hard because it could be fear, anger, frustration, or something else. Here is a helpful article from the Child Mind Institute. Document
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