Enhance child outcomes by weaving best practices in mental health into early childhood services. This accessible text from more than a dozen top experts gives early childhood professionals a primer on key issues in infant mental health and research-based guidelines for practice. From Brookes Publishing.

Quality child development programs for infants and toddlers tailor their care to meet the particular characteristics and developmental needs of this age group. This collection of engaging articles from NAEYC’s journal Young Children provides relevant and current information for anyone who works with or in support of infants and toddlers and their families. Authors offer practical, research-based strategies and observations of these very young children in action. The book includes study guides with many of the articles, as well as a comprehensive resource list.

This book is part of NAEYC’s best-selling Spotlight series—great resources for the college classroom and for professional development.

Developmentally appropriate practice is so fundamental to the early childhood field that all new educators need a sound grasp from the very start. While DAP’s basic concepts aren’t difficult or arcane, they can be understood wrongly or incompletely—and often are! This engaging little book describes the core concepts and makes them meaningful to everyday practice for teachers of infants and toddlers. College instructors, directors, and trainers will find this an invaluable tool for introducing learners to the foundation of the early childhood field.

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Follow the milestones of average child development from a child's perspective through motor, language, and social skills from birth to 8 years. This poster (18"x24", laminated) is based on NAEYC's brochure “Toys: Tools for Learning”. From Learning ZoneXpress.

Learn the milestones of average child development from a child’s perspective. Based on the NAEYC brochure “Toys: Tools for Learning”, this tablet (8½”x11", 50 sheets per tablet) covers motor, language, and social skills from birth to eight years old. English front, Spanish back. From Learning ZoneXpress.

Interlaced with real-life classroom video, this powerful DVD offers practical ideas and experienced insights from seasoned professionals who speak with the passion and perspective that can only come from years of working with directors, teachers, young children, and their families. Provides a rich platform for staff development and training sessions that will inspire, motivate, teach, provoke new thinking, and generate lively discussions.

Includes sections on:

• What do babies need from caregivers?
• Creating safe environments that meet evolving needs
• Learning to communicate with infants
• The importance of relationships
• What are the qualities that make an exceptional infant teacher?
• How do you know when an infant/toddler classroom is working?
• How do ratios and group sizes affect the quality of infant care?
• What does curriculum mean for infant care?

From Child Care Exchange.

Watch a preview here. 

This fascinating and highly acclaimed DVD explains how a parent's or caregiver's earliest interactions influence a child's brain development. Ten Things Every Child Needs features child development experts and prominent brain researchers including Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, Dr. Bruce Perry, and Dr. Barbara Bowman. From Brazelton.

Our Family of Films shows how the rewards and pleasures triumph over the often challenging realities when introducing reading and books into the lives of babies. This DVD contains three videos:

• “Reading with Babies” (18 min.) demonstrates the importance of reading with very young children and provides excellent examples of ways to make reading an adventure that brings parents and children closer.
• “Leyendo con bebés” (18 min.) is the Spanish version of “Reading with Babies.”
• "The Read to Me Program" video (30 min.) follows one Read to Me Program with teen mothers and their babies in Brooklyn, New York as they participate in a series of six workshops that brings together parents, babies, and books in important ways. 

From the Read to Me Program.

Touchpoints is a three-part guide that offers keen insights for parents and caregivers of infants and toddlers. In volume one Dr. T. Berry Brazelton addresses the common concerns of expectant and new parents. Volumes two and three guide parents through their infant or toddler’s physical, emotional, and behavioral development. Essential viewing for both parents and caregivers. 132 min. From Brazelton.

The Infant CPR poster (laminated, 18"x24") features step-by-step instructions for conducting CPR on infants under one year old. Photographs and text clearly explain how to safely resuscitate an infant. From Learning ZoneXpress.