This NAEYC Digital Resource, Watching, Wondering, and Learning Together: Best Practices with Infants and Toddlers, covers a wide range of topics of relevance to a diverse group of readers. The articles in this collection focus on the unique characteristics and needs of infants and toddlers and the approaches to supporting their development and learning. We hope that these articles will foster individual reflection and collegial conversations in this country and around the world.  

To make sure all toddlers in your early childhood program are participating, learning, and thriving, you need to master the art of choosing and using effective adaptations. Practical solutions are in CARA's Kit: a guidebook and CD-ROM brimming with step-by-step ideas for adapting environments, activities, and materials for children 18 to 36 months.

This guidebook speaks gives practitioners explicit guidance on the six-step process for planning and implementing adaptations and putting them into practice. Learn how to improve toddlers' engagement and participation through adapting the environment, daily schedule, activities for routines, materials, and instructional strategies and requirements. This kit includes a multimedia CD-ROM with everything you need to make adaptations work. From Brookes Publishing. 

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.

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.