Infants in Child Care

20 Clock Hours

 

Infants in Child Care

Course NumberAvailable in these Course Formats*Clock HoursGeneric CEUsTuitionAdd to Cart
ICC-13ABook Course (paper)202.0$52.00
ICC-45APDF-Course (electronic)202.0$52.00
ICC-67A

Book Course (paper) +

Quick-Start First Chapter**

202.0$55.50

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Infants in Child Care Course Description:

Infants in Child Care will help you create an environment that promotes infants’ motor, cognitive, emotional and social development. Collection of appropriate games and activities for infants included. See the course topics listed below for more information on what is covered.

The course fee entitles one person to receive the clock hours (and CEUs for CDA renewal) granted by this course (assuming you pass each lesson/chapter with a 70% or better). Once you have completed the course and mailed (most courses may be faxed) in your answers to us, you can expect to receive your certificate within 1-3 weeks (depending on the grading you choose).  Click for grading options

Attention Wisconsin Students: for more information:   Wisconsin

Chapter/Lesson Titles: Basic Elements of Infant Care; Motor and Cognitive Development During the First Year; Social and Behavioral Issues; Playing with Infants

Topics covered in Infants in Child Care:
  1. Appropriate curriculum for infant day care facilities
  2. Characteristics of high-quality infant day care facilities (space, furnishing, equipment, staff qualifications, staff-child interactions)
  3. How to organize an infant day care facility for safety, convenience, and efficiency
  4. Feeding infants
  5. Understanding and meeting infants' nutritional needs
  6. Safety for infants, including a discussion of SIDS
  7. Relationship between infant day care facility and parents, including discussion of parents' separation anxiety
  8. Motor and cognitive development during the first year of life
  9. Social and emotional development during the first year of life
  10. Language development during the first year of life
  11. Adults' role in facilitating infants' development through play and routine care
  12. Ways to match activities to infants' developmental needs
  13. Specific activities for interactive play to promote sensory, motor, language, cognitive, social and emotional development during the different stages of infancy.

Student comments on Infants in Child Care:

"Just want to let you know that Care Courses [Child Development and Guidance, Toddlers in Child Care, Principles of Child Development and Learning and Infants in Child Care] is great!!! I get my books mailed to me in a timely manner and the instructions are very thorough and easy to understand!! You guys are the best!" - Middlesex, New Jersey

 

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