Infants in Child Care

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20 Clock Hours  / 2.0 CEUs for CDA renewal              

Course fee for one student — $50.00

Written by Clairece Feagin, 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.

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Chapters cover: Basic Elements of Infant Care; Motor and Cognitive Development During the First Year; Social and Behavioral Issues; Playing with Infants

14 hours in child development

1 hour in language development

1 hour in nutrition

4 hours in curriculum development

(8 hours in teacher/child interaction - these hours overlap with curriculum, language development, and child development)

Topics covered in this course:

1. The 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.