Nutrition, Health, and Safety for Young Children: Promoting Wellness - Softcover

Sorte, Joanne; Daeschel, Inge; Amador, Carolina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131381202 ISBN 13: 9780131381209

Publisher: Pearson College Div, 2010

Synopsis

Nutrition, Health, and Safety for Young Children This book provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the nutrition, health, and safety needs of young children from birth through 8 years of age. The book is designed to give future teachers practical, applied, easy-to-understand information that will prepare them to serve young children in the family child care, childcare center, preschool and early primary school setting. Students w... Full description

About this title

About the Author:

Joanne Sorte has been an early childhood professional for more than 30 years. She earned her bachelor of arts degree in child development and family life, and her master of science degree in human development and family sciences at Oregon State University. She and began her early childhood professional experiences as a home visitor for the Home Base program in Yakima, Washington. She then directed the preschool program for Lower Columbia College in Longview, Washington and worked as the family services coordinator for Head Start. These experiences inspired her commitment to serving families from diverse backgrounds, while raising three children with her husband, provided her many opportunities to experience the joys of child development and parenting. She taught in preschool settings for several years, until accepting a position on the faculty of Human Development & Family Sciences at OSU as Director of the Child Development Laboratory in the Hallie Ford Center for Healthy Children and Families. She is also director of the OSU Oregon Head Start Prekindergarten Program and an active member of the Oregon Head Start Association. Recognizing the value of the laboratory preschool as a formative experience for children, families, and students, she guided the evolution of a blended early education program model where children from low-income families, children with special needs, and children from the general community attend preschool together in the early education laboratory. She directs the practicum experience for students in early childhood development and education, supervises graduate students, and facilitates research on child development and wellness. She has coauthored an intervention program with Inge Daeschel called Health in Action: 5 Steps to Good Health. She enjoys advocating for education and being active with her family.

Inge Daeschel is licensed and registered dietitian who is board certified as a specialist in pediatric nutrition. She received her bachelor of science degree in foods and nutrition science at Plattsburgh State University in New York. She completed her dietetic internship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and received her masters of science degree in nutrition science from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. She worked at Duke University Medical Center, first as pediatric dietitian clinician and later as assistant chief clinical dietitian. This position was instrumental in developing her interest in helping families understand the nutritional needs of their children.

She and her family relocated to Oregon where she worked at the Corvallis Clinic and later accepted a faculty position as instructor in the department of Human Development and Family Sciences at Oregon State University where she is health and nutrition services coordinator of the OSU Child Development Laboratory and the OSU Oregon Head Start Prekindergarten Program. She is also is a nutrition consultant providing services to an area hospital, two WIC programs, and the Head Start and Migrant Head Start program. Her expertise in feeding children is based on personal as well as professional experience, gained raising four children, including one with multiple food allergies. She has coauthored with Joanne Sorte an intervention program called Health in Action: 5 Steps to Good Health, which promotes wellness by providing focused messages that address nutrition and physical activity in early childhood programs.

Carolina Amador, M.D., is a board-certified pediatrician. She received a bachelor of education degree in Speech Pathology at University of Georgia in Athens. She earned her medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta and completed her residency in pediatrics at West Virginia Universit

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About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson College Div
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0131381202
• ISBN 13: 9780131381209
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 615