Creative Resources for Infants and Toddlers - Softcover

Herr, Judy; Swim, Terri

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0766803376 ISBN 13: 9780766803374

Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning, 2000

Synopsis

Responding in a warm, loving, and responsive manner to a crying infant or playing pat-a-cake with a young toddler both exemplify ways that caregivers and parents promote healthy brain development. With this in mind, Creative Resources for Infants and Toddlers is written for you?This comprehensive book focuses on the growth of the whole child covering all areas of development: physical, language and communication, cognitive, social, and emotional. To support, enhance, and promote the child's development in all of these areas, this unique book includes 280 specially-designed activities for infants and toddlers. Developmental benchmarks are broken down by monthly increments, birth through twenty-four months.-- Recipes-- Songs-- Fingerplays-- Suggested toys and equipment-- Recommended list of children's books

About this title

Review:

Introduction. Promoting Optimal Development in Infants. Birth to Three Months. Four to Six Months. Seven to Nine Months. Ten to Twelve Months. Promoting Optimal Development in Toddlers. Thirteen to Eighteen Months. Nineteen to Twenty-Four Months. Twenty-Five Months to Thirty Months. Thirty-One to Thirty-Six Months. References. Appendix.

About the Author:

Judy Herr, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Early Childhood Education at the University of Wisconsin–Stout. Dr. Herr is a member of numerous early childhood organizations such as NAEYC, and has held leadership positions in these organizations. She is also a frequent lecturer at early childhood conferences and seminars and has published many articles and books on early childhood topics.

About this edition

• Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0766803376
• ISBN 13: 9780766803374
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 369