Resources

Statement of the Advisory Committee on Services for Families with Infants and Toddlers
     This document reflects the suggestions and comments made by the Advisory Committee for the design of the Early Head Start Program. It is intended to guide communities' decisions about services to America's youngest children and their families.
     To order, fax an HSIPC order form to F: 703-683-5769 or send an email to puborder@headstartinfo.org.

Head Start Facilities Manual
     The manual is a tool for grantees and delegate agencies to assess their existing facilities, make improvements, and secure space for expansion. It provides information, checklists, and worksheets for facilities assessment and planning. It also includes chapters on assessment, compliance issues, facilities design, and funding, complete with checklists and/or other resource materials.
     To order, fax an HSIPC order form to F: 703-683-5769 or send an email to puborder@headstartinfo.org.

Assessing and Treating Infants and Young Children with Severe Difficulties in Relating and Communicating
     This breakthrough publication will help practitioners and parents treat and understand young children diagnosed with Multisystem Developmental Disorder (MSDD), Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD), and Autistic Disorder. The contributors, national leaders in this extraordinarily challenging infant/family practice area, stress the importance of both indivi-dualizing and integrating evaluation and treatment. They offer practical strategies from a range of disciplines on how to:

• Build an effective working alliance with families;
  
• Engage young children, and help them connect to others;
  
• Address specific sensory processing deficits; and
  
• Design a therapeutic "village" to help raise young children with severe difficulties.

     To order, contact ZERO TO THREE at T: 202-638-1144 or visit their Web site at http://www.zerotothree.org. The cost of this publication is $10.00.

Can They Hope to Feel Safe Again? The Impact of Community Violence on Infants, Toddlers, Their Parents and Practitioners
     This is an emotionally charged booklet with a powerful message for all those working with young victims of violence. The publication, taken from the edited transcript of the final plenary session of ZERO TO THREE's 1991 Seventh Biennial National Training Institute, summarizes the presentations of three compelling speakers: Clementine Barfield of Save our Sons and Daughters (SOSAD); Elizabeth Simpson of the PALS Program; and Betsy McAlister Groves of the Child Witness to Violence Project.
     To order, contact ZERO TO THREE at T: 202-638-1144 or visit their Web site at http://www.zerotothree.org. The cost of this publication is $5.00.

Caring for Infants and Toddlers in Groups: Developmentally Appropriate Practice
     This popular guide is designed to help caregivers, program directors, coordinators, administrators, trainers, licensers, families and leaders in the field of early care and education recognize the special knowledge and skills needed to offer a nurturing group care environment to very young children.
     Caring for Infants and Toddlers in Groups provides assistance in meeting the needs of each individual child; recognizing early developmental stages; achieving necessary health and safety standards; creating good relationships; developing training and mentoring programs; linking with other community-based service systems; providing continuity of care; and being sensitive to cultural and linguistic needs.
     To order, contact ZERO TO THREE at T: 202-638-1144 or visit their Web site at http://www.zerotothree.org. The cost of this publication is $17.00.

Learning Language and Loving It: A Guide for Promoting Children's Social and Language Development in Early Childhood Settings
     Designed for early childhood educators, special educators, and speech/language pathologists, this guidebook from The Hanen Centre (Toronto, Canada) addresses the full range of topics which affect children's language learning in an early childhood setting. This book shows how children, especially those delayed or at risk of delay in social and/or language skills, can be helped to participate in those everyday interactions with adults and peers that are so critical to the development of language. It also describes how adults can enhance children's language skills (appropriate to children's language levels), gives "dos and don'ts" for professionals, and provides two observation guides for evaluation of children's social, play, and language skills.
     To order, contact ZERO TO THREE at T: 202-638-1144 or visit their Web site at http://www.zerotothree.org. The cost of this publication is $35.00.


The Child with Special Needs: Encouraging Intellectual and Emotional Growth
     Written for parents of children with developmental challenges and professionals who work with these children and their families, this volume presents Greenspan and Wieder's "individual-difference" approach to understanding children with special needs and their developmental approach to intervention. The authors argue that because each child has a unique nervous system and a uniquely developing mind, parents and professionals must move beyond syndromes or "labels" to understand an individual child's: 1) biology; 2) interactive patterns with parents, family members and others; and 3) family patterns, culture, and the larger environment. Together, these factors will influence how a child masters fundamental emotional skills, which underlie all advanced thinking, problem solving, and coping.
     Covering all kinds of disabilities, the book describes how to create an individual profile of a child's developmental level and functional abilities, including responses to touch and sound, auditory processing, motor planning, and perceptual motor abilities in order to develop an appropriate learning program. The authors offer detailed guidelines for observation, illustrated with vignettes and "crib sheets."
     To order, contact ZERO TO THREE at T: 202-638-1144 or visit their Web site at http://www.zerotothree.org. The cost of this publication is $27.00 (hardcover).

The Emotional Life of the Toddler
     Any parent with a toddler knows that a child of this age is a whirlwind of explosive, contradictory, and ever-changing emotions. Dr. Lieberman offers an in-depth examination of the varied and intense emotional life of children from ages one to three. Drawing on her decades of research and clinical practice, she addresses a multitude of commonly asked questions and issues, such as, "Why is 'no' often the favorite response of the toddler?"
     To order, contact ZERO TO THREE at T: 202-638-1144 or visit their Web site at http://www.zerotothree.org. The cost of this publication is $12.00.

Me, Myself and I: How Children Build Their Sense of Self (18-36 months)
     Written by ZERO TO THREE's President, Kyle Pruett, Me, Myself and I is an engaging guide to the growth of competence, personality, and self-image in early childhood and the critical role of emotional development in shaping the outcome. Richly illustrated with warm, humorous, "real life" vignettes, Me, Myself and I is filled with proven strategies to help parents set their child on a lifelong path to confidence, joy and accomplishment.
     To order, contact ZERO TO THREE at T: 202-638-1144 or visit their Web site at http://www.zerotothree.org. The cost of this publication is $19.95.

The Nurturing Father
     Kyle Pruett describes the important impact on children and parents when the father increases his caregiver role in the family. This book provides an intensive, long-term look at 17 "father-nurturing" families with compelling, intimate accounts of three of them.
     To order, contact ZERO TO THREE at T: 202-638-1144 or visit their Web site at http://www.zerotothree.org. The cost of this publication is $24.00.

Learning and Growing Together: Understanding and Supporting Your Child's Development
by Claire Lerner and Amy Laura Dombro
     This parenting book on child development will empower parents and caregivers to become their own best resource by helping them think in new ways. It contains personal vignettes, reflective questions, and discussion points. The book offers the child's point of view, as well as the parent's and caregiver's. It is easy to read, an excellent supplement to clinical practice, and a good resource for group discussion. Note: One copy of this publication was sent to all EHS programs at no cost through grants from the Gerber Foundation and the Hummingbird Foundation. An additional 15 copies plus a users' guide will be provided at no cost to each EHS site using funds provided by a private family foundation, the Louis Berkowitz Family Foundation, Inc., in Long Island, New York.
      To order, contact ZERO TO THREE at T: 202-638-1144 or visit their Web site at http://www.zerotothree.org. The cost of this publication is $10.00 for single copies and $8.00 for bulk orders of nine or more.

Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs (revised edition)
     Expanding from the core ideas of the influential 1987 edition, this volume spells out more fully the principles underlying developmentally appropriate practice and guidelines for classroom decision making. The new edition is explicit about the importance of the social and cultural context in considering appropriateness of practices. For all engaged in the care and education of infants and toddlers, and preschoolers, this book offers an overview of each period of development and extensive examples of practices that are appropriate and inappropriate with children in that age group.
     To order, contact NAEYC at T: 202-232-8777 (ext. 604), or contact their Web site at http://www.naeyc.org. The cost of this publication is $9.00.

Helping Young Children Develop Through Play: A Practical Guide for Parents, Caregivers, and Teachers
     This publication is an easy-to-read overview of why play is so important to children's learning. It contains detailed, practical suggestions on how adults can foster play with infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and school-agers. Chapters include: the importance of play; what adults can do to support play; helping babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and primary age children play; and making nonplay more playful.
     To order, contact NAEYC at T: 202-232-8777 (ext. 604), or contact their Web site at http://www.naeyc.org. The cost of this publication is $5.00.

 

Early Head Start Resources

Papers
The following resources are the first in a series of papers designed to collect and disseminate information on issues of critical importance to the Early Head Start community and to meet the challenges of planning and implementing high quality services to expectant parents and families with infants and toddlers.

1) EHS Program Implementation: Start-Up Planning;

2) EHS Home-Based Program Option: Recruiting, Training and Retaining Qualified Personnel;

3) Giving Children the Earliest Head Start: Developing an Individualized Approach to High Quality Services for Pregnant Women (Due out in September 2000);

4) Developmental Screening, Assessment and Evaluation in Early Head Start Programs: Critical Links for Curriculum Development (Due out in September 2000);

5) Developmentally Appropriate and Creative Socialization in Homebased Programs. This paper features program strategies and is due out in September 2000, and

6) EHS Program Strategies: Staff Development.This paper contains profiles of five Early Head Start programs illustrating the creative and thoughtful ways that EHS programs have demonstrated their commitment to staff development.  

Consumers' Guide to Professional Development Resources 1999 edition
This guide is organized under the framework of the Head Start Program Performance Standards and includes a complete information review of the resource material, including recommendations from the field. The Consumers' Guide will be updated each year. The 2000 edition is to be released in fall 2000.
The materials are available through the EHS NRC Web site at http://www.ehsnrc.org under the Resource Section or Current Events or by calling T: 202-638-1144.

 

SAVE THIS DATE!!!!

January 23-27, 2001
Hilton Washington and Towers
Washington, DC

The Annual Birth to Three Institute For Programs Serving Pregnant Women And Families with Infants and Toddlers 2001 Institute Features Include:

• Cutting-edge tracked sessions in areas such as:
  • Management
    
  • Child Development
    
  • Professional Development
    
  • Prenatal Care, Health and Nutrition
    
  • Community and Family Partnerships
• Enlightening Field Based Presentations & Poster Symposia
  
• Exciting Pre-Institute Sessions
  
• Individual & Group Training and Technical Assistance Consultations with Experts
  
• Great Opportunities to Network with Colleagues

For more information, please call Everett Shupe or Adrienne Sparger at Early Head Start National Resource Center, T: 202-638-1144.