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This innovative, three-part training series broadcast to thousands of early childhood professionals across the nation is now available in this easy-to-use DVD set. The set contains the entire footage of the three sessions as well as ground-breaking video clips that demonstrate clearly the concepts being presented in the sessions.

This video opens with an overview of language development and communication during infancy. Starting at birth, infants actively build connections between sounds, gestures, and meaning. As infants grow, their biologically built-in potential to learn language unfolds. The video underscores that this development is rooted in the child's family and culture. Through rich examples of infant-caregiver communication and infants' early language, it illustrates ten strategies caregivers can use to enhance communication and language development.

Concepts developed from research and field experience are presented to help ease a child into a new child care setting by using time, space and indirect contact and by reading the child's cues. The influence of the child's developmental level and the crucial role of the parent in the separation process are discussed. Also included with this DVD is a DVD Booklet.

This video presents the importance of responsive caregiving and explores a process for getting in tune with infants and toddlers in a child care setting. The process consists of studying child development and temperamental differences in infants and toddlers; learning about the children's families and their cultures; developing self-awareness; and mastering the responsive process of watch, ask, and adapt. Jeree Pawl, Ph.D., and Magda Gerber, M.A., are featured. Also included with this DVD is a DVD Booklet.

The video In Our Hands focuses attention on the harmful effects of poor quality child care on infants and identifies critically important steps our society needs to take to improve infant care. The video is designed to promote quality child care and is divided into four sections that describe the fundamental needs of infants and toddlers who are cared for outside the home: Close, Caring Relationships, Health and Safety, Connection to Family and Knowledgeable, Responsive Caregivers. Also included with this DVD is a DVD Booklet. There is not a Spanish version of this video.

Infants begin learning through simple sensorimotor experiences and move toward figuring things out in their heads. This video explores the constant quest for knowledge of infants and toddlers. It depicts six major kinds of discoveries children make in the first three years of life and offers guidelines on how to support early learning. Also included with this DVD is a DVD Booklet.

Caregiving routines are presented from the infant's perspective. Also demonstrated are appropriate health, safety, and environmental practices for each routine (feeding, diapering, and napping). The content of the video emphasizes that such caregiving routines are opportunities for individualized, responsive caregiving that can facilitate each child's development. Also included with this DVD is a DVD Booklet.

In infant caregiving caregivers have to provide emotional support to both the child and the parent. In this video parents speak candidly about their concerns, and caregivers discuss ways to provide assistance. The video shows how caregivers can come to better understand the normal behaviors of parents of infants in care, including highly emotional behavior and conflicting feelings about caregiver/child relationships. It also suggests how caregiver displays of competence, honesty, and understanding provide the base for family support. Also included with this DVD is a DVD Booklet.