Emotional Connections: How Relationships Guide Early Learning: Instructor's Guide

Translates research on cognitive, social, and emotional development in the early years into the language of daily caregiving and teaching. This book gives trainers the information and tools they need to teach infant-toddler caregivers how to build responsive relationships with very young children and their families.

Perry M. Butterfield, M.A., is retired faculty, Univ. of Colorado Medical School, Dept. of Psychiatry, where she served as Senior Research Associate to the Program for Early Developmental Studies.

Carole A. Martin, PhD, has taught undergraduate and graduate courses at Colorado College, Rutgers University, Trenton State College and the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the departments of psychology, human development and education. She directed a university laboratory daycare center and developed an interdisciplinary graduate training program for infant specialists.

Arleen Pratt Prairie, MEd. has taught Early Childhood Education in City Colleges of Chicago for twenty-five years. In her teaching she focuses on preschool education, infant and toddler care and brain development in the early years.