Learning and Growing Together: Understanding and Supporting Your Child's Development - Softcover

Lerner, Claire; Dombro, Amy Laura; Whitaker, Ross; Levine, Karen

9780943657059: Learning and Growing Together: Understanding and Supporting Your Child's Development

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0943657059 ISBN 13: 9780943657059

Publisher: Zero to Three, 2000

Contains several tip sheets, giving child-care professionals ideas for putting Learning & Growing Together concepts into practice to improve their program's and staff's ability to support families. Each tip sheet aims to assist staff working in diverse settings and roles, including center-based settings, home visits, and staff development.

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About the Author:

Amy Laura Dombro is the author of numerous articles and books on infant/toddler and family child care. She has extensive experience training Head Start and child care staff, and consults for national organizations. Ms. Dombro was a member of the advisory committee on Services for Families with Infants and Toddlers that guided the design of the new Early Head Start program. She began her professional career by serving for eight years as the director of the Bank Street Infant and Family Center, and holds a master's degree in early childhood education from the Bank Street College of Education.

Review:

"If you want to love and nurture your child as well as you possibly can, this little book can help." -- Penelope Leach, PhD

"Sets the standard for helping parents individually know how they can help their child thrive." -- Kyle Pruett, MD, Yale University Child Study Center

"This book makes a contribution to any new parents' library. You will enjoy it!" -- T. Berry Brazelton, MD, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital

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