Badanaa adadayga ay caruurtu muujiso waxay kamid tahay korinnimadooda. In caruurta labaro ereyada laxiriira waxa ay dareemayaan iyo iskaxamaynta waa muhiim sababta oo ah waxay baa bi’isaa dabeecadaha adag caruurtana waxay bartaa sida wanaagsan oo dadka loola dhaqmo.

Caruurta waxaa marar badan layiraahdaa “afka kahadla” si ay arintaa ugu guulaystaan waxy ubaahanyihiin in labaro ereyada dareenkooda laxiriira.  Macalimiintaan siyaabo badan ayeey caruurta ereyada ugu kobcin karaan ayagoo u aqrinaya buugta, tusaalayn siinaya iyo siyaabo kale oo kacaawin kara caruurta in ay kufiicnaadaan sida dadka looladhaqmo dabeecadaha adag nah ay kafogaadaan.

Waxaan si gaar ah ogabeeraan dagaynaa macluumaad ay soo saareen DEC iyo NAEYC oo ah ururo lashaqeeya caruurta.  Macluumaadkaasoo ah bayaankooda wadajirka iyo sida macluumaadkaas nooga caawinayo kobcinta kamidnoqoshoda goobta xanaanada iyo waxbarashada.  Sidoo kale, muhiimadda ay leedahay tageerada, kaqaybqaadashada iyo helitaanka fursadaha macluumaadkaan ayaa aas’aas u’ah baahida caruurta iyo shaqaalaha una ah xumin culus in lagu guulaysto kamidnoqoshada goobta wax barashada ubadka yar yar. 

In this podcast, Cindy Croft and Priscilla Weigel talk with Gina Gibson, Occupational Therapist, Fraser, Minnesota, about what sensory processing can look like in a young child and how the child care environment can support sensory needs of young children.

In this podcast, Cindy Croft and Priscilla Weigel talk with Gina Gibson, Occupational Therapist, Fraser, Minnesota, about what the evaluation process for sensory processing looks for a young child.

In this podcast, Cindy Croft and Priscilla Weigel talk with Gina Gibson, Occupational Therapist, Fraser, Minnesota, about guidelines for using weighted objects and other sensory interventions with young children.

In this podcast, Cindy Croft and Priscilla Weigel talk with Gina Gibson, Occupational Therapist, Fraser, Minnesota, about what occupational therapy is and how an OT works with children around self care skills, sensory needs, and fine motor development. 

Cindy Croft and Priscilla Weigel welcome the Center for Inclusive Child Care’s new team member Beth Menninga, Infant Toddler Specialist Network program manager and manager of our Relationship Based Professional Development supports. Beth shares about the way our coaches can enhance quality infant and toddler care in family child care settings as well as center based environments.

Cindy Croft and Priscilla Weigel continue their conversation with CICC’s Beth Menninga. The focus of this podcast is on language development in our youngest learners. Beth shares about essential ways we all can support a healthy foundation of communication by cueing in to the very simplest interactions and body language of infants. Joint Attention, parallel talk and self-talk are discussed.

In part 2 of this series on effective use of  visual supports in the child care setting, Cindy Croft and Priscilla Weigel share simple ways to develop and use visual supports for infants and toddlers. They discuss the way these tools support language and learning for our youngest children.