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Posted on August 15, 2019August 15, 2019 by childcare

Infants in Child Care

Infant sleeping and smiling

Infancy is one of the most important stages in a child’s life. Child care providers need to understand how infants develop in order to provide sensitive, responsive child care programs that meet the needs of individual infants. The following articles give child care providers some basic information about infant development.

  • What Child Care Providers Can Expect in Infants’ Physical Development
  • What Child Care Providers Can Expect in Infants’ Thinking and Language Development
  • What Child Care Providers Can Expect in Infants’ Social and Emotional Development
  • Suggestions for Child Care Providers to Meet Infants’ Needs
  • Talking with Babies in Child Care
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This is a national Cooperative Extension resource

This work is supported in part by New Technologies for Agriculture Extension grant no. 2020-41595-30123 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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