Promoting Infant and Toddler Development, Learning, and Wellbeing

 

Holistic development ensures practices that support physical, cognitive, emotional, social and language development in infants and toddlers. As these domains are connected and should be nurtured through purposeful early childhood experiences.

  1. Use a developmental approach; Development in one area supports others, such as language helps express emotions. Because integrated pedagogies can advocate for well-rounded development.
  2. Stable Relationships Are the Foundation of Development: Secure relationships promote trust, self-regulation, and identity, which, in turn, shapes brain development.
  3. Create Predictable Routines Consistency leads to emotional stability which increases autonomy as well as resilience and wellbeing.
  4. Nutrition and Physical Wellbeing ; balanced diet and active care support brain development and emotional balance.
  5. Design Play-Based Settings: Play is a vehicle for learning Sensory-rich environments promote cognitive, motor, and social development through inclusive, open-ended materials.
  6. Engage with your child in emotive language-rich interactions; Language is tied to emotion. All of these, storytelling, emotion naming, and responsive communication, support both.

 7. Observation and Documentation; Follow up on the interests of children and document daily learning situations.

 8. Integrate Multi-Dimensional Pedagogy; These combined strategies create thriving environments for infants and toddlers, recognizing each child’s unique learning journey.

Developmental Domains in Infant and Toddlers 

Cognitive Development 

Social Development 

Emotional Development 

Language and Literacy Development 

Perceptual Development and the Five Senses

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