Infants and Toddlers
This is a major milestone of Piaget's Sensorimotor stage of development.
What is object permanence?
Partners that communicate with each other to ensure a child receives appropriate support.
Who are early childhood educators, parents, and early intervention specialists?
This is the organization that developed guidelines for Developmentally Appropriate Practice.
What is NAEYC?
Quality rating and improvement system to strengthen early childhood programs in New Mexico.
What is FOCUS?
Morning sign in, circle time, center time, outdoor time, lunch, nap, afternoon play, preparing to leave the program.
What are daily routines?
Production of ______ lags behind comprehension (toddlers can understand more words than are in their speaking vocabulary).
What is speech?
Where children receive early intervention that includes children without disabilities.
What are natural environments?
What is a child care setting or home?
Ability to recognize and express their feelings.
What is emotional awareness?
What is acroynm for Early Childhood Education and Care Department.
What is ECECD?
Gross and fine motor skills, such as walking, running, and manipulating objects. Active play is essential for developing coordination and strength.
What is physical development?
Of all of the senses, _______ is the least developed at birth
What is vision?
Children receiving early intervention in classrooms with their typically developing peers.
What is inclusion?
Social Emotional, Language, Cognitive, and Physical
What are areas of child development?
First state to offer universal child care.
What is New Mexico?
A baby’s brain is a quarter of the size of an adult brain, but it ______ in the first year of life.
What is doubles in size?
Infants and toddlers 1 - 6
Preschool 1 - 12
What are child care classroom ratios?
Work with infants and toddlers who have developmental delays or disabilities.
Who are early interventionists?
What is an early childhood therapist?
Behaviors that mark stages of typical growth.
What are developmental milestones?
This famous singer started the Imagination Library which boosts literacy and learning across New Mexico.
Who is Dolly Parton?
Early childhood education covers birth through a. kindergarten b. 3rd grade c. preschool
What is (b) 3rd grade?
This is Erikson's stage of infancy.
What is Trust vs. Mistrust?
Child care centers are prohibited from denying admission or participation based on a child's disability. They must provide equal opportunities for all children.
What is Non-Discrimination?
Ability to control impulses and manage emotions.
What is Self-Regulation?
New Mexico's program to support children zero to three with developmental delays or disabilities.
What is Family Infant Toddler aka FIT?
This person was the first female physician in Italy and is well known for her child care program, Casa dei Bambini. Today her approach to early childhood education continues to be popular throughout the world.
Who is Maria Montessori?