Brenda Hussey-Gardner, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Overview
Best Beginnings facilitates your delivery of anticipatory guidance by providing:
- A convenient charting process to help track and record both child development and the information and support provided to parents;
- A Binder of reproducible handouts linked to the Chart and offering families information on what to expect in their childÕs current and next developmental phases.
Best Beginnings addresses issues related to child development in each of the five developmental domains: cognition, language, motor, social-emotional, and self-help. It also addresses issues related to feeding, sleeping, guiding behavior, toilet training, and choosing a preschool. Best Beginnings is not an assessment or a curriculumÐit is a tool that helps you, the professional, provide the best possible anticipatory guidance and information to families.
Best Beginnings can be used by any professional working with parents of infants and toddlers, including (but is not limited to):
early interventionists, service coordinators, therapists, pediatricians, nurses, social workers, daycare providers, and preschool teachers.
Best Beginnings offers a simple process for providing comprehensive, individualized, family-centered anticipatory guidance: ask/record and provide/record. First, you ask key questions from the Chart to determine what the family already knows and what their child is doing. As the family answers these questions, you record their responses. Through this process you identify and target areas for anticipatory guidance. Secondly, as target areas are identified, you provide verbal information and the handouts to address the needs of the family. Finally, you record the guidance you provide. To help you with this important process, Best Beginnings has two key components: the Binder and the Chart.
Benefits:
The Best Beginnings Chart includes key questions to ask parents, space for recording both parent responses and professional actions. The questions cover key issues related to child development and parenting, and are designed to help professionals best understand what is happening at home. Questions are sequenced by age and are coded for quick reference to the corresponding parent handout.
The Best Beginnings Binder of Parent Handouts provides key support information for each question on the Chart. This allows the professional to immediately provide parents with resources to meet the individual familyÕs needs. The handouts are easy to understand, comprehensive, and informative. They contain important information and insights on the topic to help parents better understand the issue or concept. The handouts also contain activities and suggestions that parents can implement to foster their childÕs development.
Safety notes are included in the handouts to help ensure safe implementation of recommendations. Parent handouts are presented in a binder format to facilitate easy copying. The Binder includes user instructions, an overview and tips for implementing Best Beginnings.
With Best Beginnings you have it all in one easy-to-use tool -- the questions to ask, one simple chart to record and track both parent and professional responses from birth to 3 years of age, and ready-to-copy handouts to give to families.
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Price: $24.95/pkg of 25 Charts
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Title: Best Beginnnings: pkg of 25 Charts
Author: Brenda Hussey-Gardner, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Product: #142, pkg of 25 Charts
Copyright: 1999
ISBN: 0-89718-247-2
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Quotes from Users
"All daycares should use Best Beginnings. It gives a personal touch with parents'a plus for business. Best Beginnings taught me so much! Now I can use the ideas in my center and share them with the parents."
-Daycare Proprietor
"An invaluable system for professionals in Early Childhood programs (Early Head Start, Parents as Teachers, Early Intervention) who work closely with families so they can better support these families in acquiring knowledge about child development and parenting."
EC Program Coordinator
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