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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 child’s 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 curriculum–it 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.
Quotes from Users
Best Beginnings is an exciting new tool to help you provide families with complete and individualized anticipatory guidance and support
"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
"Great opportunity for pediatricians to use this systematic approach when giving anticipatory guidance to families. A beautiful design to be used just like our growth charts; helping families to anticipate what will be the next ‘milestone’, and how to get there."
-Pediatrician
"Four stars go to Best Beginnings! Finally!! Help for parents to help their children at home - a parent-friendly tool for fostering language development. An easy-to-read guide for parents and professionals and a great teaching supplement for speech-language pathologists."
-Speech and Language Pathologist
"Filling out the Questionnaire gave me questions to ask the doctor that I wouldn't have thought of otherwise. It was a fast and easy thing to do while I was waiting."
-Mother of 15 month old child
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Best Beginnnings Chart
Brenda Hussey-Gardner, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Helps you provide comprehensive developmental guidance to parents of infants and toddlers.
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