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Infant Development
ID1
Infancy: The Beginning
The development of self-esteem begins
at birth. This videotape illustrates how responding to the needs
of infants can enhance their self-esteem. Caregivers demonstrate
the importance of being consistent; giving attention to social,
emotional and mental needs during diaper changing; addressing individual
needs at nap time; encouraging independence with finger foods; and
providing equipment, toys and an environment that encourages a "look
what I can do" attitude. Viewers will also see how a corporate
care center handles the unique needs of two special children. The
Children Plus Early Childhood Self-Esteem Video Series. Self Dimensions,
Inc. (20 mins.)
ID2
Seeing Infants with New Eyes
Magda Gerber's exemplary program dramatically
illustrates how adult interactions with infants can make a difference.
The National Association for the Education of Young Children
(NAEYC). (26 mins.)
ID3
A Child Grows: The First Year
How does an infant change and grow in the first 365 days of life? What can infants do? This lively,
highly usable video explores the developmental milestones of young children. An all-infant cast
demonstrates how eye-hand coordination matures from a random swiping at objects, to the complex
skill called "top level reaching". This updated video includes a quiz and is suitable for self-study,
orientation, and staff development. Closed Captioned.
Learning Seed . (2003) (47 mins.)
ID4
Child Development: The First Two Years
A comprehensive guide to enhancing
your child's physical and mental development. KidSafety of America
and V.I.E.W. Video (47 mins)
ID5
Child Development: Prenatal to Birth
Being well informed during the prenatal
period of your pregnancy will help ensure the birth of a healthy
baby. This film gives a detailed description of the stages from
conception to birth. It explains the importance of prenatal care,
as well. Meridian Education Corporation. (13 mins.)
ID6
Early Messages: Facilitating Language Development and Communication
This video opens with an overview of
language development and communication during infancy. Starting
at birth, infants actively build connections between sounds, gestures,
and meaning. As infants grow, their biologically built-in potential
to learn language unfolds. The video underscores that this development
is rooted in the child's family and culture. Through rich examples
of infant-caregiver communication and infants' early language, it
illustrates ten strategies caregivers can use to enhance communication
and language development. These strategies include being responsive
when infants initiate communication, engaging in nonverbal communication,
using child-directed language, helping children expand language,
supporting bilingual development, attending to individual development
and needs, and engaging infants with books and stories. WestEd
(1998) (28 mins.)
ID7
Infant Massage: The Power of Touch
Doctors worldwide have recognized the
positive impact of massage on infants' well-being. This video offers
a contemporary approach to this ancient art. Ines Benedict, a licensed
neuromuscular therapist, leads this step-by-step lesson in baby
massage techniques. This is a unique parenting resource designed
to safe, effective massage techniques while strengthening
the bonds between babies and caregivers, and contributing to the
development of secure, self-confident children. V.I.E.W. Video
(47 mins.)
ID8
In Our Hands
This video focuses attention on the
harmful effects of poor quality child care on infants and identifies
critically important steps our society needs to take to improve
infant care. The video is designed to promote quality child care
and is divided into four sections that describe the fundamental
needs of infants and toddlers who are cared for outside the home:
Close, Caring Relationships, Health and Safety, Connection to Family
and Knowledgeable, Responsive Caregivers. WestEd. (1997)
(12 mins.)
ID9
The Next Step: Including the Infant in the Curriculum
"We
made this video because we are concerned that many of the messages
brought forth in from Neurona to Neighborhoods are being ignored.
This video is an attempt to point out that all of us who are serious
about assisting children to develop will do so by starting with
the definition of an infant that the most recent research has given
us: a curious motivated pre-programmed learner who is desperately
in need of trusting and secure relationships as the base for both
independent and interactive learning. I am hoping the video can
help people point out that the school readiness arguments of the
next few years should bypass the empty topic of rigor and focus
on whether initiatives are making accurate assessments of how children
think and feel, and how their development can best be facilitated."
J. Ronald Lally, Ed.D., Co-Director, Center for Child and Family
Studies, WestEd (2001) (22
mins.)
ID10
Infants and Toddlers
Caring for the Little Ones - This video
provides participants with practical and invaluable skills in nurturing
infants and toddlers. It provides a review of developmental stages
for infants and toddlers and explores age appropriate activities
to enrich their environment. Additional topics covered include:
immunization/disease prevention, car seat safety, shaken baby, Sudden
Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), and safeguarding your environment.
Satellite Training Network Oklahoma Department of Human Services
(SATTRN). (1 hr. 49 mins.)
ID11
Flexible, Fearful or Feisty
This video describes the different
temperaments of infants and toddlers identified in research studies
by Stella Chess, M.D., Nine identified traits can be grouped into
three temperamental styles: flexible, fearful, or feisty. Techniques
are described for dealing with children of different temperaments
in infant/toddler groups. Alicia Lieberman, Ph.D., is featured.
WestEd. (1990) (30 mins.)
ID12
Together in Care: Meeting the Intimacy Needs of Infants and Toddlers
in Groups
During infancy children need deep connections
with each person who cares for them, whether those persons are family
members or caregivers. All the learning and loving that follows
in children's lives builds on those early attachments with special
people. This video presents three child care program policies that
will lead to this special kind of care: primary caregiver assignments,
use of small groups, and continuity of care. Recommendations are
presented on how to organize primary caregiving most effectively,
optimal group sizes and ratios for different settings and age groups,
and how to ensure continuity of care. WestEd. (1992) (30
mins.)
ID13
Ten Things Every Child Needs
Hosted by popular television personality,
Tim Reid, the documentary contains comments by well-known brain
researchers and child development experts explaining ten simple
things to influence children's brain development. WTTW Chicago.
(1 hr.)
ID14
The Ages of Infancy
Caring for Young, Mobile, and Older
Infants - This video divides infancy into three different stages
of development: the young, the mobile, and the older infant or toddler.
Each stage is characterized by its own crucial developmental issue.
For the young infant, security is the focus; for the mobile infant,
it is exploration; for the older infant, it is the quest for identity.
Specific guidelines and suggestions for caregiving are offered.
WestEd. (1990) (26 mins.)
ID15
Discoveries of Infancy
Cognitive Development and Learning
- This video explores the quest for knowledge of infants and toddlers.
The video describes the six major kinds of discoveries children
make in the first three years of life. WestEd. (1992)
(32 mins.)
ID16
Getting In Tune
Creating Nurturing Relationships with
Infants and Toddlers - This video presents the importance of responsible
caregiving and explores a process for getting in tune with infants
and toddlers in a child care setting. The process consists of studying
child development and temperamental differences in infants and toddlers;
learning about the children's families and their cultures; developing
self-awareness; and mastering the responsive process of watch, ask,
and adapt. Jeree Pawl, Ph.D., and Magda Gerber, M.A., are featured.
WestEd. (1990) (24 mins.)
ID17
Respectfully Yours
Magda Gerber's Approach to Professional
Infant/Toddler Care - J. Ronald Lally, Ed.D., interviews Magda Gerber,
MA, an internationally recognized leader in infant care, on a variety
of topics. Scenes from caregiving settings illustrate points that
Magda Gerber makes during the interview. This video is divided into
three segments of approximately 20 minutes each. WestEd.
(1988) (58 mins.)
ID19
It's Not Just Routine: Feeding, Diapering and Napping Infants and
Toddlers (2nd Edition)
Caregiving routines are presented from the infant's perspective.
Also demonstrated are appropriate health, safety, and environmental
practices for each routine (feeding, diapering, and napping). The
content of the video emphasizes that such caregiving routines are
opportunities for individualized, responsive caregiving that can
facilitate each child's development. WestEd (1999) (24 mins.)
ID20
Begin with Love - The First Three Months: Connecting with Your Child
with Oprah Winfrey
This video, featuring Oprah Winfrey, focuses on your relationship
with your infant in the first three months of life. Based on the
latest research in early childhood development, the video highlights
five guidelines that will help all new parents create a responsive
and enriching environment for their young baby - the key to helping
her learn about her new world. Those guidelines include: 1) Take
Care of Yourself, 2) Provide a Warm and Loving Environment, 3) Talk,
Sing and Read to Your Baby, 4) Create a Predictable World for Your
Baby, and 5) Understand and Respond to Your Baby's Needs. Also featuring
Dr. Kyle Pruett, a wonderful group of new parents, and the world
debut of Raffi's song "Blessed Be". Civitas (30
mins.)
ID21
The Whole Child - Babies are Children, Too
The special concerns when caring for infants in groups and the importance
of nurturing care.
The Annenberg/CPB Collection (30 mins.)
ID22 The Nature of Human Attachments in Infancy
A historical overview of infant mental health, with current thoughts on the process by which human
infants and their primary caretakers develop a bond; what difference it makes to the infant's mental,
motor, physical and emotional development, and how we may notice when such a bond is absent or
conflicted. Suitable for use with "lay" groups (parents, educators, etc.) as well as for use as an
introduction to more in-depth training of clinicians, the tape includes narrative and vignettes from both
healthy and conflicted caregiver-infant dyads.
Infant-Parent Institute. (56 min.)
ID23 The Newborn, the Family, and the Dance
A discussion, with tape clips from both normal and troubled families, of the ways in which real or
imagined characteristics of the newborn affect the way in which he is integrated into the family, and
the nature of his relationships with primary caretakers. The TWO-WAY character of infant-parent
interactions and of the evolving relationship, and the problems of FIT, are highlighted. Newborn
responses to some parts of the Brazleton (neonatal behavioral assessment scale) will be demonstrated.
The tape is useful with childbirth preparation classes, parent and pre-parent groups, and physician
in-services, as well as in professional training curricula for infant mental health clinicians. Infant-Parent Institute. (58 min.)
ID24 Cooing, Crying, Cuddling: Infant Brain Development
Explores the fascinating process of brain development during the first 15 months of life.
Understanding how to stimulate this process can help give babies a better start.
The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).(28 min.)
ID25 Communication and Learning: Social and Emotional Development of Infants and Toddlers
Based on the research of "From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood
Development, this video illustrates the ways in which children begin to acquire the capabilities that
support communication and future learning.
The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). (20 min.)
ID26 Making Friends and Getting Along with Peers: Social and Emotional Development of Infants and Toddlers
Based on the research of "From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood
Development, this video discusses the ways in which learning to form relationships have a significant
impact on young children, their self-worth, and their ability to learn.
The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).(21 min.)
ID27 Acquiring Self-Regulation: Social and Emotional Development of Infants and Toddlers
Based on the research of "From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood
Development, this video explores the challenges children face as they make the transition from
external regulation to self-regulation.
The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). (22 min.)
