Best Beginnings: Helping Parents Make a Difference

Resource Type

Equipment/Aid - Parent

Description

"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..." -from the website

Ages

All Ages

Age Groups

Infancy (<1), Toddlerhood (1-3), Preschool/Kindergarten (3-5), School Age (6-12), Adolescence (13-21), Adulthood (22+)

Web Address

http://www.vort.com/home.php?cat=8

Languages

English

Authors

VORT Corporation , Brenda Hussey-Gardner Ph.D., M.P.H.

Publication

1999 VORT Corporation

Availability

• VORT Practical Tools - "VORT's products are recognized world-wide as practical and effective tools for family-centered developmental assessment and instruction." --from the website
  http://www.vort.com/index.html