The Social Emotional Topics deal with the social development needs of young children with vision impairment. Provide strategies for teaching self-care skills to young children with vision loss. Learning through the senses has three components. The vision section focuses on impairment of the child's visual system, how to determine visual abilities and how to help the child use vision. The section on hearing provides information related to helping infants and toddlers use hearing to gain meaningful information about their environment.
Cognition contains activities to stimulate the child's problem solving abilities.
Topics cover many areas of thinking, such as formation of concepts about people and objects, memory, reasoning, and creativity. The trained Parent Advisor provides the link between the child's home-based program to the child care environment. The program provides resources which can be used in partnership to help meet the concerns, needs, and priorities of the child, family, and child care provider. The Communication topics enable the family and child care provider to develop ways of interacting that will make the child's language learning possible. The Language topics assist families and child care providers in enhancing skills that will create a natural, stimulating environment and that will encourage language growth in the child through interactions and conversations.