The Infant Toddler Development Program prepares individuals to serve children from birth through age three years and their families. The demand for skills and expertise in serving this age level child and their families is on the increase.
Women continue to enter or re-enter the work force when their children are infants and toddlers.
The wider society is increasingly recognizing the need for reaching children at risk in the earliest years when services can produce the most enduring change in lives. 1 SOC210 The Child in Society 3 Program Competencies 1. Identify the levels of human development from conception through adolescence to include physical, cognitive, emotional, and social capacities that develop at various ages. Explain how awareness of self and others emerges in early childhood and describe techniques to assist children in developing skills necessary for participation in a pluralistic society. Identify and describe the characteristics associated with professionalism in early childhood education.