Concepts for Care: 20 Essays on Infant/Toddler Development and Learning
Dr. Ronald Lally and Dr. Peter Mangione are national experts on early childhood development and Co-Directors of the Center for Child and Family Studies at WestEd. They also share the leadership of the Program for Infant/Toddler Care (PITC), a collaboration between the California Department of Education and WestEd. Dr. Lally holds a doctorate in Educational Psychology from the University of Florida and a postdoctoral certificate of Infant Testing from the Child Development Research Centre in London. He directed the Syracuse University Family Development Research Program.  Dr. Mangione was a doctoral fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Psychiatry in Munich, Germany, where he specialized in infant development and the use of video technology to study social behavior. He holds a Ph.D. in education and human development from the University of Rochester. Deborah Greenwald spent 12 years as an infant and toddler caregiver in a variety of center-based settings and currently trains adults in high-quality infant/toddler group care. She holds a B.A. in Child Development from Humboldt State University and an M.A. in Human Development with an emphasis on working with infants and toddlers from Pacific Oaks College. She is a certified Associate of Magda Gerber s Resources for Infant Educarers (RIE), has taught parent-infant guidance classes with Magda at RIE, and is a certified Montessori Infant Toddler Teacher. She is currently a faculty member for the Program for Infant/Toddler Care Training of Trainers Institutes.