Addressing Challenging Behaviors for Infants and Toddlers (Creve Coeur)

Presented By: Sarah Grissom

Objectives: Understand the importance of addressing challenging behaviors in infants and toddlers. Understand the importance of the adult/child connection. Understand how to repsond to challenging behaviors.

Core Competencies: 

1b: Understand and value each child as an individual with unique developmental variations, experiences, strengths, interests, abilities, challenges, approaches to learning, and with the capacity to make choices. (0.5 Hours)
1c: Understand the ways that child development and the learning process occur in multiple contexts, including family, culture, language, community, and early learning setting, as well as in a larger societal context that includes structural inequities. (0.5 Hours)
4a: Understand and demonstrate positive, caring, supportive relationships and interactions as the foundation of early childhood educators' work with young children. (1 Hour)

CDAs: Safe, Healthy Learning Environment (1.5 Hours)
           Social and Emotional Development (0.5 Hours)