Get to know what correspondence course is available through the Care Courses School in Infants in Child Care. Here you can find academic description of the course and its cost.

Infants in Child Care

Correspondence courses are flexible and comfortable way of studying that allows you to study at home. They are ideal for people who have a full-time job or other commitments. They are open for everybody. This might be a professional who needs to update his knowledge or skills, or a mother who wants to refresh her qualifications before re-entering the labor market.

Care Courses is a distance learning school since 1986. It offers early childhood (ECE) training that has helped hundreds of early childhood professionals get their CDA (Child Development Associates Credential) or CCP (Certified Childcare Professional) as quickly and painlessly as possible, while at the same time helping them to better understand their children and business.

Most Care Courses come in both book (paper) format and electronic (emailed) format. What you learn, the cost and the clock hours are the same regardless of which format you choose; only the delivery method is different. Book courses are send by free standard shipping to your home or office address, usually arriving in 10 business days after payment. Book Courses are great because you can read them when and where you please, once finished starting a course library to refer to later.

Infants in Child Care – help you create an environment that promotes infants’ motor, cognitive, emotional and social development. Collection of appropriate games and activities for infants included. Once you have completed the course and mailed (electronic courses may be faxed) in your answers to us, you can expect to receive your certificate within 1-3 weeks (depending on the grading option you choose).

Chapters cover: Basic Elements of Infant Care; Motor and Cognitive Development During the First Year; Social and Behavioral Issues; Playing with Infants

Topics covered in this course:
     - The appropriate curriculum for infant day care facilities
     - Characteristics of high-quality infant day care facilities (space, furnishing, equipment, staff qualifications, staff-child interactions)
     - How to organize an infant day care facility for safety, convenience, and efficiency
     - Feeding infants
     - Understanding and meeting infants' nutritional needs
     - Safety for infants, including a discussion of SIDS
     - Relationship between infant day care facility and parents, including discussion of parents' separation anxiety
     - Motor and cognitive development during the first year of life
     - Social and emotional development during the first year of life
     - Language development during the first year of life
     - Adults' role in facilitating infants' development through play and routine care
     - Ways to match activities to infants' developmental needs
     - Specific activities for interactive play to promote sensory, motor, language, cognitive, social and emotional development during the different stages of infancy.

Tuition - $50