Program for Infant-Toddler Care (PITC) Caregiving Guides

• Infant-Toddler Caregiving: A Guide to Cognitive Development and Learning (Second Edition) | English/Spanish
  Guidance on supporting cognitive development and learning in early care and education programs for infants and toddlers, including practical ideas on how to create relationships with children that encourage exploration and discovery and help them to become confident learners. The guide includes an appendix that presents California’s early learning and development foundations for the domain of cognitive development.

• Infant-Toddler Caregiving: A Guide to Creating Partnerships with Families (Third Edition) | English
  Information on working with families of infant and toddlers from diverse backgrounds and cultures, as well as strategies to ease family concerns about using out-of-home care and to address their feelings about leaving their young children with others.

• Infant-Toddler Caregiving: A Guide to Social-Emotional Growth and Socialization (Third Edition) | English | Spanish | Simplified Chinese | Traditional Chinese
  Approaches to nurturing the social and emotional growth of infants and toddlers. Current research about brain development and its relationship to children's emotional growth and socialization is also discussed. An appendix of the social-emotional development foundations is included.

• Infant-Toddler Caregiving: A Guide to Culturally Sensitive Care (Second Edition) | English/Spanish
  Information and perspectives on the influence of culture and language on children's development, including practical ideas on how to create collaborative relationships with families from diverse cultural backgrounds and connections between the home and early care setting.

• A Guide to Language Development and Communication (Second Edition) | English/Spanish
  Latest research findings about the role of a family's culture in the child's development of communication, including a discussion of how parents and teachers can build a foundation for literacy in infants and toddlers.

• A Guide to Routines (Third Edition) | English
  Presents caregiving routines as opportunities for caregivers to build a close personal relationship with each child while attending to the child's physical, emotional, and other developmental needs.

• A Guide to Setting Up Environments (Third Edition) | English
  Tested ideas for setting up a child care environment that fosters early learning and is safe and healthful, including updated resources, sample layouts of exemplary child care settings, and ways to accommodate children with disabilities or special needs.