The cornerstone of Magda Gerber's work is respect for infants. In this book she offers guidance on how to "educare," to care as you educate.

This book shows parents how to tap into the child’s five senses - hearing, sight, smell, taste, and touch - to actually stimulate the growth of the brain and increase the child’s intelligence.

In this tape we learn how children, from infancy, develop their sense of self and how they incorporate into their sense of self their sexual identity. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video addresses the critical impact of the first three years of life and offers strategies for loving and nurturing interaction with children in a variety of cultural and family circumstances. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video shows how the spirit of family can be enhanced by accessible, informal, everyday activities that expose children to literacy. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video outlines the many ways in which play affects the social, emotional, and cognitive growth of children from birth through age eight, years crucial to their development. The video is organized in five segments to highlight the many ways play can enrich a child’s life. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video addresses the developmental needs of the newborn and covers issues such as neonatal tests and assessments, bonding with parents, options for feeding, and causes and care of high risk infants. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

In this tape the early interactions between parent and child are likened to a dance with carefully orchestrated interactions on both sides. Both partners learn from each other. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

In this video we see that the essential base of trust develops in the early relationship of love and nurturing, holding and stroking, nourishment and care. This positive foundation affects relationships throughout life. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

The infant uses both sensory and perceptive capabilities for early learning. These innate reflexes are utilized in discovering the world. The child continues learning by adapting new skills of looking, mouthing, handling, and manipulating objects. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video addresses the major landmarks in locomotion and fine motor skills that are realized in the child's first year. Accomplishment of these physical abilities falls within the general principles of direction and sequence. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This series focuses on the first year of life and presents an occupational therapist, with her infant son, who introduces games and activities that use all the senses to encourage engagement and exploration as well as to identify and overcome problems. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video presents tools to support sensory motor development in 0 to 3 month-old babiesr. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video offers techniques that foster the sensory motor development of 3 to 6 month old babies. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video presents games and activities that encourage sensory motor development of 6 to 9 month old babies. Available in DVD and VHS format.

This video offers parents and caregivers techniques to encourage the sensory motor development of 9 to 12 month old babies. Available in DVD and VHS format.

The separation-individuation process, as identified by Margaret Mahler, pinpointed aspects of the early life of the child not previously known. Includes: VHS

This video shows the four sub-phases of individuation, identified and describe by Margaret Mahler, that a child moves through as personality develops. Includes: VHS or DVD

This video examines the separation-individuation process, identified by Dr. Margaret Mahler, and the development of the sense of self during the first eighteen months of life. Includes: VHS or DVD

Michael Trout examines perspectives of infant mental health and the bonds developed between babies and their mothers. Includes vignettes from both healthy and conflicted caregiver-infant dyads. Available in VHS format only.

This video shows two caregivers each bathing a baby. Watch the communication that occurs between the two sets of partners and identify the behaviors that increase the infant's self-awareness and support the relationship to the adult. Choose from DVD and VHS formats.

This curricula includes topics such as bonding and attachment, continuity of care, the effects of stress on the parents and infant, health and safety, mother's physical and emotional health, ways to promote the baby's overall development through daily care routines, toys and books, and building a trusting relationship.

This fourth curriculum in the Partners for a Healthy Baby series incorporates neurodevelopment research, infant mental health, and evidence-based best practices during later infancy.

This series portrays the theory and practice of child care for babies and toddlers at the Lady Gowrie Center in Adelaide, Australia. Available in DVD and VHS formats. Includes: Manuals

This video promotes the value of a primary caregiving system for babies and toddlers and their parents. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

In walking, the state of being both mobile and upright significantly changes the way the toddler perceives the world. As this tape shows, the increasing ability to manipulate objects occurs simultaneously with increasing mobility. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video is designed to provide child-care professionals with an understanding of the theory of attachment with linkages to research. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video focus on the benefits and factors that make up high-quality relationships between caregivers and parents and that achieve optimal outcomes for children in child-care settings.

This book helps professionals who work with the families of young children to establish those crucial bonds, giving the parents the means to identify their children’s needs, enhance interaction with their children, and address any factors that might prevent them from building a strong relationship with their children.

The book offers guidelines for effective observation and strategies to help refine observation skills and transform observing into an essential component of teaching practices.

This book explores nine domains of child emotional and social development from birth to 6 years and includes major theories and findings from research.

This videotape looks at how children grow and develop, and at the caregiver's role in that process. It also looks at child guidance and working with children of different ages and stages of development. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

TABS is specifically designed to identify critical temperament and self-regulation problems that can indicate a child’s risk for developmental delay as early as possible. Includes: Set includes Screener, Assessment Tool, and Manual

A set of 80 tear-off handouts to accompany the Home Visiting Curriculum: Toddler's Months 28-36 (2nd half of book)

Toddler's Months 19-36 is organized around 4 major areas: FamilyDevelopment, Family Health, Caring for Toddler, and Toddler Development. Included within each area are topics to be discussed on the home visit, samples of handouts for families, and additional resources.

Children's play is child-directed, process-oriented and evolving. And as studied here, play is viewed as essential to children for learning and developing. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video is about early infant attachment and how bonding with the parent affects the development of the child. Also reviews the research of many scientists. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This three-volume video series presents the most current nutrition information available and teaches age-appropriate food choices and how to make nutritious eating and healthy lifestyle a fun family habit. Includes facilitator guide and handouts. Available in English and Spanish.

This video recommends healthy nutritional practices for parents and care givers of infants from birth to 1 year. It describes effective feeding methods, time-intervals, and types of food for your growing baby. Available in English and Spanish.

In this series of four videos Drs Stella Chess and Alexander Thomas present their original research on the temperament of children. Includes detailed presentations of three clusters of temperament traits associated with the development of behavioral problems. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video looks at the developmental sequence of early-literacy and literacy-promoting activities at home and in center-based environments. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

In this classic interview, Dr Jean Piaget and Dr Barbel Inhelder discuss the stages of intellectual development identified by Piaget as well as traditional views of psychology. ncludes: VHS

This video set presents Dr T. Berry Brazelton and twelve young parents with their children, from before birth to age three years. Together they define and illustrate "touchpoints." Included 3 VHS tapes.

This book examines inclusive child care settings and explores strategies for caring for infants and toddlers both with and without disabilities. A range of topics are reviewed such as handling daily care activities, communicating with parents, and anticipating the actions and emotions of toddlers.

This comprehensive handbook addresses the issues involved when children are potty trained in child care as well as in the home.

This series of four videos shows how teen parents can prevent and deal with discipline problems with their babies and toddlers. Available on VHS and DVD.

This video identifies the importance of early identification of visual impairment in infants with severe and multiple disabilities. A pediatric optometrist demonstrates five common vision tests checking ocular health: Cover-Uncover Test, Pupillary Response, Retinoscopy, Preferential Looking/Teller Cards, and the Visual Evoked Potential. Includes: VHS

This video explores the development of the social contacts of babies and young children from the ages of four months to two and a half years. Observed in the "naturalistic" setting (as opposed to an artificial or experimental setting) of the Loczy home residence in Budapest, children go through three overlapping periods of development. Choose from DVD and VHS formats.

This video involves various child care experts who illustrate methods of creating a healing environment for infants that were born with drug-addicted and alcoholic parents. Rebuilding the emotional and psychological foundations for these infants is what the healing setting attempts to achieve.

This series is designed to teach parents how to promote learning skills in their own children and students through natural play. Available in DVD and VHS formats.