Strategies for Supporting Caregiver-Child Interactions That Enhance Development

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Triadic strategies focus on the interactions between three individuals: the child, caregiver, and EI/EC professional. These strategies help us think about what we do, what caregivers do, and what we do together. Triadic strategies recognize and strengthen caregiver and child competence, confidence, and mutual enjoyment. Part 1 of this two-part series will provide an overview of the triadic strategies which include: 1) arranging the environment to increase the probability of enjoyable caregiver child interactions; 2) affirming parenting competence; 3) focusing attention; 4) providing developmental information; 5) modeling; and 6) suggesting. Each strategy will be explained with examples given across roles and settings.

Presenter

Tweety Yates, Ph.D. works on the Early Intervention Training Program (EITP) Grant at the University of Illinois and The National Center on Early Childhood Development, Teaching and Learning (NCECDTL) contract through Vanderbilt University. She is also a consultant and faculty for the Pyramid Model Consortium. Dr. Yates’ primary research interest are supporting caregiver-child interactions, promoting social emotional, language, and literacy development and effective professional development delivery practices. She has been involved in early childhood professional development for over 30 years. 

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Good Things Come in Threes | Series

This webinar series discusses evidence-based strategies used by early interventionists (EI) and early childhood (EC) care and education professionals that promotes child development through caregiver-child interactions. These strategies, referred to as triadic strategies, focus on the interactions between three individuals: the child, caregiver, and EI/EC professional.

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