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Learn why it is key that home visitors work with each family to help track and make sure that children have annual health, vision, hearing, behavioral, and developmental screening.

Learn more about emergent literacy. Discover the many ways young children can engage with books, from holding and turning the pages, to pointing to and talking about the pictures and asking questions.

Supporting parent strengths and capacities is a fundamental element of the home-based option. A primary goal is to strengthen the parent–child relationship.

Learning opportunities that are planned and structured to meet the interests and development level of the child are more likely to have a more positive impact on development.

Many home visitors observe serious challenges that affect relationships with families and require immediate action. Find out ways programs can put policies in place to meet these kinds of situations.

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Ongoing assessments provide specific information about each child’s learning and development. This helps the home visitor and family members to create focused, individualized learning opportunities and track each child’s progress.

Parent contribute to the planning, interact with their child, observe other adults, and watch their child interact with peers. Parents may make new friendships that extend into their daily lives.

Head Start home-based programs can use socialization to share information and help connect families to comprehensive services. Based on the unique needs of families, home visitors can talk about a variety of topics.

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