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The purpose of screening is to identify children who should be referred for evaluation for possible developmental, health, or sensory concerns.

Child development is a complex set of processes including physical, social, psychological, and cognitive growth in perceptual, motor, and physical development, approaches to learning, social and emotional development, cognition, and language and literacy.

Learn why it’s key that Head Start home-based programs establish protocols to cope with various kinds of crises. This includes how and when to contact community partners and the management team.

Some Early Head Start programs may also decide to serve pregnant women in addition to children. Learn about the requirements in 45 CFR § 1302.80.

Find out what makes Approaches to Learning different from the other ELOF domains. The domain doesn’t focus on what skills, concepts, or behaviors children acquire but on how children acquire them.

Explore language and literacy. Discover how language is the ability to both use and understand spoken words or signs. Literacy is about using and understanding written words, or other symbols, to communicate.

Learn how it’s important for children, birth to 5, to build healthy habits that support physical and mental well-being for school success.

Find out more about cognition—a young child’s increasing ability to learn. Explore how young children learn from their physical and social environments.

Children’s social and emotional development is key to school readiness. Find out why it can better develop when children have responsive, meaningful, and ongoing relationships with their caregivers.

These Teacher Time episodes focus on supporting preschoolers' development and learning through all the elements of the Framework for Effective Practice, or House Framework.