Home Visiting

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.

Explore Joint Planning

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.

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.