1. Using Relationships of Support to Nurture the Language of Emotions
Barbara Stroud, PhD
Using Relationships of Support to Nurture the Language of Emotions

2. Infant Mental Health What is Infant Mental Health?
Successful social-emotional developmental outcomes
Prevention & promotion model to target all children
How does it apply to Child Care Providers?
The importance of nurturing relationships of support
Understanding the social-emotional foundations of learning

3. Relationships Matter
Development occurs in the context of a relationship
Relationships build the brain structure
Relationships teach about emotions and stress recovery
Relationships build language skills
Relationships build motor, cognitive and social-emotional skills

4. Significant Relationships for Children
Parents (primary caregivers)
Child care providers (often children are in care for 6 to 10 hours a day)
Extended family
Peers & siblings

5. The professional child care provider
A relationship of support that nurtures all development Includes:
Brain Development
Social-emotional Development
Attachment and Relationship Skills
Language Development
Child Development Expert and resource to parents
Why did I refer to the child care provider as an professional because they are. The build the brains and social networks of young children

6. How do your relationships with child care providers impact children?

7. Relationships & Language Development
What motivates a child to talk or not talk?
How do relationships fit in?
How does the environment fit in?
What can the child care provider do differently to motivate language?

8. Building Language Create the motivation to communicate
Create multiple relationships of support and interest to the child
A verbally rich environment and a print rich environment
Encourage cross talk among peers and mixed ages

9. Language based games Using games to build language
What mixed age activities support expression and language development?
Questions caregivers can use daily to support language development
Explore how multi-age family day care homes can use relationships across children to nurture language development
How can mixed age group children work to support language development
How can care providers encourage discussion and mixed age language development
Games that promote language (informal sibling groups/ peer buddies)

10. The Language of emotion
Supporting the development of emotional language
Social-emotional skill building supports the development of emotional language
How are providers currently including social-emotional content in their daily activities?
Examine how interpersonal experiences with caregivers and mixed age peers can be used to build language
Natural events as a method to teach emotional language and build social connections – go to CSEFEL
Giving words to affect, giving words to experience, using children to predict the affect or words of another.
Emotions are the language of relationships. How do I feel and how do people and events effect how I feel. How does the baby feel and how do event impact how the baby feels

11. Social emotional skills & Language
Provide children with the words to define their feelings
Use feeling words in daily interactions with children
Encourage children to use feeling words with peers
Use of feeling words can also support emotional regulation

12. How are you supporting The Skills of Learning Emotional Language ?

13. Supporting Special needs
The American Academy of Pediatrics reports that 12% -16% of all children have a developmental or behavioral delay
Seek to support all children to reach their optimal development
Necessary accommodations to support inclusion:
Slowing the pacing of instruction or learning
Increasing opportunities for repetition
Using peer supports

14. Influences of culture
Using Language to build an understanding of Diversity
How does Culture play a role in development?
How do child care providers’ best honor the cultural variability of the families they serve?

15. Thank you for your Attention I can be reached via email at:
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