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David McGavock

Treatment Assumptions | Circle of Security International - 0 views

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      Relationship, relationship; nothing happens until and unless.
  • when children feel safe and secure, their attachment system terminates, and their exploratory system engages.
  • when children feel threatened, exposed, criticized, or vulnerable to attack, their exploratory system terminates and their attachment system is activated.
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  • In other words, people cannot adequately learn and defend themselves at the same time. When parents, especially high-risk parents who are often under social and legal scrutiny, take the risk of placing their caregiving approach under a magnifying glass their attachment needs (for protection and comfort) are often activated.
  • what is needed is a system for differentially identifying each child’s attachment pattern and his or her parent’s caregiving pattern, followed by a specific treatment protocol assigned to that dyadic pattern. Such a protocol helps eliminate the potential problems of a “one size fits all” approach to intervention.
  • this differential assessment-intervention protocol would allow more standardization in the training of service providers and implementation of their services, as well as the replication of the success we have come to know in our current work.
  • The Circle of Security™ is a user-friendly map that we developed to teach attachment theory to parents.
  • When children feel safe, their exploratory system or innate curiosity is activated and they need support (either verbally or non-verbally) for exploration; As they are exploring, sometimes they need their parents to watch over them, sometimes they need help, and sometimes they need their parents to enjoy with them; When they have explored long enough, (or if they get tired or anxious, or find themselves in an unsafe situation) they need their parents to welcome them back. When they return, they need their parents to comfort, protect, delight in, and/or organize their feelings. We focus on the last piece because for many of the parents it is a new idea that children need help organizing their internal experience as well as the external environment. When the attachment system is terminated, children are ready to start the circle again.
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UW research on brain activity delivers lessons on how kids learn | Local News | The Sea... - 0 views

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  • she has found, in work that is not yet published, that the ability of 6-month-olds to tune in to the sounds of their native language — like the subtle difference between “pat” and “bat” — predicts a skill at age 5 that corresponds strongly with reading success.
  • parents strengthen those connections as their children grow by reading aloud to them, asking open-ended questions, and practicing serve-and-return conversations that build vocabulary and basic knowledge about the world around them.
  • two dimensions of attention — locking in on what’s important while ignoring distractions — predicted both how well they would speak at age 2½ as well as their phonological awareness at age 5.
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  • Children who have even one adult spending time with them like that can form those connections, regardless of family wealth and education,
  • preschool should be about practicing all the ways that the brain experiences language — hearing it, speaking it, seeing it and writing it
  • Preschool also should provide “lots of opportunities to play, explore, listen to stories, look at the pictures and written words, and talk about what they hear,” Berninger said.
  • David McGavock on 22 Sep 14
     
    "Those two dimensions of attention - locking in on what's important while ignoring distractions - predicted both how well they would speak at age 2½ as well as their phonological awareness at age 5. Parents direct their babies' attention to what's important with lots of warm, loving, face-to-face talk using that kind of singsong voice that dips and rises and stretches out vowel sounds. And parents strengthen those connections as their children grow by reading aloud to them, asking open-ended questions, and practicing serve-and-return conversations that build vocabulary and basic knowledge about the world around them. Children who have even one adult spending time with them like that can form those connections, regardless of family wealth and education, Kuhl said."
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Baby/Toddler Reading: What Neuroscientists and Parents Need to Know | Psychology Today - 0 views

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  • experts seem to think that baby/toddler reading and learning to read in school are the same. They aren't. Of course babies and toddlers don't have the brain development to learn to read like a 6-year-old. Early literacy experts have come to understand that babies and toddlers learn to read differently.
  • Although no one can explain exactly how baby/toddler reading works, babies do have capacities from birth to age 3 for picking up reading–including phonics patterns and decoding–similar to their capacities for picking up languages.
  • hese events require intimate physical contact such as snuggling with a book or cuddling with the baby or toddler at the computer.
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  • The interview with Wang, a neuroscientist, along with one of his coauthors, Dr. Sandra Aamodt, celebrates the release of their new book, Welcome to Your Child's Brain, which synthesizes research on how the brain develops from infancy to adolescence and provides scores of tips for parents. The interview and a report on NPR's web site, "How to Help Your Child's Brain Grow Up Strong," are chock full of great advice that dovetails with best practices for baby/toddler reading:
  • • Don't use force.• Realize that children reach cognitive milestones at different times.• Expect babies' brains to do very complicated things. • Take advantage of the baby's special language capacities.• Capitalize on babies' attraction to language. • Use active and social exposure to words.• Encourage bilingual learning in babyhood.• Teach self-control.• Take advantage of your child's natural sense of fun.
  • "The most simple way is to talk to your baby and around your baby a lot" and "Respond when the baby speaks, even if the baby isn't forming the words correctly or you don't understand it.
  • add reading aloud and talking about the story to increase the number and quality of word data going into the baby/toddler brain in the first three years of life.
  • most of all, add book sharing and word games, because the attention and fun with words and books are a wonderful vehicle for physical contact and bonding.
  • About 1 in 5 children struggle with phonemic awareness and other disabling issues, so dismissing reading as something that seems as simple as telling "the letter 'b' from the letter 'd' and so on" and saying that "it's something that older children can do without any effort at all," is oversimplification.
  • Many babies learn to read some words before they can speak them.
  • Children have to think in words before they can read them. But they don't necessarily have to speak them before they can read.
  • Teaching your baby or toddler to read joyfully and informally is easier than teaching a child to read formally at age 6.
  • Teach your baby/toddler to read and bring loving physical contact, language, thinking, feelings, bonding, creativity and expression into one simple act. There may be no better way to help your child's brain grow up strong than to teach your child to read joyfully.
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Childcare iPad apps for Sign In/Out, Attendance, Text Alerts and Child Portfolios - 0 views

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  • David McGavock on 04 Jan 13
     
    "We are an exciting startup in the San Francisco Bay area (Santa Clara, CA) providing iPhone apps and web admin tools to Child care centers and preschools. Our apps enable smooth communication between preschools and parents through exchange of photos, email and notifications. Our single touch signin/sigout app allows parents to signin and signout their children from the daycare. We are currently in private beta. Kinderlime improves a preschool operators bottomline by getting the word of mouth through your exisiting families and real time ratio tracking. "
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Fixing My Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Arrowsmith - 0 views

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  • Fixing My Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Arrowsmith Program (52:00) In her youth, Barbara Arrowsmith struggled with a severe learning dysfunction—until she designed a self-improvement regimen aimed at strengthening areas of her brain. This film profiles Arrowsmith, takes viewers inside the school she founded, and follows the progress of four cognitively challenged students enrolled there. Psychology and special education experts articulate diverging opinions of Arrowsmith’s methods—including enthusiasm from Dr. Norman Doidge of Columbia University and skepticism from Dr. Linda Siegel of the University of British Columbia. Displaying a wide range of attitudes among students and parents, the film culminates in a graduation ceremony—and measurable cognitive improvements. (52 minutes)
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Filming Interactions to Nurture Development (FIND) - 0 views

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  • Filming Interactions to Nurture Development (FIND) is a video coaching program that aims to strengthen positive interactions between caregivers and children.
  • If an adult’s responses are consistently unreliable, inappropriate, or simply absent, children may experience disruptions to their physical, mental, and emotional health.
  • FIND coaches film families for 10 minutes as they engage in everyday activities, such as playing a game or having a snack. The coaches then edit down the footage to three brief clips that highlight positive instances of parent-child interaction, and share these with the caregiver in weekly structured coaching sessions.
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  • streamline the process for sending and receiving video files for analysis, resulting in a far more cost-effective solution that maintained participant confidentiality
  • The researchers developed and have employed a protocol for editor certification to ensure the reliability of the edited footage.
  • David McGavock on 23 Sep 15
     
    Using video clips of reciprocal interaction between caregivers. Learning from discussion.
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Three Core Concepts in Early Development - 1 views

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shared by David McGavock on 08 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • David McGavock on 08 Jan 13
     
    "Three Core Concepts in Early Development Healthy development in the early years provides the building blocks for educational achievement, economic productivity, responsible citizenship, lifelong health, strong communities, and successful parenting of the next generation. This three-part video series from the Center and the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child depicts how advances in neuroscience, molecular biology, and genomics now give us a much better understanding of how early experiences are built into our bodies and brains, for better or for worse."
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The Whole Child - ABCs of Child Care - Social - 1 views

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    "Social and Emotional Development abc's of child development for parents for early care providers Social and emotional milestones are often harder to pinpoint than signs of physical development. This area emphasizes many skills that increase self-awareness and self-regulation. Research shows that social skills and emotional development (reflected in the ability to pay attention, make transitions from one activity to another, and cooperate with others) are a very important part of school readiness"
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Child Development & Early Childhood Development Advice . PBS Parents | PBS - 1 views

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    "Child Development Tracker Use the Child Development Tracker to get insights on the stages of growth. Select an Age:"
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