Sharing Web Resources

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The web resource that I decided to check out was Zero to Three, I had done a little research and reading on it awhile back for a class. I thought this would be a good time to check it out again. Checking it out I seen several links to different spots, I seen one that caught my eye and it was some letters MIECHV TACC. So curiosity caught the best of me, they stood for Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting. What this program is for they visit the home of families to safeguard the health and safety of women, infants, and children. We have a program like that and it is called Healthy Families.

Another site I looked at was Early Head Start and looked over the cultural and linguistic responsiveness. The thing that I thought was they have a Head Start Bilingual Glossary which is a list of the most common terms used in the Head Start program. This is a glossary created to promote accurate and reliable translations from English to Spanish. With the Spanish language being rich and diverse, it is always a challenge to find common terms that most Spanish speakers in the U.S. will understand so in some cases multiple translations are provided to accommodate regional differences in usage.  Here are just a few examples:

school bus autobús escolar   Temporary Assistance to Needy Families Programa de Ayuda Temporal a Familias role play dramatización, juego de roles
sensory and motor skills destrezas o habilidades sensoriales y motoras sensory disorders trastornos sensoriales sensory screening prueba de detección de trastornos sensoriales, cribado de trastornos sensoriales
snack refrigerio, merienda Social and Emotional Development Desarrollo Social y Emocional social services servicios sociales social skills habilidades sociales software software

When I looked up the equity and excellence I found a few things that they are trying to do. They found some barriers and came up some changes. They were to empower and support communities; shift from family involvement to culturally competent family engagement; reduce language barriers by providing materials in native language. Another thing is they want to do is expand the supply of qualified, bilingual, and bicultural birth-to-three professionals.  Another change that they had want to make was to make available information and empower parents by helping them understand child development, ways to advocate for learning, and how to become their child's advocate whom I think is very important to help children succeed.

http://zerotothree.org/