Books for Parents and Caregivers

* Jana, L. A., & Shu, J. (2005). Heading home with your newborn:
From birth to reality. American Academy of Pediatrics.

This is a handbook for novice mother. The information includes
the pro and con of breastfeeding and bottle feeding; spitting and
vomiting, and sleeping.

* Huggins, K. (2005). The nursing mother’s companion. Boston:
Harvard Common press.

This book provides survival guides of taking care babies for mothers
including the chronological idea from pregnancy to toddlers.

* Sears, R., & Sears, J. (2003).The baby book: Everything you need to
know about your baby from birth to age two. New York: Random House.

The topics covered concepts of parent-child bonding, baby’s development
and sleep, the way to sooth fussy baby and their emotional development.
It is a rich and an invaluable resource that will help parents get the most
out of parenting for themselves and their child, and for their entire families.

* Karp, H. (2004). The happiest baby on the block: The new way to calm
crying and help your baby sleep longer (DVD & book). New York: Random House.

The author reveals an extraordinary treasure sought by parents--
an automatic “off-switch” for their baby’s crying. In an innovative and
thought-provoking reevaluation of early infancy,

* Zigler, E. F., Singer, D. G., & Bishop-Josef, S. J. (2004). Children’s play:
The roots of reading. Washington, DC: Zero to Three Press.

Extensive empirical research has documented the value of play for both
cognitive andsocial development in this book. Readers can also find a
comprehensive summary of the developmental, and ideas for how to play
imaginative games with children.

* Harms, T., Cryer, D., & Clifford, R. C. (2003). Infant toddler
environment rating scales-revised edition. New York, NY: Teacher
College Press.

The ITERS- R provides an assessment of the space and furnishing,
personal care outlines, listening and talking, activities, teacher-children
inter actions, and program structure in classes of children from birth to 30
months of age.

* Siegel, D. J., & Hartzell, M. (2004). Parenting from the Inside Out: How
a deeper self-understanding can help you raise children who thrive.
New York: Penguin.

The authors emphasize that parent’s childhood experience has a profound
subconscious influence on parent-children interaction. Parents’
self-understanding is the way to realize how their traumatic experience
has immense effect on parent- children’s relationship since children in
very young age.

* Texas Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) Program -Handbook for
parents
http://www.dars.state.tx.us/ecis/publications/EnglishHandbook.pdf

The ECI handbook provides the information for parents. The handbooks
also present there steps to help family with developmental delay child to
obtain the services. If the child is eligible for the ECI service and the first
step are referral, careen and evaluation or assessment.