Welcome to The Children’s Hour Infant/Toddler Development Program (CHA-I/T) at Jean Road Campus. Our mission is to serve infants, toddlers and their families with unparalleled developmental opportunities. Nurturing, educated, and experienced teachers structure learning environments that are conducive to a child’s individual nature. By being attuned to each child, a bond of trust is formed; that is the foundation for our Continuum of Care Philosophy. This is achieved while maintaining the highest level of respect, safety, and accountability.

The principles of child development are categorized into seven developmental domains: regulatory/sensory organization, cognitive, language, and gross motor, fine motor, social-emotional, and self-help. As Early Childhood Educators, we continually assess and plan curriculum for the individual child through detailed observations. These observational tools are curriculum based. Moreover, these detailed assessments provide us a better understanding of a child’s developmental progress in each domain. There are 58 conceptual strands and 685 core skills and behaviors. Each of these strands includes a specific skill that focuses upon a specific underlying key concept and is hierarchical in nature. Through direct observations and anecdotal notes, the teacher completes a formal assessment fall, winter and late spring.