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Toddlers

Creativity, Inventiveness, and Imagination

Creativity, Inventiveness, and Imagination

Early Learning Moments
mom and child playing with blocks

Early Intervention

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mom and child playing with blocks

Including Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities in Child Care

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child playing with other children

Self-Regulation: Foundation of Development

Early Learning Moments
baby crying

Social and Emotional Development

Early Learning Moments
Rounding Up the Cows

Rounding Up the Cows

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Let’s Write a Grocery List

Let’s Write a Grocery List

Parenting Videos
Cognitive Development

Cognitive Development

Early Learning Moments
Language Development, Communication, and Literacy

Language Development, Communication, and Literacy

Early Learning Moments
Physical Development and Health

Physical Development and Health

Early Learning Moments
Toddlers and Tantrums

Toddlers and Tantrums

Resource Lists
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Tech Time for Infants and Toddlers

Graphic Tip Sheets, Infant/toddler Tip Sheets, Tip Sheets
Autism: Be Aware of the Signs

Autism: Be Aware of the Signs

Infant/toddler Tip Sheets, Tip Sheets
Boy dressed in a cape holding a broom with cooking pot on his head and holding the pot’s lid in his other hand like a shield

Play With Your Toddler—Indoors

Graphic Tip Sheets, Infant/toddler Tip Sheets, Tip Sheets

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About IEL

The Illinois Early Learning Project Web site is a source of evidence-based, reliable information on early care and education for parents, caregivers, and teachers of young children in Illinois.

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