This course focuses on the advanced health, hygiene and safety of infants and toddlers and children who need extra support in childcare settings. Students will analyze children's rights including cultural and individual needs, abuse indicators and vulnerabilities of infants and toddlers and children with exceptionalities.
Prerequisites
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What you will learn
- 1. Prevention, intervention, and assessment strategies to promote health, hygiene, illness management and injury/accident mitigation specific to infants, toddlers and children with extra support needs
- 2. Children's rights regarding health, safety, and nutrition in a child care context
- 3. Abuse and neglect in infants, toddlers and children requiring extra support: identification and report
- 4. Food Safe procedures in meal planning and adaptation of meal plans for children with specific nutritional needs
- 5. Ways of incorporating knowledge of health, safety and nutrition policies and practice into program planning
How to register
This course is offered as part of a VCC program only.
Course schedules
Select your program to see the available course schedules.
Contact us
If you have any question, please email at advising@vcc.ca.
† This information is intended as a guideline only. Program and course details are subject to change with the approval of VCC's Board of Governors.