What Does it Mean to be One?

This fully updated edition helps practitioners in understanding the distinction in the 2012 revised EYFS between the prime and specific areas of development for one-year olds. It considers key issues in a well-rounded assessment of individual ones and includes a useful checklist to help practitioners prepare for the assessment of ones. This book gives advice on how to: use sensory materials to develop motor skills; best encourage communication skills, and the importance of chatting to even very young babies; and support babies when upset and along their journey towards self-regulation.