Education
New Approaches in Early Childhood Development (ECD)
The SHF is currently in the process of reviewing its Early Childhood Development (ECD) initiatives and is consulting with a range of local and international stakeholders – spanning disciplines such as early childhood care and education, child protection, health and nutrition, and family support – to identify the ways in which the Foundation could add the most value to the UAE community in this area in the future.
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Early Childhood Development: Forging New Connections With International Expertise
The Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation’s Early Childhood Development program has continued its popular parenting talks at Manarat Al Saadiyat in 2016. In February, Dr. Heidi Alaskary, Amna Al Yahal and Birgit Ertl spoke on Language Learning Basics: Supporting Your Child in Learning Multiple Languages – a highly relevant topic in the UAE given its culturally and linguistically diverse population.
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Early Childhood Development Program enters its 3rd year
The Fall of 2015 marked the beginning of the third year of the Foundation’s Early Childhood Development Program.
The 2015-2016 Parenting Talk season began with “Autism Symptoms and Early Signs.” Dr. Ahmad M. Almai, Head of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, and Hanan Abdulhamid a parent of a child with autism provided the audience with a multi-faceted discussion on autism.
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Eight Women Recognized for Early Childhood Development Achievements
In its effort to enhance human capacity to create and deliver high-quality services to young children and their families; the Foundation has applauded the first graduating class of 2013-2015 Shamsa bint Mohamed Al Nahyan Fellowship in Early Childhood Development at the end of last May.
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Second Series of Parenting Workshops Successfully Completed
Understanding that supportive and caring interactions between parents and children are key to family stability and happiness and a productive UAE, this spring we launched our second series of Parenting Workshops.
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End of the parenting talk series of this season
The Foundation ended its parenting talk series, part of the Parenting program, with a talk entitled ‘Children, Parents and the Media: Friend or Foe for Families in the Digital and Wireless Age’ presented by Dr Kyle Pruett, clinical professor at Yale Child Study Centre.
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Launch of Parenting Workshops
With our mission of investing in the people of the UAE, in February the Foundation began its parenting workshops within the elaborate Parenting Program of the Early Childhood Development.
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Parenting Talks
The Foundation hosts a series of Parenting Talks held in collaboration with Yale University. These talks are tailored for parents, Early Childhood Development (ECD) professionals, and the UAE community at large.
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Shamsa Bint Mohamed Al Nahyan Fellowship in early childhood education US study trip.
In keeping with the goal to adopt and integrate best international practices of Early Childhood Development (ECD), the Shamsa bint Mohamed Al Nahyan fellowship entailed an exciting Study trip to New Haven, USA for the fellows of Cohort 2. Being trained under the Yale University’s Edward Zigler Center, the fellows commenced their trip on December 2, 2014 and returned on December 12, 2014.
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