Supporting Multilingual Development
The California Department of Social Services, in partnership with WestEd’s Program for Infant/Toddler Care (PITC), is providing the webinar series, Supporting Multilingual Development, on May 7 and 14, 2025.
This no–cost webinar series will explore PITC’s Approach to Language Development, Communication, and Culture for Infants and Toddlers in Group Care Settings.
Join PITC faculty Ann–Marie Wiese and Elizabeth Crocker as they share their learning from more than 30 years of providing services to children and families in multilingual childcare settings, delivering training, and developing resources to support infant care educators in their understanding of multilingual language development for young children.
This free webinar series builds a connection between the understanding of practices that support language development for children who are learning one or more languages. We will explore practical strategies to support language development and opportunities to deepen partnerships with families to learn about their goals for their child’s language development.
PART 1: Language Development, Communication, and Culture
Date: Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Time: 6:30–7:30 p.m. (PT)
Faculty: Ann–Marie Wiese and Elizabeth Crocker
The first webinar explores how infants and toddlers develop language and opportunities to support early language development. Infants and toddlers are active learners of language, and benefit when caregivers facilitate language development by being responsive to infants’ and toddlers’ verbal and non–verbal communications.
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PART 2: Multilingual Development
Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Time: 6:30–7:30 p.m. (PT)
Faculty: Ann–Marie Wiese and Elizabeth Crocker
The second webinar in the series explores the stages of multilingualism and strategies to support language development in partnership with families. With the primary language as the foundation, young children are capable of learning more than one language. We will explore strategies for child care settings to effectively support continued development in the child’s home language, even when the caregivers do not share that language through effective partnerships with families.
- PowerPoint Presentation (PDF) – COMING SOON!
Please contact PITCEvents@wested.org if you have any questions.
REGISTRATIONS FOR THE 2025 PITC WEBINAR SERIES OPEN SOON. PLEASE CHECK BACK SOON.
Note: only one registration is needed to attend both webinars in this series.
For previous webinars, please visit our Past PITC Webinar Events page.