| Abstract: | The Child Development Associate (CDA) National Credentialing Program is a major national effort initiated in 1971 to improve the quality of child care by improving, evaluating, and recognizing the competence of child-care providers and home visitors. The Child Development Associate or CDA is a person who is able to meet the specific needs of children and who, with parents and other adults, works to nurture children's physical, social, emotional, and intellectual growth in a child-development framework. The CDA Credential is awarded to child-care providers and home visitors who have demonstrated their skill in working with young children and their families by successfully completing the CDA assessment process.Connie Castiglia Gault is a CDA Trainer/Advisor at Elmira College in Elmira, New York. |
