5 Steps for Brain-Building: Serve and Return
This video explains and illustrates five steps of "serve and return" interactions that are core to responsive caregiving and needed for brain building. The five steps are:
1) share the focus;
2) support and encourage;
3) name it;
4) take turns; and
5) practice endings and beginnings. How relevant or applicable are these 5 steps in your context?
How could you use an every day routine to support a caregiver to practice serve and return interactions?

More information:
  • 5 steps for brain building serve and return (article)
  • 5 steps serve and return resource guide
  • Video in Spanish
  • Video in Portuguese
  • Adaptation for New Zealand

    Length: 6 min 38 sec
    Organization: Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University
    Year: 2019
    Language: English
    Web link: https://youtu.be/KNrnZag17Ek?si=B6yeIiqNlC6urK8K

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