CHCECE005 Provide Care for Babies and Toddlers - Assessment

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CHC30113 Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care
CHCECE005 Provide care for babies and toddlers
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31835B/01 Written assessment
Part A - Short answer questions
Student instructions
 Answer each of the following questions.
 To answer questions accurately, you may refer to applicable legislation including the National
Quality Standard and Education and Care Services National Regulations, along with the
Belonging, Being and Becoming – The Early Years Learning Framework, Early Childhood Australia
Code of Ethics, policies and procedures common to early childhood education and care services,
position descriptions detailing an educator’s duty of care responsibilities, and/or other sources
such as professional readings along with the course textbook and identified key resources.
 When referring to early childhood education and care service policies and procedures or position
descriptions, please submit with your assessment to support your answer.
Assessment number Assessment deliverables
31835B/01 Written assessment
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Short answer questions
1. What does the acronym SUDI stand for?
Ans. SUDI stands for sudden unexpected death in infancy.
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2. What does SUDI mean? Provide a brief description of the term, explaining how this type of
death may occur.
Ans. The SUDI is an unexpected death of the babies usually during sleep. It occurs when
there is no reason to cause death. It is sometimes called as crib death it is because the
infants often die in their cribs. SUDI involves the sudden infant death syndrome and fatal
accidents. A baby who is suffering from SUDI can die any time whether day or night but
they mostly die silently when they are sleeping.
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3. What safe sleep practices can early childhood educators adopt to reduce the risk of SUDI?
Identify four practices.
Ans. The sleep strategies which an educator should adopt to reduce the risk of SUDI are as
mentioned:
 They should always keep their baby on their back for sleep or for nap and at night so
as to decrease the risk of developing the SUDI in infants.
 They should keep their babies smoke free prior or after birth.
 It is essential to feed their baby a breastfeeding as this can generally decrease the
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risk of SUDI among babies by more than half.
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4. After each statement below, write what you think the baby might be feeling, wanting, and
needing.
a. A baby is pulling on his ear repeatedly.
Ans. This may be means as a baby is tired or teething. It may also be possible that baby is
feeling some ear infection.
b. A baby turns her head away while being fed at lunchtime.
Ans. This may be possible that a baby does not the food which is present in front of them or
it may be possible that they might not be hungry or they does not want to eat that food.
c. A baby is rubbing his eyes and patting his face.
Ans. It often means that they are feeling tired or want to sleep.
d. A baby sitting on the floor reaches both arms up to the educator.
Ans. If a baby reaches their both arms up to an educator that simply means they wants to be
picked up.
e. A baby is playing with a rattle when he suddenly starts crying.
Ans. A rattle is basically used for the amusement of the babies. As it is given to the babies
in order to develop the hand eye coordination by enhancing their senses.
f. A baby crawls over to another child who is having a bottle, tries to take the bottle off the
other child, and then starts crying.
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