Samantha's Story: Preschool Inclusion Success
This session provides two options for using the embedded video to identify aspects of successful inclusion.
Young children vary in their skills, knowledge, backgrounds, and abilities. Effective teaching requires individualized teaching and chances to learn for all children to access, participate, and thrive in early learning settings. Individualizing for children who need more support helps ensure effective teaching for children with disabilities and other special needs across all the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework domains. Using children’s Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP) and Individualized Education Program (IEP) goals is part of effective teaching, individualizing, and creating inclusive environments to support children’s positive outcomes.
This session provides two options for using the embedded video to identify aspects of successful inclusion.
This session draws upon the experiences of families, service providers, and administrators in preparing for and contributing to Individualized Education Program meetings and in implementing the plans.
This session uses the embedded video as the foundation for learning about an array of resources needed to support the inclusion of a child with a disability.
Participants will explore and discuss how families and service providers can effectively work together to create and support inclusive experiences for preschool-age children who have disabilities.
This section focuses on several aspects of including preschool-age children who have disabilities in programs and settings with their typically developing peers.
Inclusion depends on coordinated services. This section provides a comprehensive set of strategies and activities that support high-quality collaboration and teaming between family members and service providers.
This session builds on the Collaboration and Teaming section and focuses on a framework, guide, and strategies for enhancing team functioning.
This session explores ideas for working together as teams to best serve infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families.
This session builds on earlier sessions and focuses on identifying community resources and building relationships among programs in communities.
This session highlights the issues involved in building collaborative relationships among service providers and families.