Initial Planning for Inclusion
Participants discuss specific strategies and practices for initially planning to include a child with a disability in early care and education in collaboration with early intervention.
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.
Participants discuss specific strategies and practices for initially planning to include a child with a disability in early care and education in collaboration with early intervention.
This session is designed to help participants consider issues that arise when including infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families in early care and education programs.
Participants explore strategies that service providers can use to support families and ensure smooth transitions between infant/toddler services and preschool services.
The Christopher's Story video is used in this session to consider what "inclusive services" means and can look like for a young child with a disability and his family.
In this session, explore strategies for addressing staff concerns as they work with families and other service providers in identifying disabilities in young children and in sharing that information with families.
This session builds on the previous and asks participants to consider their individual, program, and community visions for including young children with disabilities and their families.
This resource is intended as the first step toward helping participants explore a vision of inclusion in programs and communities, based on images and ideas from programs throughout the country.
These sessions are rooted in the key concept of "belonging." They examine the beliefs and attitudes that influence and affect adults and children in inclusive settings, and provide practical strategies and tools.
This training guide is designed to strengthen the inclusion of young children with disabilities and their families in programs serving infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.
This in-service suite provides strategies for using adult support. These strategies can be used to increase the participation of children who need more support or challenge. Also, find examples that illustrate what the strategies look like in the classroom.