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High-quality child care environments include children with special needs. This video discusses how to develop and implement an inclusive early childhood setting and provides strategies and techniques to ensure that your center or home truly welcomes all children. 28 min.

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This revised edition contains the information found in the original DEC Recommended Practices about the most useful programs for children with disabilities and other special needs, plus real-life examples and practical tips for implementation. This comprehensive guide includes strategies for program assessment and improvement, useful checklists for parents and administrators, and an annotated list of relevant resources. From Sopris West and the Division for Early Childhood of the Council for Exceptional Children.

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Gives teachers and caregivers strong encouragement and practical help to meet the challenges involved in making inclusion work. Chapters include dealing with your feelings; common feelings about persons with special needs; preparing yourself and the physical environment; the child with special needs; regular activities first; assist with integration; encouraging independence; children with typical needs; working with parents; and working with other agencies.

Gives teachers and caregivers strong encouragement and practical help to meet the challenges involved in making inclusion work. Chapters include dealing with your feelings; common feelings about persons with special needs; preparing yourself and the physical environment; the child with special needs; regular activities first; assist with integration; encouraging independence; children with typical needs; working with parents; and working with other agencies.

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If you feel frustrated and defeated when confronted with a child with very challenging behaviors, here's a lifeline! This reader-friendly book explains the biological and social sources of aggressive behavior and offers easily understandable ideas and strategies proven to prevent and safely diffuse the most challenging behaviors. Includes ways to empower and observe all children. From the Canadian Child Care Federation.

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Sunny colors and a sunny message to brighten both rooms and children?s lives. Embrace inclusion and help all children to be winners. 24?x18?

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The third edition of this perennial favorite provides new research-based strategies to help preservice and practicing teachers understand, prevent, and respond effectively to challenging behaviors. Useful for primary, preschool, and child care educators, this book includes practical tips for responding to children’s needs and helping them know what’s expected. Includes new material on inclusion, autism, culture, and dual-language learning. From Pearson.

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This book looks at the core principles of HighScope's participatory learning approach, in which young children actively construct their knowledge of the world through their interaction with poeple, events, materials, and ideas. Supportive adults are partners in this learning experience, creating a climate in which children become trusting and independent.

The authors—experts in the field of special education with more than 40 years of teaching and therapy experience between them—explore how children with special needs experience the same positive results of the HighScope approach as do their typically developing peers.

This book addresses questions that include:

• How do I use the HighScope curriculum with a child who has an Individualized Education Program?
• How do I problem-solve with a child who has special needs?
• Does the daily routine work for a child with special needs? What sorts of accommodations are necessary?
• Are there ways to effectively integrate curriculum and therapy?

From HighScope Press.

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This two-part DVD is designed for use as an inservice training tool for program directors and caregivers to inspire and inform them in meeting the challenge of caring for children with disabilities. The first part describes how the Americans with Disabilities Act applies to child care programs and documents the experiences of four families and programs that are currently making inclusion work. The second part provides detailed information about how child care programs can interact with parents and special services providers to insure that children with disabilities receive the best possible care. Produced by Video Active Productions. DVD set includes printed training module.

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Sound developmental screening identifies those chidlren who should receive more extensive assessment to determine whether they need additional support for learning. Developmental Screening in Early Childhood covers the basics of selecting an appropriate instrument and setting up a screening program.

The fifth edition includes

• Reviews of six widely used general screening instruments
• Discussion of screening specific areas of development, such as language or cognition
• Reviews of five screens for social and emotional or behavioral concerns
• An annotated bibliography of research and resources

To view the table of contents and introduction, click on Preview Content.

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Promote the participation of all children in the full early childhood curriculum. This kit provides guidance for how to make adaptations for daily activities and routines so that children ages 3–6 with disabilities and other special needs can successfully participate in all classroom activities. Contains a CD with resources and a booklet about adaptations. From the Division for Early Childhood of the Council for Exceptional Children.