Inclusion

Understanding Early Childhood Mental Health: A Practical Guide for Professionals

vsheehan@naeyc.org — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:57:26 -0400

Enhance child outcomes by weaving best practices in mental health into early childhood services. This accessible text from more than a dozen top experts gives early childhood professionals a primer on key issues in infant mental health and research-based guidelines for practice. From Brookes Publishing.

Challenging Behavior in Young Children: Understanding, Preventing, and Responding Effectively (3d ed.)

root — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:01:28 -0400

The revised 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.

Come and Play: Sensory-Integration Strategies for Children with Play Challenges

vsheehan@naeyc.org — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:16:51 -0500

Play is necessary for children to learn and developmentally thrive. For this reason, early intervention is vital in addressing and redirecting play challenges that may appear in young children. This book addresses five common play challenges and provides key intervention guidelines and sample play plans for each challenge. These play challenges include children who:

A Place of Our Own: Special Needs (DVD)

vsheehan@naeyc.org — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:03:41 -0400

Host Debi Gutierrez leads engaging discussions with parents, caregivers and child care experts about caring for children with special needs. Topics include recognizing and understanding special needs, speech and language delays, hearing and visual impairments, and autism. 97 min. From KCET.

Los Niños en su Casa: Necesidades Especiales (DVD)

vsheehan@naeyc.org — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:50:08 -0400

In this Spanish translation of "A Place of Our Own: Special Needs", host Debi Gutierrez leads engaging discussions with parents, caregivers and child care experts about caring for children with special needs. Topics include recognizing and understanding special needs, speech and language delays, hearing and visual impairments, and autism. 97 min. From KCET.

DEC Recommended Practices Toolkit: Interactive Tools to Improve Practices for YC with Special Needs and Their Families (CD)

vsheehan@naeyc.org — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:38:39 -0400

A great resource to accompany the Guide and Workbook! This CD includes four toolkits: embedded instruction, systematic teaching strategies, teaching early communication skills, and monitoring children's learning. Each toolkit consists of a self-paced tutorial in which you will learn more about the practices by watching video clips, taking self-tests, exploring resources, and more. From the Division for the Early Childhood of the Council for Exceptional Children.

CARA's Kit: Creating Adaptations for Routines and Activities

root — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:01:31 -0400

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.

Child Care and Children with Special Needs (DVD)

root — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:02:43 -0400

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.

I Belong: Active Learning for Children with Special Needs

root — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:02:27 -0400

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.

DEC Recommended Practices: A Comprehensive Guide for Practical Applications in Early Intervention/Early Childhood Special Ed.

root — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:02:31 -0400

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.