Transition in Early Childhood at Age Three for Children with Special Needs
Transition in Early Childhood at Age Three for Children with Special Needs
This PowerPoint™ is designed to assist early educators in understanding transition out of the Early Start early intervention system when a child reaches three years of age.
Overview of California Early Start
Updated July 2015 to reflect changes in state law as of January 2015
This PowerPoint™ is designed to assist early educators in understanding the Early Start early intervention system when a child in their care, birth to age three years of age, has an identified disability or when they have concerns that a child in their care, birth to age three years of age, might have a disability, developmental delay or be at risk for a developmental disability. There are two parts of this resource: the Brief Overview and Journeys Through Early Start that includes stories of three children to illustrate the various ways that children can enter and receive services.
Talking with Parents When You Have Concerns About a Child in Your Care
This PowerPoint™ and accompanying article is designed to provide a framework for caregivers (anyone providing child care or out-of-school care for children) when they have concerns that a child in their care might have a developmental delay, disability, or significant behavior problem; when preparing to share concerns with a child’s parents or family members (anyone raising the child); or in understanding different ways family members will receive and act on an expressed concern.
- Presentation (PPTX)
- Participant Handouts (PDF)
- Trainer Notes in Color (PDF)
- Trainer Notes in Black & White (PDF)
- Article: Talking with Parents When Concerns Arise (PDF)
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National Professional Development Center on Inclusion (NPDCI)
The National Professional Development Center on Inclusion (NPDCI) is working with states to ensure that early childhood teachers are prepared to educate and care for young children with disabilities in settings with their typically developing peers.
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Additional Resources from NPDCI
- Early Childhood Inclusion
Two major early childhood organizations, DEC and NAEYC, created a joint definition and position statement on early childhood inclusion through a process facilitated by the National Professional Development Center on Inclusion (NPDCI). Return here often to discover new resources and examples for using these resources to improve early childhood services. - Foundations of Transition Video
Today, most families of young children use and move between different types of early childhood services — like Head Start, private child care, public preschool, or kindergarten. Moving between and among these various programs is often referred to as ’transition’.” This 8-minute video provides an overview of the desirable outcomes of transition, research identifying effective transition practices, as well as the legal requirements of early childhood transition (running time: 8 min. 19 sec.) - Speaking of Inclusion (Blog)
Inclusion insights, stories and resources for professional development providers as well as practitioners, policy makers and parents. An informative blog brought to you by the National Professional Development Center on Inclusion. Your comments are invited. - Response to Intervention in Early Childhood (RTI-EC)
The NPCDI facilitated a process with The Division for Early Childhood of the Council for Exceptional Children (DEC), the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), and the National Head Start Association (NHSA) to create a reliable source of information on the emerging practice of Response to Intervention in Early Childhood. - Quality Inclusive Practices: Resources and Landing Pads
Provides brief descriptions and supporting references for evidence-based and promising practices that support early childhood inclusion. - Building Inclusive Child Care
Universal Design for Learning rom North Hampton Community College
- Early Childhood Inclusion
Fathers Network
The Fathers Network is a nonprofit organization that serves as an advocate for men and believes they are crucially important in the lives of their families and children. The network provides supports and resources to fathers and families of children with developmental disabilities and chronic illness, as well as to the professionals who serve them.
Disability Is Natural
This Web site created by Kathie Snow includes her widely used article on “people-first language” and other resources to support inclusion. She challenges outdated ways of thinking and helps parents, people with disabilities, and professionals acquire new perceptions and attitudes—the first rung on the ladder of change.
Center for Inclusive Child Care (CICC)
The mission of the Center for Inclusive Child Care is to create, promote and support pathways to successful inclusive care for all children. The project is a comprehensive resource network for promoting and supporting inclusive early childhood and school-age programs and providers. We provide leadership, administrative support, training, and consultation to early care and education providers, school-age care providers, parents, and the professionals who support providers and parents of children with special needs. The Center for Inclusive Child care envisions weaving the common threads of knowledge, respect and sensitivity to create and sustain opportunities for high quality, culturally responsive inclusive care in which children and their families are supported and nurtured.
- Bullying in Preschool – Tip Sheet (PDF) October 2018
Being bullied means to be exposed, repeatedly and over time, to negative actions on the part of one or more students. It may also include an imbalance of power. And research indicates that a child with a disability is more likely to be physically or verbally bullied than his typically developing peers. This tip sheet includes signs of bullying behavior and strategies for extinguishing bullying. - Resources to support transitions Oct 2018
- Tip Sheet: The Use of Visual Supports in Early Care and Education Oct 2018
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Additional Resources from CICC
- 10 minute Podcasts on Use of Visual Supports: One for preschoolers and one for Infants and Toddlers Oct 2018
- Tip Sheet: Attachment in Early Care and Education (PDF)
- Inclusion Matters Podcasts
Inclusion Matters is a new product of CICC in the form of podcasts about 10 minutes each on the full range of inclusion topics in an engaging, easy to listen to format. Podcasts are available for listening on the website and for download on itunes. CEU’s are available for podcasts. - Inclusion: Embedded Learning and Universal Design Definitions and Strategies-Self Study Course
Universal design is the design of products and environments to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for additional adaptation or specialized design. This self-study will discuss the philosophy and strategies for universal design and embedded learning.
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) is the professional, scientific, and credentialing association for more than 103,000 audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists. ASHA’s mission is to ensure that all people with speech, language, and hearing disorders have access to quality services to help them communicate more effectively.
National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is the nation’s largest organization of early childhood professionals and others dedicated to improving the quality of early childhood education programs for children birth through age eight. NAEYC’s primary goals are to improve professional practice and working conditions in early childhood education and to build public understanding and support for high-quality early childhood programs.
- Every Child Belongs: Welcoming a Child with a Disability May 2019
- 10 Things Every Parent Should Know About Play Oct 2018
- 12 Ways to Support Language Development for Infants and Toddlers
- Top 10 No Cost Toys for Infants Toddlers and Preschoolers
- Ideas for Bringing Humor to the Classroom
Humor reflects our joy. And for children and adults alike, it’s a wonderful way of reducing stress. Humor helps put things in perspective. Encouraging children to see the humor in life is one of the greatest gifts you can give them. You will be enriching their spirit as well as making learning fun. You and the children can enjoy these activities together.
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Additional NAEYC Resources
- The Word Gap: The Early Years Make a Difference
A recent study shows that children’s vocabulary skills are linked to their economic backgrounds. This article explain the study and give 9 recommendations for early care and education providers on how they can close “the word gap”. - Position Statements including the DEC/NAEYC Joint Statement on Early Childhood Inclusion
Cultural Competency & Family Engagement
- The First Step for Addressing Bias is Infant and Toddler Programs, Young Children, November 2017
- Moving Beyond Anti-Bias Activities: Supporting the Development of Anti-Bias Practices
- Cultural Competence
Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) Implementation - Engaging Diverse Families
Engaging Diverse Families (EDF) is helping early childhood education programs effectively engage diverse families. Our goal is to learn how excellent early childhood education programs are effectively engaging diverse families and to share what we learn with other programs struggling to start and sustain family engagement practices. - I Dream of the Day
Isauro Michael Escamilla, M.A., an Early Childhood Education Teacher Researcher from the San Francisco Unified School District, spoke at the closing session of NAEYC’s Institute for Professional Development in San Francisco this year. Here is a particularly moving excerpt.
Healthy Mind, Health Body
- The Word Gap: The Early Years Make a Difference
A recent study shows that children’s vocabulary skills are linked to their economic backgrounds. This article explain the study and give 9 recommendations for early care and education providers on how they can close “the word gap”. - Position Statements including the DEC/NAEYC Joint Statement on Early Childhood Inclusion
- Big Body Play: Why Boisterous, Vigorous, and Very Physical Play Is Essential to Children’s Development and Learning
A book on encouraging physical activity for children, by Frances M. Carlson. - Increasing Children’s Physical Activity (PDF)
- Our Collection of Children’s Songs
- 10 Ways Baby’s Learn When We Sing to Them
Listening skills, new words, and so much more - Playing with Music at Home
Tips to explore music and connect it to children’s learning
- 10 Ways Baby’s Learn When We Sing to Them
Policy/Trends
- Public Policy Overview
NAEYC promotes national, state and local public policies that support a system of well-financed, high quality early childhood education programs in a range of settings, including child care centers, family child care homes, and schools.
Social-Emotional & Behavior
- Promoting Social–Emotional Development: Helping Infants Learn About Feelings (PDF)
Starting from birth, infants begin learning how to make sense of their world through interactions with caregivers. Responsive caregiving-which involves caregiver reflecting and validating a child’s feelings and behaviors-help very young children makes sense of their world. Over time, children who have this type of nurturing, reflective care better regulates their emotions. - 10 Tips for Raising a Compassionate Toddler
Recent research shows that infants and toddlers are far more empathetic than we once thought. While they have short fuses, and don’t cope well with sharing, they are capable of being compassionate. With this in mind, here are ten tips I use in the classroom to help infants and toddlers become pro-social that families can also try at home. - NAEYC Radio
NAEYC and BAM Radio Network partnered to bring NAEYC Radio. The program was developed to bring the best and latest insights on early childhood education directly to parents and educators. - 10 tips for Raising a Compassionate Infant Toddler
- Helping Infants Learn About Feelings (PDF)
- Standing Together Against Suspension and Expulsion Joint Policy Statement (PDF)
A group of more than 30 national organizations recently published a joint statement, Standing Together Against Suspension and Expulsion in Early Childhood: A Joint Statement (April 2016), which supports the recommendations from the U.S. Departments of Education and Health and Human services in their December 2014 Joint Policy Statement on Expulsion and Suspension. The organizations have also compiled a number of related resources to help states, districts, communities, and classrooms prevent, limit, and ultimately eliminate suspension and expulsion in early childhood education. - Caring Relationships: The Heart of Early Brain Development By Ron Lally and Peter Mangione
- The Word Gap: The Early Years Make a Difference
Infant Development Association of California (IDA)
The Infant Development Association of California (IDA) is a multidisciplinary organization of parents and professionals committed to optimal developmental and positive social and emotional outcomes for infants, birth to three, with a broad range of special needs and their families. IDA advocates improved, effective prevention and early intervention services while providing information, education, and training to parents, professionals, decision makers, and others.
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Additional Resources from IDA
- Public Policy
The public policy committee keeps the organization informed about and involved in the public policies and analyzes pressing policy issues related to laws and regulations, communicates key findings and program performance results, and makes recommendations to the organization for appropriate actions in the form of strategies to ensure quality outcomes. - Webinars on the social and emotional development of young children
Training & Technical Assistance
- IDA/MAP Webinar Series
“Ideas Worthy of Replication,” hosted by the Interdisciplinary Collaborations for Quality Committee of the Infant Development Association and co-sponsored by the Infant Development Association and the MAP to Inclusion and Belonging Project of WestEd Center for Child and Family Studies. The goals of this webinar series are to bring attention to quality trainings and programs rooted in the concepts and knowledge areas of the California Competencies documents including: - IDA/MAP Webinar Series Recordings
This series will inspire others to develop similar programs or training to make them more accessible to others throughout the state. Each recording last just under an hour.- Caring for Parents: Elements and Models of Support Recorded: 04/07/2014
- Mindful Leadership: Leading with You in Mind Recorded: 11/13/2014
- Talking to Parents When Conerns Arise Recorded: 05/19/2015
- Supporting Young Children’s Behavior: The Hourglass Model Recorded: 10/13/2015
- Tips for Supporting and Communicating with the Nonverbal Child
Recorded: 5/26/2016
- Public Policy