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| Resource Name | Description | Resource Type |
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| Fire Safety in Child Care: Special Considerations for Children with Disabilities | Practical advice for implementing intentional fire safety in childcare settings to make individualized accommodations and ensure the safety of children with disabilities. | Tipsheet |
| For Parents--Understanding the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) | This episode helps equip parents who are searching for child care options for children with unique needs. We discuss the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the supports related to the law, and how parents can begin building a relationship with potential child care providers by using open-ended questions to gather the information needed to set their child up for success. | Podcast |
| Guide to Creating Inclusive Child Care Spaces | From the Minnesota Department of Human Services, this guide includes easy steps and resources child care providers and early educators can take to make their spaces more inclusive to children with disabilities. Creating Inclusive Child Care Spaces is a guide to help providers think more inclusively about children with disabilities, and provides easy-to-access steps and free resources to improve care for children with disabilities. Creating inclusive spaces is especially important for children with disabilities, whose families often struggle to find care that meets their needs. As an educator, you can positively impact these families and grow your business by providing quality child care. Learn more by reading the guide. | Document |
| How to Work with Personal Care Assistants | This article offers tips about being a supervisor for PCAs as well as how to manage relationships with PCAs. Also, it covers information about personal managers, that is, a second supervisor who handles more responsibilities that a person with disabilities is unable to due to his/her limitations. | Document |
| IDEA Fact Sheet | A federal education law originally passed in 1975. IDEA requires schools to give special education and related services to kids with disabilities who need them. It covers kids from birth through high school. | Document |
| Inappropriate Use of Restraint and Seclusion: Initiative to Protect Children with Disabilities | This press release from the U.S. Department of Education (January 17, 2019) describes new initiatives to address and govern the use of restraint and seclusion on recipients of Section 504, Title II and Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) accommodations and services. Compliance reviews, data collection, and technical assistance to enforce the legal obligations of states and school districts are mentioned as methods for improving results and outcomes for children with disabilities. The Office for Civil Rights (OCR), in partnership with the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), will oversee this initiative. | Document |
| Including Children with Disabilities in State Pre-K Programs | This policy brief is an overview of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and recommends policies to help ensure that preschool-aged children with disabilities receive an appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment. | Document |
| Integrated Recreation: A Review of Best Practices | Integrated Recreation: A Review of Best Practices This document was developed to assist community-based recreation providers to implement inclusive recreation programs for children with and without disabilities. | Document |
| Integration Checklist | Teachers who create accessible environments for children with disabilities "talk straight, look good, go with the flow, and act cool." This checklist helps disabilities coordinators, teachers, and staff members understand how to make sure children can communicate, socialize, and engage in their Head Start settings and activities. | Document |
| Meal Time--Magic or Mayhem: Part Three | In the conclusion of our series on daily activities in child care programs, we will talk about the benefits to children with and without disabilities that come from meal time. This is another area of the day when challenging behaviors can take our focus from what we are trying to accomplish like community-building, sharing, emotional regulation and other skills. What can you do when a child eats more slowly than their peers? What about a child who takes someone else’s food? Listen to this lively discussion of the important part of the day. | Podcast |
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