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Our Resource Library contains materials and assistance for early childhood educators and those they serve. Explore our selection of podcasts, tip sheets, websites, documents, and self-study courses.
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Inclusion--The Foundation of Our Practice: Part One [Kamidnoqoshada: Waa aasaaska shaqadeena (Qaybta koowaad)] | Waxaan si gaar ah ogabeeraan dagaynaa macluumaad ay soo saareen DEC iyo NAEYC oo ah ururo lashaqeeya caruurta. Macluumaadkaasoo ah bayaankooda wadajirka iyo sida macluumaadkaas nooga caawinayo kobcinta kamidnoqoshoda goobta xanaanada iyo waxbarashada. Sidoo kale, muhiimadda ay leedahay tageerada, kaqaybqaadashada iyo helitaanka fursadaha macluumaadkaan ayaa aas’aas u’ah baahida caruurta iyo shaqaalaha una ah xumin culus in lagu guulaysto kamidnoqoshada goobta wax barashada ubadka yar yar. | Podcast |
Inclusion: Developmentally Appropriate Care for All Young Children | This tip sheet covers the importance of creating inclusive and developmentally appropriate early child care programs through creating access, participation, and supports for young children with special needs. | Tipsheet |
Inclusion: Six Essential Program Practices | High-quality relationship-based care is central to children’s early brain development, emotional regulation, and learning (Center on the Developing Child, 2012). One of the Program for Infant/Toddler Care (PITC) six essential program practices for promoting this type of care is inclusion of infants and toddlers with special needs (PITC, n.d., a). | Document |
Inclusive Schools: Good for Kids, Families & Community | The Inclusive Schools website highlights the progress of our nation's schools in providing a supportive and quality education to an increasingly diverse student population, while offering educators, students, and parents an opportunity to discuss what else needs to be done to ensure that their schools continue to improve their ability to successfully educate all children. There is a downloadable Celebration Kit for the National Inclusive Schools Week. There is an online forum as well as several good articles on the positive affects of inclusion. | Website |
Individualized Care: Six Essential Program Practices | Document | |
Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA): What You Need to Know | As the nation’s special education law, IDEA provides rights and protections to children with disabilities and to their parents. | Website |
Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities | "This resource collection from the Head Start Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center is focused on understanding and using highly individualized teaching strategies to meet the unique learning needs of infants and toddlers with disabilities. Use these resources as professional development tools for staff who are supporting inclusion for infants and toddlers with disabilities and suspected delays across early learning programs and environments." | Website |
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 |
Joyful ABC Activity Booklets | The National Museum of African American History and Culture created the Joyful ABC Activity Booklet series. This series invites caregivers and educators to support children’s positive identity development while also growing their language and literacy skills with activities, museum objects and new words based on characteristics featured in the book, A is for All the Things You Are: A Joyful ABC Book. | Website |
Know Your Worth and Then Add the BAS: An Advocacy Tool for Family Child Care Providers | Here is a helpful resource from the McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership: The Business Administration Scale for Family Child Care (BAS) is a tool that empowers providers to know and claim their worth—including the tax. | Document |
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