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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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| Resource Name | Description | Resource Type |
|---|---|---|
| Easter Seals Disability Services | Expanding and developing new child care centers that provide services to children of all abilities is a challenging proposition. Easter Seals has successfully met that challenge through a national network of Child Development Centers. In our experience, two of the major barriers to the operation of and inclusive model are managing the financial resources available and the development of appropriate facilities. On this website, you can order a "Fiscal and Design Solutions Package" that gives you a financial planning booklet and excel workbook as well as a design guide. With a grant from The Child Care Bureau, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families, Easter Seals has developed two tools to help child care providers address these major barriers to inclusive child care. | Website |
| Easter Seals Project Action | Easter Seals Project Action provides training, resources, and technical assistance to thousands of disability organizations, consumers with disabilities, and local transportation operators. It maintains a resource center with the most up-to-date information on transportation accessibility. Training, fact sheets, and state by state information is available on site. | Website |
| Effective Discipline to Raise Healthy Children | Pediatricians are a source of advice for parents and guardians concerning the management of child behavior, including discipline strategies that are used to teach appropriate behavior and protect their children and others from the adverse effects of challenging behavior. Aversive disciplinary strategies, including all forms of corporal punishment and yelling at or shaming children, are minimally effective in the short-term and not effective in the long-term. With new evidence, researchers link corporal punishment to an increased risk of negative behavioral, cognitive, psychosocial, and emotional outcomes for children. | Document |
| Embedded Learning and Universal Design | Definitions and examples of embedded learning and universal design. | Tipsheet |
| Emergency Planning for Children with Disabilities | How to consider the individual needs of children with special needs when planning and preparing for an emergency event. | Tipsheet |
| Emotional Literacy: Using Feeling Faces | "The Feeling Faces assist children with understanding their feelings and the feelings of others. It is important to teach children words to use to express feelings in replace of the use of challenging behavior. The feeling posters can be used in a variety of ways to help children learn social emotional skills around use of emotional literacy and vocabulary." -National Center for Pyramid Model Innovations (NCPMI) | Document |
| Empowering Generational Greatness (EGG) Toolkit from The Family Partnership | Our guest Trinette Potts from The Family Partnership joins us to share a wonderful toolkit for early educators to support executive function and regulation in young children. This simple-to-use toolkit can support school readiness, buffer children against the harmful effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) and improves lifelong outcomes in physical, mental, and behavioral health that continue to the next generation.Interested in learning more? Please contact:www.eggtoolkit.comTrinette Potts EGG Project Managertpotts@thefamilypartnership.org | Podcast |
| Enabling Devices | The Enabling Devices website has exceptional products for exceptional people: toys for special children. The company is dedicated to developing and providing affordable learning and assistive devices to help people with disabilities. You can shop online as well as register for email updates of new products from Enabling Devices. The site also offers custom products. | Website |
| Engaging with Families | This tip sheet was adapted from the NAEYC article, The 5 Rs for Promoting Positive Family Engagement. Learn how following the Five Rs - Respect, Reassurance and Responsiveness, Relationship, Reciprocity, and Reflection will allow family engagement to begin growing as quickly as the children in your classroom. | Tipsheet |
| Entendiendo los Costos Para Necesidades Especiales de los Programas de Asistencia Para Centro de Cuidado (Understanding Special Needs Rates of the Child Care Assistance Program) | La Tarifa de Necesidades Especiales del Programa de Asistencia de Cuidado Infantil (CCAP) está disponible para niños con necesidades especiales en Minnesota que reciben CCAP y cumplen con los criterios designados. Esta hoja de consejos proporciona una descripción de la Tasa de Necesidades Especiales del Programa de Asistencia de Cuidado Infantil y el proceso para solicitar. The Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) Special Needs Rate is available for children with special needs in Minnesota who receive CCAP and meet designated criteria. This tip sheet provides a description of the Child Care Assistance Program's Special Needs Rate and the process to request. | Tipsheet |
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