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Early Learning Resources to Share with Caregivers (Spanish) The HealthySteps Early Learning handouts follow the well-child visit schedule, including the newborn visit, and suggest no- and low-cost activities to enhance caregivers’ ability to stimulate their baby’s development and promote school readiness. Handouts are available in English and Spanish. Website
Early Risers Podcast: What’s Happening in the Classroom? Early Childhood Educators and Implicit Bias About a quarter of all children in the United States younger than five years old attend some kind of formalized childcare. Early childhood programs can be a great way for children to start learning about the world, including how to build relationships with other children and adults. But part of this learning also involves absorbing the implicit biases in their environment, including unconscious assumptions about race. This is a link to a Early Risers Podcast produced by Little Moments Count. Website
Early Signs of Learning Challenges "It can be hard to tell if a preschool-age child is likely to have a learning disability. When kids are young, they develop skills at different speeds, and kids have different strengths and weaknesses. As they get older their abilities usually even out."  Learn more in this article from the Child Mind Institute. Website
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
Educator Strategies: Supporting Children with Incarcerated Parents This tip sheet offers guidance for educators on using trauma-informed practices to create stable, supportive environments for children affected by parental incarceration. Tipsheet
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
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