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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
Information for Parents/Families who speak Somali This list was created by the Marion Downs Center Research 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
Lenguaje centrado en la persona Todos merecen dignidad y respeto. Sin embargo, históricamente, nuestras palabras han contribuido a actitudes negativas y tergiversaciones respecto al valor de las personas con discapacidades en nuestra sociedad. Para acabar con la discriminación (en el trabajo, en la escuela y en nuestras comunidades), es importante dejar de usar un lenguaje que niegue el valor, la individualidad y la capacidad de una persona. Como su nombre lo indica, el lenguaje centrado en la persona pone al individuo primero y la discapacidad en segundo lugar. Es una forma objetiva de referirse a las personas con discapacidades. Al centrarse en la persona y no en la discapacidad, pretende acabar con generalizaciones, suposiciones y estereotipos nocivos. Document
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