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• Inclusion
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• Preschool Initiatives
• Professional Early Childhood Organizations
• Reports and Research

• Infants and Toddlers
  Tot and Tool’s provides up-to-date information and resources about Assistive Technology to use with infants and toddlers, Supports for early Intervention providers of all disciplines, and families across the country.
• Adapting Play Activities
  Let’s Play Projects provide ideas and strategies to promote play through better access to play materials, and use assistive technology to give the children with disabilities this critical access.
• Adapting Academics
  • Board Maker templates created by Burnaby Teachers to use and down load at no charge, must have Board Maker to download and use; Farm Animal, Feelings, Field Trips, Math, Daily Schedule, Pets, Jungle Animals, and Weather
  • Kindergarten Lessons—get ideas and suggestions for lessons you can use for Math, Science, Reading and Writing fun!
  • Project Participate—Gadgets and Gizmos to support inclusion for: play, writing, home, reading and communication
• Literacy-Reading
  • The Story Place is the ultimate children’s digital library.
  • Do to Learn preposition game for computer-need to use mouse for activity.
  • Speakaboos songs and stories aloud on the computer—or you can record your own
  • Tumble Book Library is an online collection of animated, talking picture books which teach young children the joys of reading in a format they'll love.
  • New York City Department of Education - adapted books you can make—must have Board Maker to down load and print.
  • Baltimore City Schools adapted books - must use Board Maker to print and open has many adapted books at various levels
  • Literature based communication boards - ideas and strategies to use.  Includes a list of repetitive lined books.
  • Interactive adapted story books for pre-kindergarten, you must have Board Maker to down load
• Math
  • Do to Learn numbers, matching numbers, shapes and math games
  • Do to Learn shape activities
• Communication Strategies
  • Connectability visual communication strategies and  information  to improve communication skills for children.
  • Do to Learn visuals supports for teaching waiting skills for various activities.
  • First Then choice board template  and a social story around feelings with Board Maker Miami Dade County Public Schools.

• Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice
  Check out our extensive collection of web links related to emotional and behavioral problems in such areas as education, families, mental health, juvenile justice, child welfare, early intervention, school safety, and legislation.
   
• Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning is intended to promote the social emotional outcomes and enhance the school readiness of low-income children birth to age 5, and to serve as a national resource center for disseminating research and evidence-based practices to Head Start and Child Care programs across the country.
   
• Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports - The TA Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports has been established by the Office of Special Education Programs, US Department of Education to give schools capacity-building information and technical assistance for identifying, adapting, and sustaining effective school-wide disciplinary practices.
   
• Teaching Tools for Young Children with Challenging Behavior provides assistance for teachers to problem solve and create a plan to support young children with challenging behavior.
   
• The Center for Evidence-Based Practice: Young Children with Challenging Behavior is funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs to raise the awareness and implementation of positive, evidence-based practices and to build an enhanced and more accessible database to support those practices.
   

• Demystifying Learning Disabilities
  NCLD's Parent Center dispels the myths and misconceptions with accurate information about learning disabilities.
   
• Desired Results Developmental Profile-ACCESS
  The Desired Results access Project supports special educators, administrators, and families in implementing the California Department of Education's Desired Results Assessment System for preschool-age children with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs). This site provides you with a wealth of essential information and resources.
   
• Desired Results Reference Materials and Forms
  This selection of Desired Results assessment materials and forms is a comprehensive program evaluation system designed to measure California Department of Education funded child development contractor effectiveness
   
• NCLD's LD Checklist of Sign and Symptoms provides a framework for identifying and addressing specific areas of concern. Although it does not diagnose learning disabilities, NCLD's LD Checklist can act as a tool for educators to engage parents of students they suspect may have a learning disability.
   
• Parenting Issues
  Real-life strategies to increase success.
   
• Position Statement-Developmentally Appropriate Practice - Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth through Age 8 (Adopted 2009). This statement is intended to complement NAEYC’s other position statements on practice, which include Early Learning Standards and Early Childhood Curriculum, Assessment, and Program Evaluation, as well as the Code of Ethical Conduct and NAEYC Early Childhood Program Standards and Accreditation Criteria.
   
• Recognition & Response for pre-school is based on an approach called Response to Intervention (RTI) designed for school-age children who are at risk for learning disabilities. RTI emphasizes early intervening rather than waiting until children fail. Teachers use early and intensive interventions in the general education classroom before they refer children with learning difficulties for further assessment and special education services.
   
• Special Education Early Childhood Administrators Project (SEECAP) SEECAP is a special project of the California Department of Education, Special Education Division and is coordinated by the San Diego County Office of Education, Early Education Services and Programs Unit. This professional development project was instituted in support of research indicating that there is a direct relationship between quality early intervention programs and the knowledge, skills and attitudes of the administrators who run those programs.
   
• Supporting Early Education Delivery Systems (SEEDS) The SEEDS Project offers training and technical assistance to administrators, staff, and families involved in early childhood special education programs serving children ages birth to five in LEAs throughout California.
   
• The Law and LD
  Learn how education laws can help you protect a child's rights and promote their academic achievement. 
   
• The Toys R Us Toy guide for Differently Abled Kids gives suggestions on toys to purchase for different developmental needs and ages for children with special needs
   
• Transitioning to Kindergarten: A Toolkit for Early Childhood Educators is a comprehensive resource for educators that includes tools and materials to help implement strategies to facilitate and enhance children's transition to kindergarten.

• An Administrator’s Guide to Preschool Inclusion – This guide is a result of a five-year national research project funded by the Office of Special Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education to study the inclusion of preschool children with disabilities in typical preschool, day care and community settings.
   
• Beginning together –caring for infants and toddlers with disabilities and special needs in inclusive settings
   
• The California Map to Inclusive Child Care Project seeks to expand opportunities for children with disabilities and other special needs in child care and development programs.
   
• The Circle of Inclusion Web Site is for early childhood service providers and families of young children. This web site offers demonstrations of and information about the effective practices of inclusive educational programs for children from birth through age eight.
   
• Connectability Canada - Provides information, resources and adaptations for children with special needs and disabilities in child care settings.
   
• The costs of preschool inclusion from CSEF
   
• Early Childhood Research Institute on Inclusion - The Early Childhood Research Institute on Inclusion (ECRII) is a five-year national research project funded by the Office of Special Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education to study the inclusion of preschool children with disabilities in typical preschool, day care and community settings.
   
• Inclusion at the Preschool Level: An Ecological Systems Analysis
   
• INCLUSION BLOG - Inclusion insights, stories and resources for professional development providers as well as practitioners, policy makers and parents. A weekly blog brought to you by the National Professional Development Center on Inclusion. Your comments are invited.
   
• Inclusive Education - The Inclusive Education Web Site is designed to help you learn more about inclusion by answering some of the most frequently asked question on inclusion. There is information about teaching in an inclusive classroom and resources for learning more about inclusion. This site is produced by the Renaissance Group, a consortium of universities working to improve the quality of educator preparation.
   
• Inclusive Learning Environments for Students with Special Needs - Inclusive Learning Environments for Students Special Needs is a database serving teachers and school districts in Washington State. This database/website provides information on laws, best practices, examples of programs and recommended resources related to the use of inclusion strategies by school districts for the provision of special education services. It is located in The Building, a database of learning resources.
   
• Joint Position Statement on Inclusion - A Joint Position Statement of the Division for Early Childhood (DEC) and the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) revised (May 2009).
   
• National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center
  The NECTAC Web site provides information for early childhood programs funded under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
   
• National Professional Development Center on Inclusion - The National Professional Development Center on Inclusion (NPDCI) is working with states to create a system of high quality, cross-agency, accessible professional development for early childhood personnel. While NPDCI will serve as a resource to all states, the center will select eight states for more intense collaboration.
   
• Preschool Inclusion Connection
  The purpose of this website is to showcase early childhood programs that are incorporating the "Best Practices" as proposed by National Association Education for Young Children (AEYC) and National Division for Early Childhood (DEC).
   
• SpecialQuest - The focus of SpecialQuest Birth–Five is on inclusion for children with disabilities ages birth through five (pre-kindergarten) and their families, particularly those in Head Start along with Child Care, Early Intervention/Part C, Early Childhood Special Education/619, family support, and other related programs. They have many free materials that you can request or download from their website.
   

• Child Care Law Center-information on American with Disabilities Act, as it relates to child care
   
• Reauthorization of IDEA 2004 - Links to important references and resources on the Reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
   
• No Child Left Behind

• Preschool for All- Preschool California is a broad-based, multi-year, non-partisan advocacy campaign to achieve voluntary preschool for all 4-year-olds in California.
   
• The National Institute for Early Education Research supports early childhood education initiatives by providing objective, nonpartisan information based on research.
   
• Updated information on California's Universal Preschool

• California Association for the Education of Young Children
   
• Division for Early Childhood Special Education
   
• Infant Development Association of California (IDA) a multidisciplinary committed to optimal developmental, social and emotional outcomes for infants, birth to three with a broad range of special needs and their families.
   
• National Association for the Education of Young Children
  The website for the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) had links to a publication guide with many different books and videotapes on curriculum available at low cost.
   
• Zero to Three
  Zero to three to is the nation's leading resources on the first three years of life. We are a national non-profit charitable organization whose aim is to strengthen and support families, practitioners and communities to promote the healthy development of babies and toddlers.

• Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Learn the Signs. Act Early.)
  Learn how to look for developmental milestones and what to do if you’re worried about your child’s development or think there’s a problem. Find information about development and some disabilities as well as free materials.
   
• CLAS Early Childhood Research Institute
  The Early Childhood Research Institute on Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) identifies, evaluates, and promotes effective and appropriate early intervention practices and preschool practices that are sensitive and respectful to children and families from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
   
• National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study (NEILS)
   
• Pre-elementary Education Longitudinal Study (PEELS)

Date last revised: April 1, 2010

CONTACT INFO

Janice Battaglia, Manager, Inclusion Collaborative Phone: (408) 453-6552

Laurie Nielsen, Coordinator Inclusion Training Phone: (408) 453-6554

Nancy Crowe , Assessment Coordinator Phone: (408) 453-6597

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Kathryn Donoho,
Inclusion Collaborative, Administrative Assistant
Phone: (408) 453-6756
Fax: (408) 453-6596

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