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Inclusion and Early Childhood Education

Inclusion and Early Childhood Education. Population of Young Children with Special Needs. Birth to age 8 Children with developmental delays Biologically at-risk Person first language Needs similar to all children Food, shelter, love, opportunities to play, learn and grow.

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Inclusion and Early Childhood Education

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  1. Inclusion and Early Childhood Education

  2. Population of Young Children with Special Needs • Birth to age 8 • Children with developmental delays • Biologically at-risk • Person first language • Needs similar to all children • Food, shelter, love, opportunities to play, learn and grow

  3. Classification of student with special needs • IDEA-13 catagories under law • Developmental delay-young children with special needs

  4. What Early Childhood Educators Should Know about students with Special Needs • Look at the individual child • Disorders do not occur in isolation • Diagnosis may suggest a broad and diverse amount of interventions • Knowledge about various conditions is crucial • Focus on the “whole”child

  5. Inclusion • Students attend home school with their age and grade peers • Services and education occurs in natural environments • Proportion of students labeled for special services is relatively uniform for all of the schools within a particular school district • Ration reflects the proportion of people with disabilities in society at large • Students receive in- school educational services in general classroom with appropriate in-class support to maximum extent possible (NASBE)

  6. Benefits of Preschool Inclusion

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