Living With a Disability: The Family Perspective

This online self-study course highlights the unique issues that families of young children with special needs face when looking for child care. Explore the family perspective and discuss the topics of grief and ‘loss of dreams.’ Recognize the similarities between all families including those with children with special needs and those without. Demonstrate the need for acceptance and respect of diversity for family structures, values, and members.

• Knowledge and Competency Framework Area(s) - 
  • III: Relationships with Families (10 Hours)
• CDA Content Area(s)- 
  • Content Area IV: Strategies to establish productive relationships with families (10 Hours)
• Level 1 - Explores

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For ten clock hours on your Learning Record, please register and pay online at Develop. Then, complete a 500 word reflection paper and submit this document with your reflection. Please note: You have access to this document as view only. To enable editing, download the document. Click "file" then "download as" in the upper left-hand corner of this screen. This will give you the option to open the document as a Word doc on your own computer. Then, you can complete the information and email it to: credit@inclusivechildcare.org.