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Our Resource Library contains materials and assistance for early childhood educators and those they serve. Explore our selection of podcasts, tip sheets, websites, documents, and self-study courses.
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Early Childhood Environments: Designing Effective Classrooms | This Module, a DEC-recommended resource, offers information on how to set up effective inclusive early childhood classroom environments for young children. It also provides details about the interrelated physical, social, and temporal components of those environments, as well as adaptations to help teachers meet the needs of children with disabilities (est. completion time: 1 hour). | Website |
Early Childhood Special Education and ESSA: A Great Opportunity for All | In this blog post, Donna Spiker, Kathleen Hebbeler, Debbie Cate, and Sharon Walsh explain how states and districts can and should prioritize the inclusion of children with disabilities in efforts to improve early learning programs. | Website |
Early Steps | Early Steps, within the Division of Children's Medical Services, serves families with infants and toddlers, birth to 36 months of age, who have developmental delays or an established condition likely to result in a developmental delay. Each child receives an Individualized Family Support Plan (IFSP) that meets his or her needs. Families and caregivers also receive support to develop the skills and confidence they need to help their children learn and develop. | 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 |
Education by Design | Education by Design has been online since 1997 providing educational resources and fun activities for kids of all abilities. In the spirit of helping children of all abilities learn, our site provides an interesting mixtures of activities, ideas and information. | Website |
Education World, The Educator's Best Friend | The Education World website is full of resources for teachers as well as parents. This section is devoted to resources to help parents of special kids both gifted and challenged. | Website |
Embedded Learning and Universal Design | Definitions and examples of embedded learning and universal design. | Tipsheet |
Emergency Information Form for Children with S/N | The American College of Emergency Physicians offers an Emergency Information form which will assure prompt and appropriate care for children with special health care needs. The form is download-able from the website. | Website |
Emergency Plan Library | The forms, templates, worksheets, checklists, and tools in the Emergency Plan Library are in alphabetical order. You may use some or all of these materials to meet the needs of your individual program. | Document |
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