Video 1.6: Routine in a program – taking turns A teacher facilitates a game of peek-a-boo between two boys with special needs. She embeds learning by encouraging communication with signs. She also supports turn-taking (running time: 1 min. 23 sec.). View TranscriptNarrator: This video clip shows a teacher in a preschool classroom working with two boys with…
Video 1.5: Routine in a program – enjoying mealtime Jalisa, a toddler with multiple disabilities has joined a newly inclusive child care setting. A practitioner helps Jalisa get into her special chair, and provides assistance for Jalisa to use a spoon. Jalisa’s team –Head Start practitioners, therapists, and the family – work together on…
Video 1.4: Routine at home – talking on the phone A mother encourages social learning by giving her daughter an opportunity to speak to a relative on the phone (running time: 51 sec.). View TranscriptNarrator: This video clip shows a mother at home encouraging her toddler to talk on the phone with a family…
Video 1.3: Routine at home – playing peek-a-boo A mother takes a normal everyday routine like changing a diaper and turns it into a learning opportunity by adding a game of peek-a-boo (running time: 1 min. 21 sec.). View TranscriptNarrator: This video clip shows a mother playing at home with her infant son splashing…
Video 1.2: The family’s viewpoint Christine, the mother of Luke, a 3 year old boy with developmental delays shares her view on a dilemma to include her son in a childcare program (running time: 2 min. 20 sec.). View TranscriptChristine: When we first thought about enrolling Luke in a childcare program, we were nervous…
Video 1.1: The teacher’s viewpoint Jackie, a teacher in a community-based childcare program shares a dilemma about including Luke, a 3 year old boy with developmental delays, in her classroom (running time: 1 min. 50 sec.). View TranscriptJackie: My program has just become more inclusive, and they’ve placed a child with significant disabilities into…
Foundations of Inclusion Birth to Five This short video provides an overview of inclusion legal and policy foundations and inclusion research, as well as a definition, the desired results and defining features of inclusion in early childhood. The video was produced by CONNECT: The Center to Mobilize Early Childhood Knowledge (running time: 12 min. 53 sec.). Handouts Policy Advisory…
Handout 1.14: Observation Form Resource Type: Handout In this handout, learners will view an observation form that a practitioner created to collect time sampling data to assist in the evaluation of embedded interventions for a child. The practitioner is evaluating the progress the child has made towards a goal by observing and recording the number…
Handout 1.12: Child Activity Matrix Resource Type: Handout This handout can be used to plan how embedded interventions will be implemented at home or in a program. Family and practitioners can document details such as times, activities, adults involved, and descriptions of the embedded interventions and post the form as a daily reminder. Resource File…
Handout 1.13 – Home Child Activity Matrix with Assessment Notes Resource Type: Handout In this handout, learners will view a completed child activity matrix for a child at home with additional notes the family made for assessment purposes. The family used this form to initially plan how the embedded interventions were to be implemented. Later…