Inclusion Strategies for Young Children

A Resource Guide for Teachers, Child Care Providers, and Parents
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Inclusion Strategies for Young Children
February 2009 | 152 pages | Corwin
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"This book makes inclusion a much easier way to work with children than the resource room of the past. It places the responsibility of adaptation on the teachers and the school system versus the old method of pounding a square peg into a round hole. I truly appreciated the detailed description of the learning cycle and will use it in my own lesson plans beginning tomorrow!"
—Stacey B. Ferguson, Multiage Teacher
North Bay Elementary School, Bay Saint Louis, MS

Concrete methods for enhancing young children's growth and development!

This user-friendly book helps general and special education teachers work with 3- to7-year-olds in school programs, early childhood settings, and other inclusive settings designed to meet the needs of young children. Lorraine O. Moore provides more than 350 proven strategies to promote success for beginning learners, especially those who have special needs.

This second edition contains updated information on IDEA 2004, resource listings of organizations, a glossary, and reproducible handouts for students and parents. Comprehensive in its approach, this invaluable resource offers current brain research about learning and behavior challenges, individual chapters on assessment and specific disabilities, and developmentally appropriate practices to help children:

  • Increase large and small motor skills
  • Develop emotionally and socially
  • Acquire better communication, listening, and attention skills
  • Work toward self-management of behaviors
  • Develop preparatory reading, writing, and math skills

Inclusion Strategies for Young Children gives adults the essential tools to help young children attain their full potential in school and all areas of their lives.

Contents

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Author

Introduction

  • 1. Working With Young Children
  • Major Findings From Brain Research
  • "Whole Child" Perspective
  • Developmentally Appropriate Practice
  • Cycles of Learning
  • Phase I: Awareness
  • Phase II: Exploration
  • Phase III: Inquiry
  • Phase IV: Utilization or Application
  • Environmental Considerations
  • Testing and Labeling of Young Children
  • Working With Parents
  • Teaching From the Heart
  • 2. Inclusion: The Right to Equal Educational Experiences
  • Children With Special Needs
  • Types of Special Needs
  • Labeling of Young Children
  • Legislation That Supports Inclusion
  • Inclusion
  • Benefits of Inclusive Education
  • Barriers to Inclusive Education
  • Summary
  • 3. General Strategies for Working With Young Children
  • Expectations
  • Time
  • Environmental Conditions
  • Nutrition and Learning
  • Multi-Sensory Activities
  • Basic Categories of Modification
  • Brain Balancing
  • 4. Communication Strategies
  • Basic Communication Strategies
  • Attending Strategies
  • Listening Strategies
  • Attaching Meaning to Print and Words
  • Strategies for Children With a Hearing Impairment
  • Strategies for Children With a Visual Impairment
  • Strategies and Information for Children With Limited Speech and Expressive Language
  • 5. Large and Small Motor Development
  • Strategies for Large Motor Development
  • Strategies for Small Motor Development
  • 6. Emotional/Social Development
  • Strategies for Supporting Emotional Development
  • Strategies for Supporting Social Development
  • 7. Guiding and Modifying Children's Behavior
  • General Strategies for Guiding Children's Behavior
  • Strategies for Modifying Children's Behavior
  • Strategies for Children With Attention Problems
  • Strategies for Aggressive and Withdrawn Behaviors
  • Strategies for Problem Solving
  • 8. Preparatory Writing, Reading, and Math Skills
  • Preparatory Writing and Reading Skills
  • Preparatory Math Skills
  • 9. Assessing Young Children
  • Characteristics of Young Children That Affect Assessment
  • Developmental Patterns
  • Purposes for Assessing Young Children
  • Assessment Tools and Techniques
  • Observation
  • Interviews
  • Standardized Tests
  • Other Assessment Procedures
  • Assessment of Children With Special Needs
  • Summary
  • 10. Learning in the 21st Century
  • Brain Research
  • Nutrition and Learning
  • Other Needs of the Brain and Body
  • Environmental Factors and Learning
  • Expanded View of Intelligence
  • Responsibility

Appendix A: Forms and Activities

  • Form 1: Profile of Development
  • Form 2: Cycles of Learning
  • Form 3: Behavior as a Function of the Interaction of the Child in His Environment
  • Form 4: General Strategies for Working With Young Children
  • Form 5: Categories of Modifications
  • Form 6: Creating a Personal Dictionary of Familiar Objects
  • Form 7: Mazes
  • Form 8: Learning About Feelings Through Working With Animals
  • Form 9: Sharing and Talking About Feelings
  • Form 10: Learning About Feelings Through Dramatic Play
  • Form 11: Learning About Empathy
  • Form 12: Settling Conflicts Peacefully
  • Form 13: Steps for Problem Solving
  • Form 14: Steps in Changing Behaviors
  • Form 15: Charting Frequency of Behaviors
  • Form 16: Child Observation Form
  • Form 17: Examples of Observation Forms
  • Form 18: Interview About the Child

Appendix B: Bibliography

Appendix B: Bibliography

Appendix C: Resources

Appendix C: Resources

Appendix D: Glossary

Appendix D: Glossary

Index

Index

Description

"This book makes inclusion a much easier way to work with children than the resource room of the past. It places the responsibility of adaptation on the teachers and the school system versus the old method of pounding a square peg into a round hole. I truly appreciated the detailed description of the learning cycle and will use it in my own lesson plans beginning tomorrow!"
—Stacey B. Ferguson, Multiage Teacher
North Bay Elementary School, Bay Saint Louis, MS

Concrete methods for enhancing young children's growth and development!

This user-friendly book helps general and special education teachers work with 3- to7-year-olds in school programs, early childhood settings, and other inclusive settings designed to meet the needs of young children. Lorraine O. Moore provides more than 350 proven strategies to promote success for beginning learners, especially those who have special needs.

This second edition contains updated information on IDEA 2004, resource listings of organizations, a glossary, and reproducible handouts for students and parents. Comprehensive in its approach, this invaluable resource offers current brain research about learning and behavior challenges, individual chapters on assessment and specific disabilities, and developmentally appropriate practices to help children:

  • Increase large and small motor skills
  • Develop emotionally and socially
  • Acquire better communication, listening, and attention skills
  • Work toward self-management of behaviors
  • Develop preparatory reading, writing, and math skills

Inclusion Strategies for Young Children gives adults the essential tools to help young children attain their full potential in school and all areas of their lives.

Contents

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Author

Introduction

  • 1. Working With Young Children
  • Major Findings From Brain Research
  • "Whole Child" Perspective
  • Developmentally Appropriate Practice
  • Cycles of Learning
  • Phase I: Awareness
  • Phase II: Exploration
  • Phase III: Inquiry
  • Phase IV: Utilization or Application
  • Environmental Considerations
  • Testing and Labeling of Young Children
  • Working With Parents
  • Teaching From the Heart
  • 2. Inclusion: The Right to Equal Educational Experiences
  • Children With Special Needs
  • Types of Special Needs
  • Labeling of Young Children
  • Legislation That Supports Inclusion
  • Inclusion
  • Benefits of Inclusive Education
  • Barriers to Inclusive Education
  • Summary
  • 3. General Strategies for Working With Young Children
  • Expectations
  • Time
  • Environmental Conditions
  • Nutrition and Learning
  • Multi-Sensory Activities
  • Basic Categories of Modification
  • Brain Balancing
  • 4. Communication Strategies
  • Basic Communication Strategies
  • Attending Strategies
  • Listening Strategies
  • Attaching Meaning to Print and Words
  • Strategies for Children With a Hearing Impairment
  • Strategies for Children With a Visual Impairment
  • Strategies and Information for Children With Limited Speech and Expressive Language
  • 5. Large and Small Motor Development
  • Strategies for Large Motor Development
  • Strategies for Small Motor Development
  • 6. Emotional/Social Development
  • Strategies for Supporting Emotional Development
  • Strategies for Supporting Social Development
  • 7. Guiding and Modifying Children's Behavior
  • General Strategies for Guiding Children's Behavior
  • Strategies for Modifying Children's Behavior
  • Strategies for Children With Attention Problems
  • Strategies for Aggressive and Withdrawn Behaviors
  • Strategies for Problem Solving
  • 8. Preparatory Writing, Reading, and Math Skills
  • Preparatory Writing and Reading Skills
  • Preparatory Math Skills
  • 9. Assessing Young Children
  • Characteristics of Young Children That Affect Assessment
  • Developmental Patterns
  • Purposes for Assessing Young Children
  • Assessment Tools and Techniques
  • Observation
  • Interviews
  • Standardized Tests
  • Other Assessment Procedures
  • Assessment of Children With Special Needs
  • Summary
  • 10. Learning in the 21st Century
  • Brain Research
  • Nutrition and Learning
  • Other Needs of the Brain and Body
  • Environmental Factors and Learning
  • Expanded View of Intelligence
  • Responsibility

Appendix A: Forms and Activities

  • Form 1: Profile of Development
  • Form 2: Cycles of Learning
  • Form 3: Behavior as a Function of the Interaction of the Child in His Environment
  • Form 4: General Strategies for Working With Young Children
  • Form 5: Categories of Modifications
  • Form 6: Creating a Personal Dictionary of Familiar Objects
  • Form 7: Mazes
  • Form 8: Learning About Feelings Through Working With Animals
  • Form 9: Sharing and Talking About Feelings
  • Form 10: Learning About Feelings Through Dramatic Play
  • Form 11: Learning About Empathy
  • Form 12: Settling Conflicts Peacefully
  • Form 13: Steps for Problem Solving
  • Form 14: Steps in Changing Behaviors
  • Form 15: Charting Frequency of Behaviors
  • Form 16: Child Observation Form
  • Form 17: Examples of Observation Forms
  • Form 18: Interview About the Child

Appendix B: Bibliography

Appendix B: Bibliography

Appendix C: Resources

Appendix C: Resources

Appendix D: Glossary

Appendix D: Glossary

Index

Index

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Inclusion Strategies for Young Children

A Resource Guide for Teachers, Child Care Providers, and Parents


February 2009 | 152 pages | Corwin

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"This book makes inclusion a much easier way to work with children than the resource room of the past. It places the responsibility of adaptation on the teachers and the school system versus the old method of pounding a square peg into a round hole. I truly appreciated the detailed description of the learning cycle and will use it in my own lesson plans beginning tomorrow!"
—Stacey B. Ferguson, Multiage Teacher
North Bay Elementary School, Bay Saint Louis, MS

Concrete methods for enhancing young children's growth and development!

This user-friendly book helps general and special education teachers work with 3- to7-year-olds in school programs, early childhood settings, and other inclusive settings designed to meet the needs of young children. Lorraine O. Moore provides more than 350 proven strategies to promote success for beginning learners, especially those who have special needs.

This second edition contains updated information on IDEA 2004, resource listings of organizations, a glossary, and reproducible handouts for students and parents. Comprehensive in its approach, this invaluable resource offers current brain research about learning and behavior challenges, individual chapters on assessment and specific disabilities, and developmentally appropriate practices to help children:

  • Increase large and small motor skills
  • Develop emotionally and socially
  • Acquire better communication, listening, and attention skills
  • Work toward self-management of behaviors
  • Develop preparatory reading, writing, and math skills

Inclusion Strategies for Young Children gives adults the essential tools to help young children attain their full potential in school and all areas of their lives.


Table Of Contents:

  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Author
  • Introduction
  • 1. Working With Young Children
  • Major Findings From Brain Research
  • "Whole Child" Perspective
  • Developmentally Appropriate Practice
  • Cycles of Learning
  • Phase I: Awareness
  • Phase II: Exploration
  • Phase III: Inquiry
  • Phase IV: Utilization or Application
  • Environmental Considerations
  • Testing and Labeling of Young Children
  • Working With Parents
  • Teaching From the Heart
  • 2. Inclusion: The Right to Equal Educational Experiences
  • Children With Special Needs
  • Types of Special Needs
  • Labeling of Young Children
  • Legislation That Supports Inclusion
  • Inclusion
  • Benefits of Inclusive Education
  • Barriers to Inclusive Education
  • Summary
  • 3. General Strategies for Working With Young Children
  • Expectations
  • Time
  • Environmental Conditions
  • Nutrition and Learning
  • Multi-Sensory Activities
  • Basic Categories of Modification
  • Brain Balancing
  • 4. Communication Strategies
  • Basic Communication Strategies
  • Attending Strategies
  • Listening Strategies
  • Attaching Meaning to Print and Words
  • Strategies for Children With a Hearing Impairment
  • Strategies for Children With a Visual Impairment
  • Strategies and Information for Children With Limited Speech and Expressive Language
  • 5. Large and Small Motor Development
  • Strategies for Large Motor Development
  • Strategies for Small Motor Development
  • 6. Emotional/Social Development
  • Strategies for Supporting Emotional Development
  • Strategies for Supporting Social Development
  • 7. Guiding and Modifying Children's Behavior
  • General Strategies for Guiding Children's Behavior
  • Strategies for Modifying Children's Behavior
  • Strategies for Children With Attention Problems
  • Strategies for Aggressive and Withdrawn Behaviors
  • Strategies for Problem Solving
  • 8. Preparatory Writing, Reading, and Math Skills
  • Preparatory Writing and Reading Skills
  • Preparatory Math Skills
  • 9. Assessing Young Children
  • Characteristics of Young Children That Affect Assessment
  • Developmental Patterns
  • Purposes for Assessing Young Children
  • Assessment Tools and Techniques
  • Observation
  • Interviews
  • Standardized Tests
  • Other Assessment Procedures
  • Assessment of Children With Special Needs
  • Summary
  • 10. Learning in the 21st Century
  • Brain Research
  • Nutrition and Learning
  • Other Needs of the Brain and Body
  • Environmental Factors and Learning
  • Expanded View of Intelligence
  • Responsibility
  • Appendix A: Forms and Activities
  • Form 1: Profile of Development
  • Form 2: Cycles of Learning
  • Form 3: Behavior as a Function of the Interaction of the Child in His Environment
  • Form 4: General Strategies for Working With Young Children
  • Form 5: Categories of Modifications
  • Form 6: Creating a Personal Dictionary of Familiar Objects
  • Form 7: Mazes
  • Form 8: Learning About Feelings Through Working With Animals
  • Form 9: Sharing and Talking About Feelings
  • Form 10: Learning About Feelings Through Dramatic Play
  • Form 11: Learning About Empathy
  • Form 12: Settling Conflicts Peacefully
  • Form 13: Steps for Problem Solving
  • Form 14: Steps in Changing Behaviors
  • Form 15: Charting Frequency of Behaviors
  • Form 16: Child Observation Form
  • Form 17: Examples of Observation Forms
  • Form 18: Interview About the Child
  • Appendix B: Bibliography
  • Appendix C: Resources
  • Appendix D: Glossary
  • Index

Recent Product Reviews:

"Takes a topic that many preservice teachers find intimidating and makes working with children with special needs doable. The easy-to-read lists inform teachers what they need to do to begin working with children with different needs."
Deborah Diffily, Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education, Southern Methodist University
"Provides insightful and useful strategies for all educators, no matter what the composition of their classroom. This book offers a plethora of hands-on and practical activities presented in a straightforward, user-friendly manner."
Denise Metiva Hernandez, Gifted Educator, Pontchartrain Elementary School, Mandeville, LA
"Professionals working with children will find the plethora of forms particularly useful and adaptable to address the assessment and activity needs of the children they work with. The recommendations address the specific needs of certain types of children as well as general recommendations that would be helpful for all children."
Diana D. Coyl, Assistant Professor of Child Development, California State University, Chico
"This book makes inclusion a much easier way to work with children than the resource room of the past. It places the responsibility of adaptation on the teachers and the school system versus the old method of pounding a square peg into a round hole. I truly appreciated the detailed description of the learning cycle and will use it in my own lesson plans beginning tomorrow!"
Stacey B. Ferguson, Multiage Teacher, North Bay Elementary School, Bay Saint Louis, MS

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