Final Exam Flashcards
Attitudes over time
-Forget and Hide
-Screen and Segregate
-Identify and Help
-Include and Support
What is Inclusion, 3 concepts
Beliefs and Values: concept of “goodness of fit” (Thomas & Chess, 1977).
Experience: create a match between the program and the child/family.
Outcomes: broad based and holistic, developmental outcomes, sense of belonging.
BEST PRACTICES FOR INCLUSIVE EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMS
-Research based or value based
-Family centred
-Bias free
-Transdisciplinary Approach
-Developmentally or Chronologically Appropriate
-Full Participation
Special needs children, Statistics
-3.7 times
as likely to experience
neglect
-3.8 times as
likely to experience
physical and emotional
abuse
-4 times to be
sexually abused
Stages of Grief
-Shock and Denial
-Anger
-Depression
-Dialogue
-Acceptance
WHAT IS AN INDIVIDUAL
FAMILY SERVICE PLAN?
A written plan that describes services for
families with young children with special
needs; it is written collaboratively with
parents and describes the child’s current
strengths and needs
Supporting the family in this process:
-Provide family with choices
* Conduct assessment in child’s natural
environment
* Avoid professional words
* Present in family friendly manner
* Provide time for questions
* Provide information to parents on variety of
topics(ie. Speicial need, respite, legislation)
* Encourage extended family participation
Enabling and Empowering
Families
-Enabling families means creating opportunities for family members to
become more competent and self-sustaining with respect to their
abilities to mobilize their social networks to get needs met and attain
goals
-Empowering families means carrying out interventions in a manner in
which family members acquire a sense of control over their own
developmental course as a result of their own efforts to meet needs.
Setting the foundation for an inclusive program
1.A child is a child
2. Review of Developmental Principles and Practices
3. Incidental Teaching Opportunities
10 Characteristics of
Effective Educators
in Inclusive Settings
- Aware of the BIG PICTURE
- Be Enthusiastic
- Genuine Listening
- Consistency
- Supporting Individuality
- Ability to Build Trust
- Sense of Humour
- Provision of Positive Child
- Facilitate Children’s Efforts
- Ability to Integrate
Factors that enable
educators to be successful
with inclusion
Support from:
1. Resource teachers
2. Consultants
3. External therapists
4. Emotional support
5. Assistance from co-workers
6. PARENTS
Dual Placement
when
children with special needs
spend part of the day in a
specialized program and part
in an inclusive setting
Coordinated Teaching
staff
from the specialized program
and inclusive setting provide
coordinated programming for
the child
Convention of Rights
Canada ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2010, after consultations with the
provinces and territories, Aboriginal self-government and Canadians – particularly those from the disability
community
there are 50 articles
Leilani O’Malley
11 year old girl with special needs who was forced into sterilization without consent.
Planning the
environment for
LEARNING
1.Accommodating environment
2. Self-help/care routines and
transitions
3. Discovery Learning
4. Emergent Curriculum
4 PRINCIPLES of PLANNING
Early Learning
Environments
- Safety
- Visibility
- Movement
4.Teachers’ Availability:
* Offering Choice: empowering choice, decrease
“no” opportunities
* Structured Flexibility: well arranged setting,
rules consistent to provide a secure yet freeing
framework
The Inclusive
Environment
Scheduling
*individual accommodations -
* Orderly sequences -
* advance notices-
* Embedding learning- IPP goals/objectives
DEVELOPMENTAL
SEQUENCE
- moving step by step toward mastery of
each developmental skill
DEVELOPMENTAL
MILESTONES
- Certain behaviors or skills can be seen in a
predictable order in almost
every child. - Gross motor skills
- Language skills
- Self-help skills
DEVELOPMENTAL
MILESTONES
- Certain behaviors or skill
sequences can be seen in a
predictable order in almost
every child. These significant
points or events are referred to
as developmental milestones. - Consideration for cultural
context, we may find varying
developmental pathways - Gross motor skills
- Language skills
- Self-help skills
Terms Used to Define Exceptionalities
-Special/Challenging Needs
-Handicapped
-Impairment
-Atypical
-Developmental Disability