Adapting early childhood curricula for children with special needs / Ruth E. Cook, M. Diane Klein, and Deborah Chen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Educating young children with special needs : The challenge In partnership with families -- Developing individualized intervention plans and programs and monitoring progress -- Designing instructional programs -- Considerations for teaching children with specific disabilities -- Promoting emotional and social development -- Helping young children develop motor and self-help skills -- Nurturing communication skills -- Encouraging the development of cognitive skills and literacy -- Teaming : Collaboration, problem solving, and consultation -- Chart of typical development -- Find your child's speech and hearing age -- Reflexes, reactions, and implications -- Referral signals checklist -- Competencies for trainees in early childhood special education -- Building collaborative relationships and conflict resolution : Effective communication strategies -- Strategies for helping children with specific disabilities participate in inclusive settings -- Common sequence of training steps used in milieu approaches -- Inclusion support itinerant procedures -- Web sites related to young children with special needs and their families -- Periodicals relevant to early childhood special education.

This book is written with you, the student of either early childhood or special education, in mind. Whether you are studying to become a teacher of young children with special needs or are an early interventionist with a related background who wishes to develop greater versatility in your chosen field, we have designed this to be an easy-to-read, interesting, and comprehensive resource for you. It provides extensive use of examples, dialogues, practical illustrations, vignettes, and a focus on the best practices in the field. When this text was originally published, intervention with young children with special needs was in its formative years. Since that time the field has expanded, and this book has successfully grown with it. Young children with special needs are now enrolled in a variety of settings and are served by professionals and paraprofessionals with diverse backgrounds. Our objective now, as it was in the first seven editions, is to present a text that will play a major role in the development of all who serve young children. The focus is on the skills necessary to assist infants, young children, and their families to meet their special challenges and develop to their fullest potential.