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Reports & Useful Documents
Dissemination of information in a useable format is one way to help create a statewide system of support, training, and resources that give all families and providers barrier-free access to inclusive child care. Continue to check back to this site for reports and publications as they become available.
Download the Summer 2005 issue for information and contacts for the Early Intervention and Early Childhood Education System in California.
Download this report published by the Child Care Law Center in September of 2004.
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Out-Of-School-Time Programs: Including School-Age Children And Youths With Disabilities Or Other Special Needs
The book addresses issues that impact delivery of programs and services to children and youth with disabilities or other special needs during any time that they are not in general education classes. This includes child care and the times that school-age children and youth often participate in sports, recreation, enrichment activities clubs, and other community programs.
Currently in production.
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Making Inclusion Work: Strategies that Promote Belonging for Children with Special Needs in Child Care Settings is designed to help child care providers to learn how to use successful strategies that promote belonging and inclusion for all children.
The handbook was written by Linda Brault and was produced under contract with the California Department of Education, Child Development Division.
The handbook is full of strategies, tools, and examples that address::
How to be successful at including children with disabilities or other special needs in a child care program;
How major modifications to programs probably will not be needed to accomplish inclusion;
How assistance and support for the changes that do need to be made might be available; and
How building an inclusive child care program will be rewarding for all the children, families, and staff in a child care program.
To be notified when the guide is published, please contact the California Map to Inclusive Child Care Project at 751 Rancheros Dr., Suite 2, San Marcos, CA 92069.
