What Are Typical Challenges to Including Children with Disabilities in Early Childhood Settings?
Researchers have reported that early childhood professionals and parents describe similar challenges to inclusion whether they are involved with child care, school districts, or Head Start: • Collaboration. Issues arise between school districts and early intervention programs that receive funding and other resources to educate children with disabilities, and child care or Head Start programs where children with disabilities are served. These challenges have to do with agreements for child care programs to cooperatively provide services to children for whom the school district or early intervention program has responsibility under IDEA so that the child might be served in the natural environment of the child care setting. Such collaborative arrangements involve shared responsibility, communication, shared assessments and planning, and shared resources. • Training and experience of child care personnel. Many child care personnel worry that they do not have the knowledge,skills, and resou
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