Division for Early Childhood 2024 Conference

This session gives participants a chance to meet with federal partners from the Office of Special Education Programs to highlight practices in their communities that support high-quality inclusive services for children with disabilities and their families and discuss resources and technical assistance that would support them in providing high-quality inclusive services.

The Department is especially interested in hearing from military families and practitioners supporting infants, toddlers, and young children and their families!

Building caregiver confidence and capacity is an essential goal of early intervention. Caregiver coaches make intentional decisions about the level of support provided to caregivers during early intervention visits. Learn how to decide when to use the highest level of scaffolding, intentional modeling, and how to do it effectively.

Developmental surveillance and screen are critical components of a monitoring system. In this interactive session we will describe the use of CDC Milestone for surveillance and the ASQ-3 and other screening tools available to identify infants and your children in need of further evaluation.

This study explores a systematic Social-Emotional(SE) linking approach for EC inclusive settings in Seoul, South Korea, over 6 years. Linking components include screening, SE assessment, IEP development, multi-tiered curriculum, and evaluation. The presentation will emphasize research tools, results for children with and without disabilities, and practictial application.