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FEATURES
Mark your Calendars! Addressing Challenging Behaviors- 7th Annual National Training Institute on Effective Practices: Supporting Young Children's Social Emotional Development, March 17-20, 2010.
PBS Kids, Raising Readers provides free reading games and activities for children ages 2 through 5, parents, caregivers and tearchers to use at home or in the classroom. Use the power of the Web to help your child build valuable reading skills.
Young Children's Social and Emotional Development - New CSEFEL updates!
A Family Guide to Next Steps: When our Child in Early Intervention Turns 3 – This guide is an informational resource for families, who have children receiving early intervention services...read more. This guide has now been translated into 15 languages. Click here to find this translated resource.
Check out the new MITP Physician's Guide
The following two websites were developed through grant funding from MSDE to support preschool children in community settings.
- EC-TAC is a Technical Assistance Center that provides information on assistive technology to support preschool children with disabilities to be included in their schools and communities.
- VI Curriculum offers strategies for including visually impaired children in community settings, developed by the Maryland School for the Blind.
Check out the podcasts, webinars, webcasts, and online videos on a variety of topics of interest to both families and service providers.
NEWS
Learn more about Maryland’s Early Childhood Intervention and Education System of Services for children Birth through age five. Maryland has received grant funding that will allow families who have children in early intervention that are also determined eligible for preschool special education to chose which service best meets their needs. For public review please check out the revised version of the Policies and Procedures document.
2-4-10 Policy Brief on Integrating Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation with the Pyramid Model
1-28-10 CLASP's Charting Progress for Babies resources updated!
1-13-10 Resource Collection on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs)
1-6-10 Promoting Social Behavior of Young Children in Group Settings: A Summary of Research and
Social-Emotional Development in Early Childhood: What Every Policymaker Should Know
12-29-09 Extending Home Visiting to Kinship Caregivers and Family, Friend, and Neighbor Caregivers
12-29-09 Home Visitation and Young Children: An Approach Worth Investing In?
12-9-09 Emotional and Behavioral Development Paves the Way to Achievement
11-4-09 Resource for Evaluating Advocacy Efforts
Be sure to check out News Sources for up-to-date news, articles and other important information related to early childhood education.
Developed through a partnership of the Maryland State Department of Education Division of Special Education and Early Intervention Services and the Johns Hopkins University Center for Technology in Education with funding from the U.S. Department of Education, IDEA Part B/C.
