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Strengthening Early Math and Science Skills through Spatial Learning
Teach spatial skills to young children-and improve their overall academic outcomes. This innovative teaching resource has the research-based insights and practical activities early childhood educators need to promote spatial development throughout the school day.
Encouraging Healthy Social and Emotional Development in Young Children
Social and emotional development in young children is a part of ensuring positive developmental outcomes later in life. This book serves as a guide to social and emotional development of young children. It offers information required to understand social and emotional development and how to support it.
A Transdisciplinary Play-Based Assessment of a Child with Severe Disabilities
Enables early childhood professionals simulate a TPBA2 session with a preschooler who has severe disabilities and health impairments. This work includes a 50-minute DVD of a recorded play session to help them practice their observational and note-taking skills, and a tablet of blank TPBA2 forms to fill out after viewing Kassandra's play session.
Shows teachers how to use scientifically based reading research (SBRR) in their everyday classroom instruction and improve their students' literacy outcomes. This book helps educators see the benefits of instruction based on research - and use it skillfully in classrooms to make their students better readers.
A New Vision for Literacy in the Inclusive Early Childhood Classroom
Discussing a social, dynamic model of literacy, this book highlights how inclusion of young children with significant disabilities promotes literacy development in children with and without disabilities. It also discusses the 10 domains of the inclusive early childhood literate community, which foster an ability to abstract and relate concepts.
Serving as a guide to aid clinicians who provide AAC interventions for adults with acquired communication disabilities, this book covers a range of communication disabilities and disorders caused by injury and illness. It offers AAC intervention strategies and procedures in medical settings.
An Outcome and Intervention Planning Instrument for Use with Families at Risk
For use with at-risk families of children from birth to 3 years of age, this tool, along with a CD-ROM, provides the critical data home visiting programs need. Generating a portrait of the behaviors and skills of parents and children, it helps establish baseline client profiles, monitor outcomes and others, to show that interventions are working.
A Developmental Curriculum for Infants and Toddlers
Beautiful Beginnings is a collection of developmental activities designed for individualized use with infants and toddlers from birth to 36 months. The program features activities to enhance children's development in 8 areas: communication, gross motor, fine motor, intellectual, discovery, social, self-help and pretend.
This CD-ROM contains the Assessment Logs and Developmental Progress Charts in English for both The Carolina Curriculum for Infants and Toddlers with Special Needs, Third Edition, and The Carolina Curriculum for Preschoolers with Special Needs, Second Edition.