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The National Network For Child Care's Guide To Caring For Children With Special Needs
By: Renata Bursten, Dragonfly Staff
A supurb guide to including children with special needs into an integrated preschool setting.
Disabilities are often not recognized at birth but become noticeable as a child exhibits some type of developmental delay over time. Parents and child care providers are often the first to notice that there might be a developmental delay.
Child care providers may be asked to care for a child with a disability. The disability may have been already identified when the parents come to the program, or it may have been noticed after the child became a part of the group.
This guide provides statagies for providing the best and most enriching care possible.
,Well worth checking out!
Guide To Caring For Children With Special Needs
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Nonverbal Children Make Choices and Communicate Them!
Nonverbal children with or without CP can have a hard time learning how to make choices and communicate them. Play is a good way to begin learning this important lesson. Try using the Rocking Say It Play It to help. Hook up two switch-adapted toys to the two jacks, Say the name of each toy into the recorder, and tape pictures of the toys to the sides of the switch. When the child presses on the picture the word will be spoken and the toy will activate. This is real multisensory learning!