ERIC ED411654: Inclusion Partners: A Support Training pdf

ERIC ED411654: Inclusion Partners: A Support Training

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This final report discusses the outcomes of a North Carolina project designed to prepare professionals and paraprofessionals to deliver quality services in inclusive settings to young children with disabilities and their families. The primary component of the project was to develop and implement an on-site, inservice collaborative consultation model in which 40 early childhood professionals were trained as consultants to work with child care staff in their communities to improve the quality of child care environments. Consultants were primarily early intervention outreach specialists and resource and referral agency staff. The second component of the project was to support early childhood community college faculty in their curriculum planning and teaching efforts to prepare students to provide services to children with disabilities and their families. Evaluation data indicate that the on-site consultation model was successful in improving the quality of early childhood environments. By providing on-site follow up related to the participants identified needs, changes were made in program quality that were both measurable and lasting.

The community college component of the program was also successful. Contains 2 tables and 12 figures. (Author/CR

• Creator/s: ERIC
• Date: 6/30/1997
• Year: 1997
• Book Topics/Themes: ERIC Archive, Community Colleges, Consultation Programs, Curriculum Design, Day Care Centers, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Early Intervention, Higher Education, Inclusive Schools, Inservice Education, Mainstreaming, Models, Paraprofessional Personnel, Training, Young Children, Palsha, Sharon, Wesley, Patricia

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