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FEATURES
Birth to five early literacy resources for parents and practitioners
The 5-part Parent Helper Handbook Series, is a comprehensive guide to development in young children birth through age five. The overview is available in 16 different languages! The series includes handbooks on communication, cognition, socialization and motor development.
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.
7-21-10 Supporting Young Bilingual Learners: Multilingual Living Blog and The Spanglish Baby
7-14-10 School Readiness Practices in States
7-7-10 CLASP's Early Childhood Education July Update
6-10-10 Importance of Fathers in the Healthy Development of Children
6-3-10 Autism Spectrum Disorders: Diagnosis, Prevalence, and Services for
Children and Families
5-27-10 Immediate Economic Impact of Investments in Early Childhood Education
5-17-10 Head Start Center on Inclusion
5-11-10 Planning Grants Available for Promise Neighborhoods
4-28-10 What Is the Age Range of Early Childhood? 0-5? 3-8? 0-8?
4-21-10 Two new Pre-K Policy Briefs from Education Law Center: Including Children with Disabilities in State Pre-K Programs and Access to Pre-K Education Under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act
4-14-10 Keys to High Quality Childcare for Infants and Toddlers
4-8-10 New CSEFEL Resources! Factsheet and Toolkit
3-26-10 Preparing Teachers for the Pre-K Classroom
3-18-10 NECTAC Database of Inclusion Resources
3-11-10 States' Efforts to Serve Young Latino Children and Their Families
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.
