DAP and ECSE

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DAP and ECSE

• EDCI 336
• September 12, 2006

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ECSE

• ECE
• SPED
• Compensatory Education

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Compensatory Ed

• Head Start
• 1965
• Economic Opportunity Act
• 1972 10 SPED requirement

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Legislation

• P.L. 94-142 (EHA 1975)
• Ages 6-21 IF state did not provide public
  educational programs for all children ages 3-5

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Legislation

• P.L. 99-457
• 1986 Part B (Preschool Grant Program)
• Mandated programs for children ages 3-5

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Legislation

• P.L. 99-457
• Part H ( Handicapped Infants and Toddlers
  Program)
• Voluntary program for birth to two

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Legislation

• Part H
• System of coordinated, comprehensive,
  multidisciplinary, interagency collaboration
• IFSP

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Terms to know

• Integration
• Mainstreaming
• LRE
• Full inclusion

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Integration

• Children with and without disabilities in the
  same program

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Mainstreaming

• Placement of children with disabilities in
  programs where majority of children do not have
  disabilities.

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LRE

• Least Restrictive Environment
• Setting that is appropriate for the child and
  provides the most contact with nondisabled
  children.

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Full Inclusion

• Children with disabilities in regular classrooms
  with individualized , appropriate services in
  that setting.

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Problems

• Nondisabled children from birth to 5 do not
  receive services so there are no inclusion
  programs in some places.

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Problems

• Possible exclusion from remedial assistance
• Emphasis on location rather than appropriateness
• Children who are deaf

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DECs Position

• Supports full inclusion
• Natural settings
• Full access to all services that promote full
  participation in the community P. 51

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DECs Position

• Values diversity of families
• Supports family guided process for determining
  services
• P. 51

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DECs Position

• Development, evaluation, dissemination of full
  inclusion supports, services and systems
• P. 51

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DECs Position

• Development of preservice and inservice training
  programs that prepare families, administrators,
  and service providers to develop and work within
  inclusive settings. P. 51

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DECs Position

• Collaboration among all key stakeholders to
  implement flexible fiscal and administrative
  procedures in support of inclusion

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DECs Position

• Research that contributes to our knowledge of
  state-of-the art services

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DECs Position

• The restructuring and unification of social,
  education, health, and intervention supports and
  services to make them more responsive to the
  needs of all children and families.

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Trends in ECSE

• Consultation and collaboration
• Assessment
• Authentic
• Curriculum and Instructional methods