Inclusion Everywhere 247

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Inclusion Everywhere 24/7

• Home/Family
• The rooms we live in
• The cars we go in
• Communities
• Day Care
• Church
• Shopping
• Recreation

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Inclusive Practices

• Natural Settings
• Natural Proportions
• Developmental Practices
• Honoring Preferences
• Strengths Based Planning (CPI)

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Inclusive Practices Support infants and
toddlers toward self determination

• Honoring Preferences
• Babies at birth can discriminate human faces
  and voices from other sights and sounds and show
  preferences for them.

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• Newborn babies distinguish and prefer faces
• One-month-old
• babies can
• imitate facial
• expressions.

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Babies recognize familiar faces, voices, even
smells

• and prefer
• them to
• unfamiliar
• ones

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Babies can differentiate betweenpeople

• and things and show their preference for people.

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• Babies can get bored
• habituation and turn off looking and listening.
• Scientist in the Crib Gopnik, Meltzoff, Kuhl
  

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Honoring Preferences

• Strength-Based Perspective
• Preferences are Strengths
• Child Preference Indicators
  Personal Preference Indicators
• Tools for Discovering Preferences
• Implications for Practice
• Practical Applications

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Emerging Model

• Individual and Family Support
• Emphasizes functional supports, inclusion
  quality of life
• Supports are where people live
• Formal and informal supports growing out of
  individual choices about their needs
• Individual and Family Directed

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Philosophy

• All individuals/families have strengths and
  assets and the capacity to change and grow
• Failure is not due to personal deficits but to
  failure of social systems to create opportunities
  for competencies to be acquired
• People with disabilities are positive
  contributors to their own families and communities

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Preferences Are

• Assets are the abilities, talents, strengths,
  interests, preferences, gifts, skills,
  competencies, dreams, that we all have.
• Looking for Strengths in All The Right
  Places
• Carl J. Dunst, 2000

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Preferences

• Things that engage us
• Things that motivate us
• Things that we enjoy doing

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Preferences Connect to Competence

• Preferences get us excited, motivate us, engage
  us
• Competencies knowledge, skills, capabilities
  strengthened and learned from engagement in what
  interests us

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Exercising Our Preferences

• Confirms our Humanity
• Part of Reaching Success
• Integral to Being Able to Self-Determine

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Denying Our Preferences

• Fosters Poor Self-Esteem
• Promotes Failure and Dependence
• Leads to Devaluing Our Ability to Make Choicesa
  Learned Helplessness

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Child Preference Indicators Personal
Preference Indicators

• Developed to
• Find out what works
• Way to engage around interests
• Framework for discovering preferences
• Basis for designing services

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Child Preference IndicatorsTeacher Registry
Survey

• Daily interactions will (now) reflect long-term
  transition planning.
• It (the process) allowed me to confirm and
  acknowledge a wider variety of concerns that the
  parent has for the child.
• It gave the parent the chance to be the expert.
• Unlike a formal parent-teacher conference,
  dreaded by both parent and teacher, meeting to
  fill out the Child Preference Indicators was
  informal and almost fun!

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Child Preference Indicators Personal Preference
Indicators

• Favorites
• Feelings
• Social World
• Choices

• Body Clock
• Health
• Role Indicators