Inclusion In Child Care

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• Inclusion In Child Care
• Caring for Children With Special Needs
• Linda Lucas, R.N., M.S.
• Healthy Child Care Coordinator
• Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association

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If you treat a child as they areThey remain
as they are.If you treat a child for who they
could beThey will become all they can be!
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What You Will Learn

• Knowledge, skills and values that form the
  foundation for quality inclusion

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Inclusion

• What is it?
• Why is it important?

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Inclusion

• Inclusion is characterized by
• An open, positive attitude about the rights of
  all children
• Parents being able to choose the program their
  child attends

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Dont let what you cannot do interfere with what
you CAN DO!
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Activity Whats My Attitude?

• Impacts your response to young children and their
  families
• Attitudes are individual
• They can change over time
• Beliefs and attitudes are shaped by our
  experiences
• Strongly affect your learning and practice

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Your Role in Making Inclusion Work

• Everyone should be able to recognize your
  commitment to inclusion by what you say and do.
• Practicing inclusion is evident in
• Your activities
• Your centers equipment
• The way you speak
• The words you write

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Child First Language

• Describes what a person HAS, not what a person
  IS.
• Puts the person before the disability.

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Important Points

• Caring for young children is good preparation for
  working with a child with a disability
• Children learn by participating
• Children benefit and learn from each other
• Use Child First language
• Everyone benefits!

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Child Care Plus

• A curriculum on inclusion
• Provides practical strategies for early childhood
  programs
• Your HCCO child care health consultant can
  provide training for you and staff using this
  curriculum and help with practical strategies

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• Early Intervention
• Consultative Model
• Wendy Grove, Ph.D.
• Training Family Support Supervisor
• The Ohio Department of Health
• Bureau of Early Intervention Services

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What is Early Intervention?

• Help Me Grow
• Birth to age 3 program in Ohio
• Referrals can be made by anyone
• Children are eligible for services if they are
• At risk for developmental delay (4 risk factors)
  OR
• Demonstrate a significant delay in development
  OR
• Have a diagnosed physical or mental condition
  which has a high probability of resulting in a
  developmental delay

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IFSPs and IEPs

• IFSP Individualized Family Services Plan
• Birth to age 3
• Family plan to get child to their goals
• Lists all services child should have (therapies)
• IEP Individual Education Plan
• Age 3
• Family plan for education to reach goals
• Lists all services child should have

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E.R.A.P.

• Everyday Routines, Activities and Places
• Ideally we want to come into the childs place of
  daily care to teach caregivers how to engage in
  therapies in everyday interactions
• 99 of learning time occurs away from the
  therapist

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Consultative Model

• Consultative Model 1
• Case manager who consults with other
  professionals in the total care/therapies/plans
  for the child and instructs caregivers in the
  childs ERAP
• Consultative Model ? 1
• Therapist for every identified developmental
  delay, each seeing child in own clinic on own
  schedule

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Screening Training

• Ages Stages Questionnaire
• Will raise red flags to suggest further
  evaluation
• Free training!
• Contact your HCCO Child Care Nurse Consultant

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• SpecialQuest PITC Module V
• Donna Ruhland, M.Ed
• Director of Professional Development
• The Ohio Child Care Resource Referral
  Association

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PITC Module V

• Program for Infant Toddler Care
• Module V promotes inclusive practice through the
  PITC philosophy
• Training from Module V will be delivered by the
  Infant/Toddler Specialists

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SpecialQuest

• SpecialQuest Outcomes
• Create and implement a cross-agency professional
  development plan
• Embed the approach, materials and resources
• Support families as partners and leaders
• Evaluate and sustain inclusive
• practices

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SpecialQuest

• Building Blocks Approach
• Explicit
  Intervention
• Embedded Opportunities
• General adaptations and modifications
• Provision of quality child care

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Professional Development Components

• Inclusive practice
• Importance of the family and relationships
• Teaming and collaborative services
• Support of staff through professional development

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Individualizing and Plans

• IFSP IEP
• Child Care Professionals Role/
  Contribution/Participation
• Individual Health Care Plan ODJFS Form 01236

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Your Community Contacts

• Develop your own resource page
• These are agencies that address child and family
  needs
• Will be valuable to meet the needs of the whole
  family
• Handy reference on who to call for assistance

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Resources

• 1. Help Me Grow (children under age 3)
• 1-800-755-GROW
• 2. Your HCCO Child Care Health Consultant
• 1-877-547-6978 or www.occrra.org/hcco.htm
• 3. Mental Retardation/Developmental Disabilities
  (MR/DD)
• 1-877-464-6733 or www.odmrdd.state.oh.us
• 4. Infant/Toddler Specialists (I/T)
• www.occrra.org/firststeps.htm
• 5. Child Care Resource and Referral Agency
  (CCRR)
• www.occrra.org

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Resources

• 6. A Thinking Guide To Inclusive Child Care
• 7. Special Needs Resource Directory
• 8. Relationships to Support Children with Special
  Needs (ODE Manual)
• Put into search Early Learning and School
  Readiness, then click documents link to
  download document.
• Or call ODE _at_ 614-466-0224 and ask for
  publications to receive by mail.

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• Thank You!

This conference call and support materials are
brought to you by the Ohio Department of Health
and supported, in part, by HRSA State Early
Childhood Comprehensive System grant H25MCO1324.