This 6-part guided book study, based on The Early Intervention Workbook, provides early intervention teams the opportunity to work together to learn and discuss new ideas in service delivery and ways to improve existing practices. Read More
Children’s ability to regulate their emotions and skillfully manage social interactions is critical to their healthy development and future success. Use this infographic as a guide to help encourage and support your preschooler’s social-emotional development. Read More
For professionals supporting children birth–5 with disabilities, learn how to identify skills in 5 developmental domains, involve the family in the process, and develop educational objectives and an intervention plan using the Carolina Curriculum. Read More
This chapter examines teachers’ curious, persistent, flexible, reflective, and collaborative thinking and suggests concrete strategies for incorporating, extending, and modeling these higher order thinking skills in classrooms and other early learning environments. Read More
This brief excerpt explains why it's useful for professionals to gather information on the families they serve, inculding details about family composition, culture/language, and customs. Read More
This checklist is designed to identify different aspects of development in infants and toddlers. Many behaviors that develop before children talk may indicate whether or not a child will have difficulty learning to talk. This checklist should be completed by a caregiver when the child is between 6 and 24 months of age to determine whether a referral for an evaluation is needed. Read More
Learn how your program can use the SEAM to reliably assess social-emotional development in infants, toddlers, and preschoolers in this webinar presented by Jane Squires and Misti Waddell. Read More