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From mealtimes to vaccines and everything in between, this information will help you establish routines for the day to day needs of your child.
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Connect to a network of parents and professionals and develop your own support network of peers and advisors.
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Establishing Services
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Meet Our Experts
Our panel of experts combine medical and therapeutic perspectives with years of experience working passionately alongside famiiles and children with special needs.
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Tools & Resources
A library of resources, reference links and easy to print guidelines for you to post on the fridge and share with others!
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Love, Laugh, & Live
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☐ Safe
☐ Displays student work
☐ Respects cultural diversity with materials/resources
☐ Materials age-appropriate and child-centered
☐ Supports high expectations
☐ Daily plan focused on multiple skill levels and school readiness concepts
☐ Asks/answers questions
☐ Participates in activities and centers
☐ Performs learning objectives to show understanding
☐ Demonstrates knowledge in multiple ways: interpersonal, intrapersonal, verbal-linguistic, logistical-mathematical, visual-spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, musical-rhythmic
☐ Receives feedback on performance
☐ Demonstrates understanding
☐ Outcomes-based lesson
☐ Language-based lesson
☐ Total group
☐ Flexible small skill group
☐ Para-professional clear about outcomes/strategies to use
☐ Cooperative play activities
☐ Teacher-led learning
☐ Student-directed learning (centers)
☐ Modeling
☐ Checking understanding
☐ Guided/Independent practice
☐ Parallel play
☐ Student initiated play
☐ Interactive play
☐ Language responses
☐ Student/adult only
☐ Inventive play
☐ Adjust for multiple learning styles
☐ Incorporate culturally responsive readings/perspectives
☐ Address diverse language needs
☐ Identify similarities & differences
☐ Provides appropriate language models
☐ Reinforce efforts & provide recognition
☐ Use practice opportunities to solidify learning
☐ Represent knowledge in multiple ways
☐ Organize learning in centers
☐ Set objectives & provide immediate/continuous feedback
☐ Organized around school ready skills
☐ Use cues, questions & multiple presentations
☐ Increase student engagement
☐ Individual/group work
☐ Project/center activities
☐ Language responses
☐ Inquisitive questioning
☐ Engages with peers
☐ Engages with adults Resources:
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☐ Supplemental materials
☐ Manipulatives/toys
☐ Technology
☐ Materials reflect diversity
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