Screening, Assessment, and Diagnosis

Developmental and Social-Emotional Screening of Young Children in Minnesota offers a brief introduction to the different screening processes and tools with additional information available through active links within this webpage page. Please click on the link below to view the entire webpage. http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/fh/mch/devscrn

Reflective Practice

This article investigates the importance of reflective teaching styles and how they are beneficial to both pre-service and in-service teachers. http://www.ericdigests.org/2001-3/reflective.htm

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Minnesota Resources for IT Professionals

• Parent Aware for Providers - Parent Aware offers benefits to childcare providers and teachers. Check out this web site for providers to find out how you can benefit. http://www.parentawareratings.org/providers-educators/benefits.html
• Defining quality Health and Safety: The early care environment - Providers need to be aware of the type of care that they are providing to children. This module will give more information about the differences between regulations, guidelines, and standards. http://inclusivechildcare.org/SelfStudy/infomod/Defining_Quality_Health_and_Safety.html
• The First Signs: Red Flags and Referral - This module will raise awareness for providers related to milestones and red flags in early childhood development. http://inclusivechildcare.org/SelfStudy/infomod/first_signs.htm
• How Early Intervention Works (MN) - This module is based on Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE) in Minnesota. Covering topics related to the 13 disability categories, screening, process and resources available to children and parents. http://inclusivechildcare.org/SelfStudy/infomod/PE_early_intervention.html
• Americans with Disabilities Act - This module details the ADA and then relates it to children and child care teachers and providers. http://inclusivechildcare.org/SelfStudy/infomod/PE_ADA_modified.html
• When Biting Happens - Explores reasoning for when and why children bite and offers ways to decrease these behaviors. http://inclusivechildcare.org/SelfStudy/infomod/biting.htm
• Childhood Overweight and Obesity - Explores the meanings of and differences between overweight and obesity. Offers many reasons for these rising issues as well as associated long-term effects. http://inclusivechildcare.org/SelfStudy/infomod/ChildhoodOverweightObesity.htm
• Data Privacy and Confidentiality - provides information related to the Data Privacy and Confidentiality Act in Minnesota and the Federal Privacy Act of 1974. http://inclusivechildcare.org/SelfStudy/infomod/data_privacy.html
• IDEA - Individuals with Disabilities Education Act module looks at educational obligations, services, and natural and least restrictive environments for children. http://inclusivechildcare.org/SelfStudy/infomod/PE_IDEA.LRE.html
• The Language of Disability module discusses how powerful the words that we use in everyday life are and how derogatory they can be even when we do not use then with negative intentions.   http://inclusivechildcare.org/SelfStudy/infomod/thelanguageofdisability.htm
• More Alike Than Different: Our Perceptions about Disabilities module explores the invisible barriers and stereotypes that people may have in relation to people with disabilities.  http://inclusivechildcare.org/SelfStudy/infomod/PE_more_alike.html
• NHA - The Nurtured Heart Approach explores challenging behaviors exhibited by children and ways to deal with them. This is accomplished through the four parts of the NHA.  http://inclusivechildcare.org/SelfStudy/infomod/PE_Nurtured_Heart.html
• Oral and Feeding Skills and Development module provides developmental information and signs that should cause concern. http://inclusivechildcare.org/SelfStudy/infomod/oral_motor.htm
• Strategies for Successful Inclusion shares seven strategies to create an inclusive environment for all children.  http://inclusivechildcare.org/SelfStudy/infomod/PE_inclusion.html
• Supporting Sensory Preferences in Children is a two part module that discusses the developmental necessity of sensory processing as well as the differences in children and adults. This is done by providing information about the basic senses, basic needs, sensory processing disorder, sensory challenges, causes for screening, potential interventions, and ideas for activities.
  • Part 1 - Overview http://inclusivechildcare.org/SelfStudy/infomod/SupportingSensoryPreferences1.htm
  • Part 2 - Overview http://inclusivechildcare.org/SelfStudy/infomod/SupportingSensoryPreferences2.htm
• Why Don't They Like Me? A Look at Bullying - This module discusses bullying behaviors, ways to identify these behaviors, stereotypes and myths related to bullying, and ways to handle these situations. http://inclusivechildcare.org/SelfStudy/infomod/bullying.html
• Are relationships between parents and providers really important? Research has shown that children are affected by the quality of relationships between care providers and parents. There are also differences in parenting when staff act in certain ways. Read the following article "Relationships between Staff and Families in Early Head Start: Do They Matter?" for more details. http://www.cfs.purdue.edu/ITSI/briefs/kwonheadstart.pdf

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Published Documents

Early Learning Guidelines

• Early Childhood Indicators of Progress (2007) was put together by the Minnesota Department of Human Service and the Minnesota Department of Health as a resource for Minnesota's early learning guidelines for children from birth through age three. This document includes information about infant and toddler developmental stages, individual differences in children, indicators of progress, and more. For more information please click the link below for the full text document. http://edocs.dhs.state.mn.us/lfserver/Legacy/DHS-4438-ENG
• Zero to Three has a section called National Infant and Toddler Child Care Initiative who have compiled a "Responsive care giving resource list" that includes several helpful links for providers to other organizations as well as a list of publications that might be of interest. Please click the link below for the full text document and links.  http://www.zerotothree.org/site/DocServer/Final_Resources_for_Responsive_Caregiving.pdf?docID=1785
• A Guide for Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Programs was created through AED Center for Early Care & Education as a guide for staff in Migrant and Seasonal Head Start (MSHS) programs. This guide covers topics such as environmental roles in language, development of first language, and parental preferences in language used with infants and toddlers. To see more please click the link below for the full text document.  http://www.cfs.purdue.edu/ITSI/briefs/BITE_web1106.pdf

Core Competencies Companion is currently being developed by CEED and will be made available soon.

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