Identify Strategies for Working with Students with Special Needs
Discover powerful strategies for effectively working with students with special needs in the early childhood education and child care centers. Learn how to meet the specific needs of five-to-twelve-year-olds in your program and create an inclusive environment where every child can thrive.Trainings incorporating this outcome
Age group
Proficiency Level
120 hours courses
12 CEUsRelated Outcomes
- Identify adaptations to materials and equipment for children with diagnosed special needs or delay.
- Identify the types of barriers children's with disabilities/special needs face and ways to adapt curriculum to fit those needs.
- Identify adaptations to materials and equipment for children with diagnosed special needs or delay
- Demonstrate understanding of how to assess and meet the needs of children with special needs.
- Identify strategies for the child care provider that will promote successful child development.
- Identify the need to maintain individual feeding schedules for infants.
- Identify strategies to ensure appropriate infant and toddler supervision.
- Identify the importance of documenting the home visitor's work with the family.
- List recommended feeding schedules and identify strategies for introducing new food for children birth through age three.
- Identify strategies to make connections and interact substantively with those who are different from oneself
- Identify strategies for effective communication with families
- Identify strategies to ensure appropriate supervision.
- Identify strategies to assist children with food allergies/feeding concerns.
- Identify different types of barriers for mixed ages with disabilities and ways to adapt curriculum to fit their needs.
- Identify and contemplate bias and explore anti-bias approaches that support working with children and families.
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