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In this Issue... 
The First IEP: Parent Perspectives [DVD] by Deborah Chen & Annie Cox Critical Issues in Early Childhood Professional Development edited by Martha Zaslow & Ivelisse Martinez-Beck Customer Service
E-mail Your Questions Do you have a question or comment for us? |
Greetings! With new tasks flying at us every day, it's hard enough to keep up, let alone stop to come up with a larger solution. Isn't it nice when somebody comes along who's already devised a plan that addresses the same things we need to tackle? See if the program highlighted in today's feature could work for you. Suzette Guiffré 
Developing a community-wide transition system If you provide any kind of services to young children, you know how critical the transition points are when a child moves from one professional, service, or program to another. Take a look at this step-by-step model for a community-wide transition plan that's already been mapped out, field tested, and shown to work for everyone.
Target family literacy with one-of-a-kind tool A study of 2,500 low-income mothers and their children led by University of Nebraska researcher and Beautiful Beginnings author Helen Raikes showed that, when mothers read daily to children during their earliest years, the children have better language comprehension and cognitive development. Now, family literacy teachers and parent educators have a tool to assess and improve the quality of reading interaction between an adult and child. Andrea DeBruin-Parecki, author of the new Let's Read Together! offers hands-on training on how to use the Adult/Child Interactive Reading Inventory to improve the way parents and caregivers read with children and actually improve literacy outcomes.
Unprecedented federal funding for home visiting? When the 110th Congress convenes in January, chances are good that the Senate and House will again take up the Education Begins at Home Act. If passed as introduced last session, the bi-partisan bill would establish the first dedicated federal funding stream for high quality home visiting programs for parents with young children. As introduced, EBAH would authorize $500 million over 3 years through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to help states establish or expand quality home visitation programs at the state and local level; $100 million would support efforts targeting English language learners and military families. The bill will have to be reintroduced in the new session. For an update on the status of EBAH, contact the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions and the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Selected upcoming conferences American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Zero to Three National Training Institute |
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