SpecialQuest

Video Information

Playtime: 18 min

Volume Title: Preschool Inclusion Series

Session: Preschool Inclusion: Laying the Groundwork for Success

Video Description

This video is the foundation for the SpecialQuest Multimedia Training Library’s Preschool Inclusion Series. Preschool Inclusion: Working Together to Make It Happen provides examples of staff and families working together to support high-quality inclusion of preschoolers with disabilities in early care and education settings. This video illustrates how services can be responsive to the priorities and concerns of both families and service providers. In the video, classroom staff, administrators, service providers, and families share their perspectives on what makes inclusion work. The video also shows many images of children with disabilities in inclusive environments. Preschool Inclusion: Working Together to Make It Happen also can be a useful tool for discussing the three defining features of inclusion: access, participation, and support (DEC/NAEYC Joint Position Statement on Inclusion, 2009).

Learning Outcomes

Participants will consider the benefits of inclusion for preschool children, families, and service providers.

Participants will identify and discuss strategies to create and support collaborative services in inclusive preschool environments.

Participants will review the DEC/NAEYC joint definition of inclusion and discuss three defining features of inclusion: access, participation, and supports.

Participants will be aware of the legal requirements related to the inclusion of preschoolers with disabilities throughout early childhood service delivery systems.