Empowering Your Child to Fly: A Family's Guide to Early Childhood Inclusion - Paperback

by Jani Kozlowski (Author)

Empowering Your Child to Fly: A Family's Guide to Early Childhood Inclusion offers advice for navigating the early intervention and special education systems from an educator who has experienced these systems as a child, as a parent, and as a professional.

• Understand screening, evaluation, and assessment.
• Discover helpful resources.
• Learn how to work with your team of specialists and educators.
• Discover strategies to identify your child's strengths and consider a future vision for your child.
• Explore your role as an advocate for your child.
• Explore ideas for creating learning spaces at home and embedding learning into everyday routines.
• Discover how to do all of this while staying healthy and strong, with a sense of balance in your life.

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Every child belongs. Every child is unique. Every child has strengths. Every child has the potential to fly.
Whether your child has received a diagnosis or is exhibiting behaviors that worry you, Empowering Your Child to Fly: A Family's Guide to Early Childhood Inclusion offers advice for navigating the early intervention and special education systems from an educator who has experienced these systems as a child, as a parent, and as a professional.

• Understand screening, evaluation, and assessment.
• Discover helpful resources.
• Learn how to work with your team of specialists and educators.
• Discover strategies to identify your child's strengths and consider a future vision for your child.
• Explore your role as an advocate for your child.
• Explore ideas for creating learning spaces at home and embedding learning into everyday routines.
• Discover how to do all of this while staying healthy and strong, with a sense of balance in your life.

Author Biography

Jani Kozlowski, MA, is a technical assistance specialist with the Early Childhood Technical Assistance (ECTA) Center. Previously, she served as the inclusion coordinator for the National Center on Early Childhood Development, Teaching and Learning at Zero to Three. She has also provided technical assistance for Head Start programs at the regional level. She is the author of the book Every Child Can Fly: An Early Childhood Educator's Guide to Inclusion.