The Early Intervention Workbook

This 6-part guided book study, based on The Early Intervention Workbook, provides early intervention teams the opportunity to work together to learn and discuss new ideas in service delivery and ways to improve existing practices. Read More

How parents of toddlers can support social-emotional development

Children’s ability to regulate their emotions and skillfully manage social interactions is critical to their healthy development and future success. Use this infographic as a guide to help encourage and support your preschooler’s social-emotional development. Read More

Books that toddlers like best

With their insatiable curiosity and notoriously short attention spans, toddlers are not always kind to books. Use this tip sheet to learn the types of books toddlers like best.

The Carolina Curriculum: an integrated system for assessment and intervention

For professionals supporting children birth–5 with disabilities, learn how to identify skills in 5 developmental domains, involve the family in the process, and develop educational objectives and an intervention plan using the Carolina Curriculum. Read More

Curious, persistent, flexible, reflective, and collaborative teachers

This chapter examines teachers’ curious, persistent, flexible, reflective, and collaborative thinking and suggests concrete strategies for incorporating, extending, and modeling these higher order thinking skills in classrooms and other early learning environments. Read More

Sample PreK Floor Plan for Keeping All Kids Engaged

Adapted from Engagement of Every Child in the Preschool Classroom, this colorful sample floor plan lays out for preschool educators one option in using their space efficiently and effectively to maximize student learning. Sidebar annotations provide the research-based reasoning behind this proposed classroom set-up. Read More

Activity: Play Time

Here's a helpful chart on which least-intrusive adaptations early childhood teams should make in certain situations so that young students can most benefit from play time. Read More

Tips for talking with toddlers

Opportunities to involve young kids in talk are all around you: a book, a favorite toy, a plane flying overhead, or even a routine chore can start great conversations that expand vocabulary and promote language skills. Check out this quick excerpt to learn key strategies for talking effectively with toddlers. Read More

8 Fun Things to Do With Older Toddlers

An infographic showing activities for babies to have fun and learn language skills. Read More

8 Fun Things to Do With Young Toddlers

An infographic showing activities for babies to have fun and learn language skills. Read More