Inclusive Education in Early Childhood Settings

• Serving Children with Special Needs in your Child Care Facility 1996
• First Steps: Stories on Inclusion in Early Childhood Education is a compilation of case studies prepared by UNESCO's Special Needs Education Division. Contact: UNESCO, Special Needs Education, 7 Place de Fontenoy, 75352 Paris 07 FRANCE
• Education for Children and Youth with Disabilities:Primary level upwards. 2002. UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
• Early Childhood Special Education-Teaching Strategies 2000 ERIC Clearinghouseon Disabilities and Gifted Education features a comprehensive list (abstracts) of relevant documents 
• Wolery, M., & Wilbers, J. S. (1994). Introduction to the inclusion of young children with special needs in early childhood programs. In M. Wolery and J. S. Wilbers (Eds.), Including children with special needs in early childhood programs (pp. 1-22). Washington, DC: National Association for the Education of Young Children.
• The benefits of an inclusive education: making it work NAEYC

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Other Useful Links

• Center for International Rehabilitation (CIR)
• Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights (PACER) Proposed benefits of Preschool Inclusion
• National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities (USA)
• Enabling Education Network (EENET) is an information-sharing network aimed at supporting and promoting the inclusion of marginalized groups in education worldwide. It publishes a newsletter, one of which so far addressed Early Intervention Programs. Contact: EENET, Centre for Educational Needs, School of Education, university of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K.

Initiatives/Interventions

• Disabled Children and the Convention on the Rights of the Child: an Advocacy Tool - A project initiated by the Save the Children Alliance Task Group on Disability & Discrimination, to document examples of violations and good practice in relation to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and disabled children.