C reating a Vision H ooking the Team O ffering Motivation Individualizing Options C apturing Opportunities E ncouraging Friendships S upporting Independence

•Creating a Vision

•Hooking the Team

•Offering Motivation

•Individualizing Options

•Capturing Opportunities

•Encouraging Friendships

•Supporting Independence

Family, Community, and State Perspectives for Expanding Preschool LRE in Wisconsin

August 2005

Choices and Options for Including Young Children with

Disabilities


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Creating a Vision

• Ask about the parent’s vision.

• Where would your child be if she did not have a disability?

TOOL: Put the Planning Back in the IEP


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Creating a Vision

• Where are we as a state?

• What is our vision?

• Where are the children?


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YOU are here


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Wisconsin Early Childhood Collaborating Partners

WECCP


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Wisconsin Model

Early Learning Standards

WMELS


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State Improvement Grant

Preschool IDEA Discretionary Grants


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Quality

Education and Care

for all Young Children

in Wisconsin


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Creating a Vision

• It’s the law

• Options are not optional ( or what we’ve learned).


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Creating a Vision

continuum of alternative placements

including integrated placement options, such as community-based settings with typically developing age peers, must be available to preschool children with disabilities.”

the placement decision is made by a group knowledgeable about … placement options


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• Expect apprehension• Plan for communication• Build trust

TOOL: Joni story


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• Expect apprehension

• Plan for communication

• Build trust

TOOL: Research articles, circle chart


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Gains in cognitive, language and motor skills for children with disabilities in inclusive settings are comparable to those in self-contained.

(Buysee & Bailey, 1993; Fewell & Oelwein, 1999, Jenkins, Odom, & Speltz, 1985; Wolery & McWilliam, 1998).


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“Families realized that the children did better than we all had expected in the community placements and that they were acting more like children than special education students…”

Bruder, 2000


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Offering Motivation


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Offering Motivation

• Preschool Options Project Overview

• Minigrants to communities

• Technical assistance


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State of Wisconsin


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Chippewa Falls


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Individualizing Options

•IEP GOALS for a child (not a place)

•Keep family priorities in mind

•How will we know we’ve been successful?


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A tool for individualizing:

LINK worksheet

• Strengths

• Needs

• Parent concerns

• How the disability affects involvement in age-appropriate activities


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“Erika will be able to communicate with and be understood by listeners—peers, adults, etc. who are unfamiliar with her. Messages understood—observed 8 of 10 opportunities.”


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Individualizing Options3. What questions should the IEP team consider as

they determine the setting(s) for the delivery of services to a preschooler with a disability?

• Where does the child usually spend time? Do these settings include peers?

• Can the goals be met with the use of supplementary aids and services in age appropriate settings?

• If not, what other settings for service delivery will meet the child’s needs?

TOOL: Bulletin 00.09


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It looks different for each child

in each community.


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Capturing Opportunities

• Building on the family’s unique culture

• Strengthening the investment


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Capturing Opportunities• Building on the

community’s unique culture

• Strengthening the investment

TOOL: house activity


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Encouraging Friendships

• Part of our vision• Planning for

friendships• Results!


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•Part of our vision•Planning for friendships•Results!


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“Effective partnerships between

parents and professionals require collaboration.

It is hard work.” -J. Fialka


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Supporting Independence

Refocusing on Goals:

• Erika needing less support

• Family’s freedom from preconceived notions of the future

• “What can we create here?”


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• Keeping the child at the heart of our work

• Breaking free of preconceived notions

• “What can we create together?”


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It happens one child at a time…

in communities that have identifieda full array of

preschool choices and options!


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“Preschool CHOICES and Options”

presented by

Lisa PughMary JoslinSue AlbertMary Peters

ResourcesPreschool Options Project

www.preschooloptions.org

Wisconsin Department of Public Instructionwww.dpi.state.wi.us

Wisconsin Early Childhood Collaborating Partnerswww.collaboratingpartners.com

Wisconsin State Improvement Grant (SIG)http://www.wisconsinsig.org/

WI FACETSwww.wifacets.org

Wisconsin Statewide Parent-Educator Initiative (WSPEI) www.dpi.state.wi.us/een/parent.html

Wisconsin Assistive Technology Initative (WATI)http://www.wati.org/

University of Wisconsin-Madison Waisman Centerhttp://www.waisman.wisc.edu/birthto3/index.htmlx

National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Centerhttp://www.nectac.org/

Documents

C reating a Vision H ooking the Team O ffering Motivation Individualizing Options C apturing Opportunities E ncouraging Friendships S upporting Independence