Training Guides for the Head Start Learning Community: Setting the Stage.Including Children with Disabilities in Head Start

摘要

The letter on the previous page, written by a Head Start parent, underscores thebelief, commitment, and support it takes to include children with disabilities in Head Start. Anthony's mother describes an outcome we hope this guide will help accomplish--to have every child and every family feel affirmed and supported for who they are and what they have to offer. To achieve this result, we must view a child with a disability first and foremost as a child, with a unique personality, abilities, likes, and dislikes. That is the purpose of this foundation guide written for all Head Start staff, parents, and consultants--to support Head Start's efforts to include children with disabilities in the various worlds around them. This guide will be useful to all Head Start programs--those that have just begun to reach out to and serve children with more significant disabilities, and programs that have considerable experience.