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15 Behavior Strategies for Autistic Children
Publication
This article includes practical, supportive behavior strategies for children on the autism spectrum. While written for parents, many of the strategies can be adapted for the classroom setting and can even help children without autism who have challenging behaviors. Program staff can begin practicing these strategies to support inclusive classrooms.
Age(s): Infant, Toddler, Preschool, School-age
A Relationship-Based Approach to Family Engagement
Online Course
Head Start’s Early Childhood Learning & Knowledge Center (ECLKC) offers strategies practitioners can create a relationship-based culture supporting family engagement. Practitioners will further build their knowledge in making successful, collaborative program staff and family partnerships.
Age(s): Infant, Toddler, Preschool, School-age
About Circle Infant & Toddler Curriculum
Curriculum
The Circle Infant and Toddler Curriculum provides everything your program needs to implement positive and engaging learning environments and experiences that support children’s individual needs, interests, and abilities while building a joy for learning.
Age(s): Infant, Toddler
About Circle Pre-K Curriculum
Curriculum
The Circle Pre-K Curriculum supports the cognitive, social, and emotional development of pre-K children. Professional development resources such as video tutorials, lesson plan templates, and the teacher’s manual act as curriculum planning supports for weekly planning and instruction. This research-based curriculum and its resources are freely available to early learning programs through CLI Engage.
Age(s): Preschool
Access to Real Objects
Photo Example
These photos show an environment where children can be actively engaged in hands-on activities using real objects. These materials are thoughtfully organized in different interest areas, allowing children to explore and learn through direct interaction.
Age(s): Infant, Toddler, Preschool, School-age
Accommodations for Families
Example Document
Here is an exemplary written policy outlining how a program supports families and children who may need additional accommodations. Program leaders can include similar policies in the program’s family handbook as evidence of programmatic processes and classroom accommodations for families and children to include home language, differing abilities, and/or cultural backgrounds. This sample is available in English and Spanish.
Age(s): Infant, Toddler, Preschool, School-age
Accommodations to the Physical Environment: Setting Up a Classroom for Students with Visual Disabilities
Online Course
Program staff can use this online module by the Vanderbilt IRIS Center to learn about how to accommodate children with visual disabilities in a physical learning environment by becoming familiar with common devices used, techniques on how to guide children and tips for setting up the classroom.
Age(s): Infant, Toddler, Preschool, School-age
Act Early Texas!
Toolkit
Early identification can significantly impact the life of a young child with a developmental delay or disorder. Act Early Texas! offers parents and early childhood professionals valuable information to pinpoint areas where a child’s development may differ from their peers, ensuring timely intervention.
Age(s): Infant, Toddler, Preschool
Action Songs
Activity
Action Songs, a publication created by Massachusetts Dept. of Early Education and Care, gives teachers suggestions of how they can support a playful attitude. The reader will read about how they can engage toddlers in repetitious songs which are fun but also help with vocabulary expansion.
Age(s): Toddler
Action Songs
Activity
This publication from WGBH Educational Foundation gives suggestions on how to use songs to label concepts and to narrate the actions children may take. Using songs to label actions and concepts build children’s vocabulary so they are more likely to use those same words when communicating with others.
Age(s): Toddler
Activities To Do at Home
Activity
PBS Kids for Parents has a variety of crafts, experiments, and learning activities for families to do at home with their children. Families can filter this free activity collection by age, topics, and their child’s favorite PBS television show.
Age(s): Infant, Toddler, Preschool, School-age
Video Example
In this series of exemplar video segments, teachers showcase their ability to adjust their behavior to meet the needs, interest and abilities of infant, toddlers, preschoolers and after school children throughout the day. The teachers show no preference or rejection towards any of the children in their care.
Age(s): Infant, Toddler, Preschool, School-age
All the Feelings I Feel
Activity
Through a read-aloud, children learn how to name their and others’ feelings. Practitioners can stop during reading to encourage children to act out feelings or make connections between the book and their lives. Modeling and encouraging children to express their feelings supports their emotional development.
Age(s): Toddler
All the Feelings I Feel
Activity
While participating in a read-aloud about feelings, children name feelings and talk about what makes them feel that way. If a child says “fall down” in response to a question about what makes him sad, the teacher might provide a short explanation by saying, “Jordan feels sad when he falls down.” Identifying feelings and what caused them is an important step in developing children’s self-regulation skills.
Age(s): Toddler
Video Example
In this video exemplar, the teachers pause to give the children an opportunity to respond. Some children may need more time while others may need less, so it is important for teachers to listen attentively and wait patiently while children attempt to verbally respond to questions.
Age(s): Infant, Toddler, Preschool, School-age