Concerned about the development and well-being of a young child with disabilities, birth to 5?
Come meet the 5 key Early Childhood Centers funded by OSEP to address the needs of, and improve results for, our very young children with disabilities
Looking for your state’s program for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers with disabilities?
Visit ECTA, which can connect you with state and local level intervention programs for young children (birth to 5).
ECTA also works with state program coordinators to support the use of evidence-based practices with young children.
ECTA | Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center
https://ectacenter.org/
Who works with the children?
ECPC helps states build systems of personnel development to make sure we have enough early childhood professionals for the children and that those professionals are well trained to do so. Want to be an early interventionist? An early childhood trainer? ECPC is the center to contact.
ECPC | Early Childhood Personnel Center
https://ecpcta.org/
Have a little builder or a budding scientist at home?
STEMIE is all about creating learning opportunities in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) for young children with disabilities (0-5).
STEMIE | The STEM Innovation for Inclusion in Early Education Center
https://stemie.fpg.unc.edu/
Care about quality data? It makes for quality decisions!
Data systems are essential to every state’s early intervention and early childhood special education programs.
DaSy helps states build those systems and use the data to improve results for young children with disabilities and their families.
DaSy | Center for IDEA Early Childhood Data System
https://dasycenter.org/
Working or living with a young child with behavior challenges or social-emotional issues?
NCPMI offers the Pyramid Model to early childhood programs as an effective response to challenging behaviors in children birth to 5.
NCPMI also produces many helpful tipsheets for families to use at home and in the community.
NCPMI | The National Center for Pyramid Model Innovations
https://challengingbehavior.org
