Building Blocks for Teaching Preschoolers with Special Needs, Second Edition [With CDROM]

Susan R. Sandall and Ilene S. Schwartz's BUILDING BLOCKS FOR TEACHING PRESCHOOLERS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS, 2ND EDITION offers a lifeline for preschool teachers in a survey focusing on fully including children with disabilities in early childhood classrooms. The idea is to offer a framework helping educators meet federal requirements for early education, with a cd-rom holding all printable forms - worksheets, child evaluation forms and more - key to interacting with kids from diverse backgrounds. Teachers and education libraries will find it a fine tool surveying different preschool program teaching methods and objectives.

Building Blocks for Teaching Preschoolers with Special Needs is an Outstanding book that specifically focuses on Best Practices for Children with Special Needs. The book illustrates strategies and provides tools for setting up both student with special needs and their teachers for success. Once more the strategies are practical to the high quality inclusion of children in the typical public school classroom. It is a must read for anyone who works with early childhood special education children.Dec Recommended Practices in Early Intervention/Early Childhood Special Education

This is a great book if you're just starting out in the field of early childhood special education.The concepts described are clear, consise and understandable. It has a variety of great activities as well as usuable teacher-friendly assessment templates.

I coordinate a state-wide Inclusion Grant and we have purchased this book for each of our grant teams for the past 3 years. Every teacher I have talked to has loved this book. The tools can be used for all situations. I would highly recommend this book to anyone working with young children!