Collaborative Service Delivery for Inclusion
A workshop offered as part of SC TEAMS Summer University. Register here!
A key barrier to inclusive opportunities is effectivecollaborative teaming between early care and education programs and serviceproviders. This session will share strategies for implementing services inearly childhood settings to ensure all young children with disabilities haveaccess to and participation in inclusive experiences and positive outcomes.This session will support participants to1) connect inclusion todevelopmentally appropriate practice, 2) use tools to support general educatorsto plan routines and activities with every child in mind, 3) engage incollaboration including coaching and consultation centering educatorwell-being, and 4) partner with families to write strengths-based IEPs withinclusion in mind. General education providers and assistants, early childhoodspecial educators, related service providers, and administrators are invited tothis interactive workshop focused on the individual structures and process inthe community that can support children and families to receive services acrossenvironments.
About the Presenter:
Alissa Rausch, EdD, is Associate Research Faculty and AssociateDirector in the Marsico Institute for Early Learning at the University ofDenver. Her work in higher education developed from fifteen years of practiceas an early childhood educator working in inclusive preschool classroomsserving young children and their families. Alissa has had the privilege ofpartnering with leaders, providers, families, and children in their homes andin community settings. Currently, she is a technical assistant specialist onthe Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center (ECTA). Her work includessupporting leaders and providers to build their capacity for high-quality earlycare and learning, and for the inclusion of children diagnosed withdisabilities in practice, sustainable systems, and grassroots advocacy.Previously, she has worked as a faculty member in early childhood education andearly childhood special education undergraduate and graduate personnelpreparation.
