Developmentally Appropriate Strategies for Promoting Full Participation in Early Childhood Settings
- 1 July 1993
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Topics in Early Childhood Special Education
- Vol. 13 (3), 293-307
- https://doi.org/10.1177/027112149301300307
Abstract
Integrating young children with disabilities into mainstream preschools with nondisabled children presents numerous challenges. One major stumbling block to integration is the seeming incompatibility of traditional didactic early intervention techniques with the developmentally appropriate practices common to quality mainstream preschool settings. We present strategies for intervention that are in harmony with developmentally appropriate practice and incorporate special educational principles that have enabled children with disabilities to participate more fully in integrated settings while achieving individualized goals and objectives. The strategies are grouped into four categories: attention and responsiveness to the child, environmental structuring, adult mediation, and peer mediation. The strategies are presented with examples to illustrate their use.Keywords
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