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ERIC Number: EJ590136
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0044-0728
Training Family Child Care Providers To Work with Children Who Have Special Needs.
Crowley, Abby L. Winkler
Young Children, v54 n4 p58-61 Jul 1999
Notes the difficulty of finding quality day care for special needs children. Discusses Project Specialcare, designed to support family child-care providers who accept such children into their programs. Describes how providers participated in Saturday sessions focused on a topic followed by open discussion and how the advice and counsel of a professional mentor was available to all participants. (LBT)
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Development, Disabilities, Educational Opportunities, Family Day Care, Individual Needs, Mainstreaming, Mentors, Young Children
Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom; Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers: Day Care Quality; Maryland; Project SpecialCare; Special Needs Children