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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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It's a Three-Way Conversation: Families, Service Providers, and Interpreters Working Together.
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Ohtake, Yoshi; Santos, Rosa Milagros; Fowler, Susan A. – Young Exceptional Children, 2000
This article reviews literature on the use of interpreters and offers recommendations that will promote effective communication among family members, service providers, and interpreters who speak the family's language, but have not been trained formally as interpreters or special educators. The complexity of the interpretation process is…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Early Intervention, Individualized Family Service Plans, Interpersonal Communication
Interagency Agreements: A Proactive Tool for Improving the Transition from Early Intervention to Preschool Special Education Services.
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Hadden, D. Sarah; Fowler, Susan A. – Young Exceptional Children, 2000
This article offers guidelines to help agencies develop and write interagency agreements covering the transition of young children with disabilities from early intervention programs to public special education services. Guidelines cover the content and process of writing an agreement and finalizing, signing, and monitoring the agreement. Sample…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Coordination, Disabilities, Early Intervention
Peer Coaching: Teachers Supporting Teachers.
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Donegan, Mary M.; Ostrosky, Michaelene M.; Fowler, Susan A. – Young Exceptional Children, 2000
This article describes peer coaching as a method for teacher improvement and offers guidelines for establishing a peer coaching program for early childhood and early childhood special education teachers and related services professionals. It also identifies common problems and possible solutions of peer coaching programs. Sample forms for use in…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Peer Coaching