Given at the 2022 annual Child Care Policy Research Partnership grantee meeting, this presentation summarizes: enrollment trends in California subsidized child care and preschool special education, challenges in interpreting administrative data over the last few years and opportunities for inclusion and use of data.
This brief summarizes key findings on children ages 3 through 5 years with disabilities in subsidized care in California. The data are from the Child Development Management Information System (CDMIS) from 2015 to 2019.
This study presentation was given at the International Early Childhood Inclusion Institute in October 2021. Successful inclusion requires collaboration between the early childhood special education (ECSE) and early childhood education (ECE) sectors.
This study presentation was given at the Division for Early Childhood’s (DEC) 37th Annual International Conference on Young Children with Special Needs and Their Families in September 2021
Despite a focus on increasing inclusion in California, only 3% of preschoolers receiving subsidized care have disabilities.
All of California’s families deserve high-quality child care options for their children. For the families of children with disabilities, this need is even more pressing. Despite efforts to include children with disabilities in subsidized child care, less than 2% of children under 5 in subsidized child care in California have a disability. Download the Flyer … Continue reading Study Flyer: Inclusion of Children with Disabilities in Subsidized Child Care in California
A Joint Position Statement of the Division for Early Childhood (DEC) and the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) This DEC/NAEYC joint position statement offers a definition of early childhood inclusion and offers recommendations for how the position statement should be used by families, practitioners, administrators, policy makers, and others to improve … Continue reading DEC/NAEYC Position Statement on Inclusion