Overview

This session will explore strategies to strengthen capacity of state IDEA Part C programs to identify and meet social–emotional and mental health needs of young children. Participants will review results of a 50-state survey on this topic and discuss trends, key questions, and innovative approaches in early intervention policy and practice.

Faculty & P-5 Competency Domains

Faculty: Andy Gomm, Public Consulting Group; Elisabeth Burak, MPP, MSW, Georgetown University; Lindsay Usry, MPH, ZERO TO THREE, Sheila Smith, PhD, National Center for Children in Poverty

P-5 Competency Domains:

• P-5 (6) Leadership to Meet Family Needs and Improve Services and Systems
• P-5 (4) Health and Developmental Protective and Risk Factors

Presenters have affirmed that they do not have proprietary interest in products, instruments, devices, services or materials discussed in this event, and have confirmed that they have not been compensated in relation to this presentation.

Overview

The interface between emotional development and education is a process of developmental integration of experience during the preschool years and is essential for preparing young children with autism (birth to 5) for successful learning. This process is one of experience acquired through interactions within relationships that allow you to know your feelings, desires, and sense of who you are, in conjunction with experience discovering the environment. Experience even has its own developmental progression or hierarchy, and we will describe the infant’s role in taking charge of his personal experience which creates need, desire, and persistence to learn.

Based on the Developmental, Individual Difference and Relationship Model and Foundational Capacities for Development, we will also explore how education is a process, rather than content, and how emotions organize social, intellectual, and functional capacities such as social attention, initiation, intentionality, problem solving, and symbolic expression of emotions. We will examine the barriers related to the child’s individual differences, which is basically what autism is—brain wiring differences, the accommodations that might impede development, and how relationships provide the perfect platform for the child’s neuroception of safety for discovery and emotional readiness for competence and confidence as a learner.

(Note: Issue Intensive sessions are designed to be delivered in two parts. Part Two of this session is featured on the same day at 3:30 pm.)

Faculty & P-5 Competency Domains

Faculty: Monica Osgood, Celebrate the Children School; Serena Wieder, PhD, Profectum Foundation

P-5 Competency Domains:

• P-5 (1) Early Childhood Development
• P-5 (4) Health and Developmental Protective and Risk Factors

Presenters have affirmed that they do not have proprietary interest in products, instruments, devices, services or materials discussed in this event, and have confirmed that they have not been compensated in relation to this presentation.