Family Involvement in Your Child's Education By Age...Birth to 3

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• Families
• Education

Families

• Michigan Alliance for Families Early Childhood page
• A Guide to Your Child’s Development from Early On®
• The ABCs of Child Development
• Project Great Start
  • Tools for Parents
• Great Parents Great Start
• Project Find Michigan
  • Is your child struggling? Referral for children from birth to age 26 for Special Education Services
• Early On® Michigan - Early intervention services for infants and toddlers from birth to three
  • Concerned about your child’s development? Early On® Michigan Referral
  • Family Rights, the Process, Evaluations, Eligibility, Services, Individual Family Service Plan (IFSP), Natural Environments, Transition from Early On, Local Contacts and much more!
• University of Michigan: Developmental Delay
• NICHCY: Finding Help for Young Children with Disabilities (Birth-5) Note: about IDEA 2004 and Resources (updated 2005)
• NICHCY: Developmental Milestones
• Transition Ideas for Infants and Toddlers

Education

• Michigan Alliance for Families Education page
• Michigan Department of Education: Helping Children Learn to Read

• Transition from Early On®

• Procedural Safeguards and Family Rights

  • What Are Your Family's Rights?

  • Early On Procedural Safeguard Standards

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• More Information
• Multimedia, Online Learning & Tools
• Research

More Information

• University of Michigan: Your Child: Development & Behavior Resources
• Center for Disease Control and Prevention: Child Development
• Leading Change: Michigan Makes Early Childhood Literacy a Priority – for ALL Children
• Partnership for Reading: A Child Becomes a Reader – Birth Through Preschool
• Wonder Years Newsletters
• Prepare My Child for School: Early Childhood Education
• NICHCY: Early Intervention Resource Page
• Building the Legacy: IDEA 2004
  • Part C: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
• Great Start Connect

Multimedia, Online Learning & Tools

• Partners in Education
• Early On® Learning Opportunities
  • Early On® 101
  • Early On® Procedural Safeguards
  • Early On® Links to Online Learning Opportunities
  • Early On® Links to Onsite Learning Opportunities
• Register to take free workshops on the Early Childhood Technology Integrated Instructional System. Link to Early Childhood Technology Integrated Instructional System Workshops (9 workshops on various topics)
• Early literacy learning: 3 from CELL - The Center for Early Literacy Learning (CELL) has released three new CELLcasts for parents (audio/video versions of CELL practice guides for viewing online or downloading to an iPod/Mp3 player).World of Words teaches parents where to find everyday literacy-rich opportunities in their community. Get Write on It discusses ways to encourage early writing in toddlers. Listen Hear focuses on helping children make letter and sound connections while learning to read and spell.
• Best Practice Tutorial Series: Early childhood mental health - The Center for Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (ECMHC) offers this series of six tutorials, which are designed to enhance users' skills and knowledge around how to implement effective mental health consultation in Head Start and Early Head Start (HS/EHS) programs.

Research

• National Center for Education Statistics
• NICHCY Research Database
• State characteristics: Kindergarten - This StateNote examines key components of each state's kindergarten policy, including the lower compulsory age; entrance age; if districts must offer; and if students must attend. A December 2010 report from the Education Commission of the States.
• Recruitment and retention of EI professionals - This practice brief from the Personnel Improvement Center suggests strategies to improve the recruitment and retention of EI personnel, including related service providers such as occupational therapists, physical therapists, and speech-language pathologists.
• Family involvement in early childhood education - This research brief synthesizes the latest research that demonstrates how family involvement contributes to young children's learning and development.
• Young Latino infants and families: Parental involvement implications - This study provides a deeper understanding of how cultural practices combine with other factors to shape parenting behaviors among families in the United States in the first year of children's lives. Several findings provide information about ways in which practitioners and Latino families can more effectively engage with young Latino children to influence their cognitive, social, language, and literacy development-and therefore facilitate their school readiness.
• Making data come alive for families through young children's play - How to use children's work as a unique type of student data to track development and share children's progress with parents. From the Harvard Family Research Project.

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• Parents

Parents

• Parents As Teachers
  • Michigan Parents as Teachers
• Great Parents Interactive Map – What’s Happening in Your County
• Bridges4kids: Where to find help in Michigan

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• Michigan
• National

Michigan

• Office of Early Childhood Education & Family Services
• Directory: Early On Michigan Resources for Infants and Toddlers
• Michigan Resources on Early On Michigan Web Site – Many great resources!
• Michigan Directory of Intermediate School Districts (ISDs)

National

• Zero to Three
• Center for Early Literacy Learning
• Division for Early Childhood
• National Center for Early Development and Learning
• National Association for the Education of Young Children
• National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center
• Early Connections: Technology in Early Childhood Education
• Center for Evidence-Based Practice: Young Children with Challenging Behavior
• Disabilityinfo.gov: Education: Infants & Toddlers
• National Early Childhood Transition Center
• Center for Evidence-Based Practice: Technical Assistance Center on Social Emotional Intervention for Young Children
• National Association for the Education of Young Children

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