Inclusive Early Intervention Practices (ECE378)

ECE378 Inclusive Early Intervention Practices aims to enhance an educator’s role to facilitate meaningful learning and participation for all children and to establish partnerships with key personnel with reference to the local early intervention services. The course invites learners to reflect on their personal beliefs and insights of inclusion, a crucial first step to further understand diversity and inclusion. The course also seeks to equip learners with broadened perspectives of inclusion and deepen their knowledge in quality early childhood inclusive practices. Through the course, learners will apply the philosophies, practices and strategies of inclusion support that empower families and best meet the needs children with diverse needs.

• Quality early intervention inclusive practices
• Inclusivity culture and diversity
• Early childhood intervention philosophies
• Instructional strategies to support the inclusion of children with diverse needs
• Family engagement and empowerment
• Family-capacity building
• Designing embedded intervention
• Implementing embedded intervention
• Monitoring progress of children with diverse needs
• Transition-to-school practices
• Collaboration in the inclusive school setting
• Partnerships with agencies and team personnel

• Interpret the features and value of quality inclusive practices
• Analyse early childhood intervention philosophies and approaches
• Propose effective ways to empower families with children with diverse needs
• Apply instructional strategies in supporting the inclusion of children with diverse needs
• Design plans for embedded intervention to promote child’s participation
• Recommend approaches of partnerships with teams and/or agencies to support families and children with diverse needs