Cara's Kit for Toddlers: Creating Adaptations for Routines and Activities [With CDROM]

A follow-up to the bestselling CARA's Kit for Preschoolers, this real-world guide to successful adaptations is aligned with recommended practices in early childhood special education and early intervention. You'll use this complete kit to

• implement adaptations in key areas: environment, daily schedule, activities/routines, materials, and requirements or instruction
• increase engagement and participation for all children, including those with disabilities, challenging behaviors, and other special needs
• create and use adaptations anywhere—in a home, a child care center, or any other type of early childhood setting
• improve every aspect of toddlers' development, including physical, social, emotional, communication, and cognitive growth
• help toddlers make progress toward program standards by creating an environment where all children learn
• make daily activities run smoothly by addressing children's everyday challenges
• select and use the least intrusive adaptations to help a child participate

With CARA's Kit, you'll have a reader-friendly, full-color quick guide with invaluable tips and suggestions, a clear six-step process for planning and implementing adaptations, and dozens of possible solutions for increasing child participation in activities and routines. You'll also get a a suite of downloable materials with everything you need to make adaptations work:

• a how-to audio presentation in English and Spanish
• suggested adaptations for play time, art and sensory experiences, story time, community outings, drop off/pick up, transition between activities, and more
• more than 25 PowerPoint slides for preparing a group to use CARA's Kit
• an instrument to assess activities/routines, and
• printable forms for generating ideas and recording notes on your chosen adaptations and their results.

Great for self-study or professional development group sessions, CARA's Kit

is a must for early childhood teams across a wide range of settings. You'll use it year after year to ensure the best possible learning environment for young children with and without special needs.