Supports and Services in Early Childhood

Educational Service Center of Cuyahoga County

1. Parent involvement/partnerships

a. ODE Family Page

b. Resources to Help Families PreK through Kindergarten

c. Your Preschool Child’s Development and Learning

d. Living Learning and Playing Together, A Guide for Parents

e. Boosting Your Child’s Brainpower

2. Ohio Department of Education

a. Early Learning Content Standards

b. Early Learning Program Guidelines

3. Assessment strategies

a. Evaluations for suspected disability—link to

i. Catalog of Screening and Assessment Instruments for Young Children

ii. Operating Standards and Related Guidance

b. ODE required assessment of preschool and kindergarten programs

i. Health and Developmental screenings [link to Early Learning Program Guidelines see reference above]

ii. Get It, Got It, Go! [GGG]

iii. Ages and Stages Questionnaire: Social-Emotional [ASQ:SE]

1. Preschool Special Education Requirements

2. Early Childhood Entitlement (ECE) Program Requirements

iv. Early Childhood Outcomes (ECO)

v. Kindergarten screening procedures

vi. Kindergarten Readiness Assessment-Literacy (KRA-L)

c. A Way of Knowing: A Teacher's Guide to Classroom-based Assessment of Young Children

4. Transitions

a. IDEA Part C [early intervention] to Part B [preschool special education]

i. SST 3 Transition Directory [Undergoing revision]

ii. ODE Age 3c2B Transition resource

b. Part B (preschool special education) to Part B (school-age)

i. Ready Schools

ii. Interagency Agreement between school districts, Cuyahoga County Board of Developmental Disabilities, Early Head Start/Head Start, Starting Point and SST 3

5. Compliance with federal and state special education laws and regulations

6. Continuous Improvement/Program Evaluation for preschool programs

a. Preschool Licensing Rules

b. IMPACT Rubric and Program Plan

7. Access to general curriculum and high-quality instruction for young children

a. FAPE

i. High quality Itinerant early childhood special education position paper

b. LRE

i. Updates, September 2010

c. Inclusion

i. Special Quest

8. Use of data for class and individual planning

a. Get It, Got It, Go! Workbook

9. Assistance to early childhood programs

a. Early literacy and instructional interventions

b. Social-Emotional needs of young children

i. Center for Social Emotional Foundations of Early Learning

10. Kindergarten

a. Kindergarten screening procedures

b. Kindergarten Readiness Assessment-Literacy (KRA-L)

c. Ready Schools

11. English Language Learners

12. Support for Ohio Improvement Process [OIP]