Building Blocks for Teaching Preschoolers with Special Needs, Third Edition

Susan Sandall, Ph.D., Ilene Schwartz, Ph.D., BCBA-D, Gail Joseph, Ph.D., Ariane Gauvreau, Ph.D., BCBA-D 

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Building Blocks for Teaching Preschoolers with Special Needs, Third Edition includes the Building Blocks Framework. This framework is a set of four educational practices aimed to help teachers include young children with disabilities and other special needs more effectively in early childhood classrooms and programs (Sandall, Schwartz, Joseph, & Gauvreau, 2019, p. 3). 

DEC DECIDE Doctoral Seminar on Evidence Based Practices in Early Childhood Special Education

Summer 2015 - Course for doctoral students to explore DEC's newly revised RPs in EI/ECSE.

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DEC Learning Decks

• Deliver Effective Professional Development and Support Inclusion: 3 Tips for Blending Practices

• Healthy Infants: Prevention-Promotion Supports for Vulnerable Families in Rural and Urban Communities

• Home Visiting in Early Childhood Special Education: Effective Strategies and Practices

• Just in Time: Providing “Real Time” Feedback to Teachers Around Individualized Behavior Support Strategies

• Outdoor Behavior of Young Children With and Without Disabilities in Early Childhood Environments

• Preschoolers, Private Parts and Playmates: When to Really Worry!

• Prevent-Teach-Reinforce for Young Children: An Individualized Model of Positive Behavior Support for Early Childhood Settings

• Promoting Appropriate Behavior Using Visual Supports

• Systematic Monitoring of Young Children's Social-Emotional Competence and Challenging Behaviors

• Using Embedded Learning Opportunities in Inclusive Preschool Routines and Activities

• Using Prompting Procedures to Teach Skills

DEC Recommended Practices (PDF)

DEC RP Monograph Series

DEC Recommended Practices Videos

Three brief videos around DEC RPs, including an overview.

Early Childhood Behavior Management: Developing and Teaching Rules (Module)​

Early Childhood Environments: Designing Effective Classrooms (Module)

Six Steps to Inclusive Preschool Curriculum: A UDL-Based Framework for Children's
School Success