Developed by the Include Me ISA & SCAN teams, Honouring Indigenous Connections demonstrates how education and care services engage, embrace and embody the history and heritage of the Indigenous culture in their everyday practice.
This is a great resource that assists with reflective thinking around Indigenous inclusion.
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This resource is a visual 'snapshot' of inclusion to encourage educators to reflect on inclusive practice
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What inclusion may look and feel like for children, families and educators
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To support the development of healthy life-time sleep practices, educators need to work with children and families to provide appropriate opportunities to meet each child’s need for sleep, rest, and relaxation.
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This resource aims to assist practitioners to promote children’s resilience and raise community awareness about it more broadly. It aims to create a shared understanding of children's resilience, and highlight the best ways to build resilience through everyday strategies and structured interventions. This guide was created for practitioners working across a broad range of settings including early childhood education and care settings, primary schools, welfare and community-based health and mental health settings.
Information sheets, professional learning modules and webinars for educators about inclusion. Information sheet topics include: creating inclusive early childhood education and care services, the principles of inclusion, the legislation, leading and implementing change and working with families and service providers.
The purpose of this join position statement is to create a vision for high quality inclusive practices in early childhood education and care. The statement aims to assist educators in ECEC services, as well as support professionals, to fully include children with a disability and to achieve high quality outcomes for all children.
Faiths and Their Festivals is designed to help by giving background information to the faiths and celebrations in our multicultural society. It looks at the beliefs and core practices of the main faiths and describes the festivals associated with them.
These free snapshots have been developed by University of North Carolina's Frank Porter Graham Centre for practitioners and educators to use for each of six developmental phases. Each snapshot provides a review of key concepts; a listing of the skills developing in that phase; an image of how co-regulation looks in that phase; a review of lessons learned about interventions to promote self-regulation; key considerations for promoting self-regulation in that phase, and more.
This poster shows the journey of inclusion as a process that evolves as educators' understanding grows.
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The National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health has been established the Emerging Minds website to assist professionals and organisations who work with children and/or parents/families to have the skills to identify assess and support children at risk of mental health conditions.
Access free training, practice guides, webinars, tools, information and news.
This paper explores some of the characteristics of traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural practices that contribute to effective family functioning, and how these practices can have positive effects on children and communities.
The Early Childhood Intervention Coordination Project-Riverina have developed a DVD showing educators how to use visuals throughout the day to support all children. The DVD is available for purchase $15 +gst.
This one page resource describes what visuals are, briefly explores a range of visual support options and provides some tips to assist with implementing a communication system. A great resource sheet to assist IPs to support educators.
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The Working Together Agreement has been developed to support educators to work collaboratively with early childhood intervention practitioners and families to promote early childhood inclusion for young children with developmental delay and/or disability. This free package includes sample letters, checklists, the agreement itself and shared practice standards and guidelines.
Families NSW in the Sydney metropolitan area have produced resources for service providers to pass on to parents that provide advice and information on the social and emotional development of children. A related flipchart is available in four major community languages and has been adapted for Aboriginal families, Love, Yarn, Sing, Read, Play.
Early Childhood Australia and Early Childhood Intervention Australia - Position statement on the inclusion of children with a disability in early childhood education and care.
This website is undergoing an update but still has some very relevant information available that can support IPs in their coaching journey.
Cultural Connections Booklet developed by Child Australia, the WA & NT PSC, to support educators to engage in some of the key topics surrounding ‘respect of diversity’ and ‘cultural competency’. This resource focuses on cultural diversity in general.
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Aspect Early Intervention Program has produced a series of “How to” guides to help educators and parents support children with Autism.
A collection of resources to help support educators to include children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder. There are strategies, ideas, summary and time saving ideas.
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