Early Intervention - Other Useful Links
Barkley Preschool, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, uses the Team Teaching model in which all special education staff, services and students are completely integrated within the general Head Start program. Instruction to students of varying skills and abilities is provided by all staff members. More information is available at: http://www.circleofinclusion.org/english/demo/lincolnbarkley/index.html
Centre of Early Intervention "VOINICEL", Chisinau, Moldova, created in 2003 by the support of AHEAD-Moldova from Norway, is a non-governmental organization, which aims to prevent the institutionalization of children with special needs and promote the social inclusion of families and children with disabilities. More information is available at: http://eng.voinicel.md/.
Down Syndrome South Africa (DSSA), Bedforview, South Africa, is the national umbrella body of Down Syndrome Associations across South Africa. It helps to establish outreach programs, support advocacy and lobbying work and training to enable people with Down syndrome and other intellectual disabilities to stand up and speak for themselves. More information is available at: http://www.downsyndrome.org.za/main.aspx?artid=66.
The Early Bird Programme of the National Autistic Society, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom, combines group center-based training sessions for parents of children with autism spectrum disorders with individual home visits to help parents apply what they learn and work directly with their children. More information is available at: http://www.nas.org.uk/earlybird.
Early Childhood Intervention Australia (ECIA), North Rocks, NSW, Australia provides a national focus and forum, promotes the public profile of Early Childhood Intervention, facilitates effective liaison and advocacy in the community, and fosters quality information and service provision. Services include organization of seminars, workshops and a national conference every two years. It also provides an overview of resources on issues relevant to early intervention. More information is available at: http://www.ecia.org.au/links.htm.
Early Childhood Research Institute, Champaign, Illinois, USA, makes available a number of English-language reports on various aspects and models of early intervention, including culturally and linguistically appropriate services. More information is available at:
http://www.clas.uiuc.edu/techreports.html.
Early Childhood Research Institute on Measuring Growth and Development, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, aims to produce a comprehensive system for continuously measuring the skills and needs of individual children with disabilities from birth to eight years of age. This measurement system includes two major elements: growth and development indicators for monitoring the progress of individual young children and solutions-oriented assessments. This allows families, early childhood and early elementary educators to identify features of classroom and home settings they can change to improve children's developmental outcomes. More information is available at: http://www.startaid.com/review/1035850/Early-Childhood-Research-Institute-on-Measuring-Growth-and-Development.html.
European Association of Early Intervention is a clearing-house for information on early intervention. It includes resources on national programs in European countries and on disability-specific services worldwide. More information is available at: http://www.eurlyaid.net/.
Global Early Intervention Network assists parents, service providers, specialists and others to learn more about early intervention by providing online resources categorized by types of intervention and specific disabilities. More information is available at: http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/cp/ei/.
International Resources on Early Intervention from the National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA is a starting point for individuals interested in learning more about the international landscape of early care and intervention services for vulnerable young children and their families. It provides links to key international organizations and resources and gives an idea of how much information is available, who produces it, and why it is important to consider other countries' policies and practices in this field and how they are similar to or different to those in the USA. More information is available at: http://www.nectac.org/topics/intl/intl.asp.
International Society on Early Intervention, Seattle, Washington, USA, has a large number of publications, resources and links about early intervention. More information is available at: http://depts.washington.edu/iseii.
Waisman Center, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, makes available a variety of English-language early intervention resources for families and health care providers. More information is available at:http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/birthto3/.