Resource Library
This resource database was developed by the USC College of Education in collaboration with early childhood faculty at Greenville, Midlands, and Trident Technical Colleges through federal-grant funding to support early childhood faculty at South Carolina Technical Colleges to embed information about inclusion and supporting children with disabilities across early childhood coursework. When the federal grant ended, the researchers reached out to the Inclusion Collaborative to house the resource database on this website and to make it accessible to the wider early childhood community. The more than 300 high-quality resources include evidence-based strategies and community resources that support the inclusion young children with disabilities in early childhood settings.
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ArtExpress Curriculum
Creative Arts
This website offers information on a comprehensive expressive arts curriculum for young children with disabilities, including chapter overviews and sample lesson plans for Drawing to Music, Drawing with Crayons, and The Three Little Pigs.
Arts Facts: Early Childhood Arts Education Improves Cognitive Development
Creative Arts
This Americans for the Arts fact sheet summarizes research showing how arts experiences in early childhood support children's cognitive development and school readiness.
Arts Learning Resources: Assessment Tools
Creative Arts
This Arizona Commission on the Arts page offers assessment tools and planning resources for arts educators and teaching artists, including ways to document and evaluate student learning in the arts.
Avoiding Misinterpretations of Piaget and Vygotsky: Mathematical Teaching without Learning, Learning without Teaching, or Helpful Learning-Path Teaching
Early Math
The peer-reviewed article published in Cognitive Development examines common misinterpretations of Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky's developmental theories in mathematics education.
BabyNet
Information about Disability
This official portal for South Carolina's IDEA Part C early intervention system serves children from birth to three years old.
Back to School: Promoting Social-Emotional Skills and Preventing Challenging Behavior
Social-Emotional Development
This recorded webinar shares strategies to promote children's social-emotional skills and prevent challenging behavior at the start of the school year.
Barriers to Family Engagement
Family Support
This text analyzes the primary obstacles to active collaboration—including parent time constraints, negative past experiences with school systems, language diversity, economic pressures, and cultural misunderstandings.
Basic Steps of the Early Intervention Process.
Information about Disability
his handout walks through the eight steps of early intervention for infants and toddlers with disabilities or delays, from referral and evaluation to the IFSP, services, and transition at age 3.
Becoming Bilingual: The Challenges of Teaching English Language Learners to Read
Dual Language Learners
This video is a 30-minute PBS program that examines the challenges of teaching children to read in a new language.