Children with special needs in early childhood settings
(Book)

Includes index.

"The purpose of this resource book is to help teachers and child care personnel to recognize children whose physical, social, emotional, speech and language, overall communication skills, and/or cognitive development is different from that of other children of their age; to support those working with young children in knowing what questions to ask and what symptons to look for, if they suspect there are previously unidentified concerns with regard to a child's developmental patterns; to know what steps to take if they have concerns about the development of a child whose condition has not been previously observed; and to provide teachers of young children with interim interaction and program suggestions on how to work most effectively with a child presenting with a possible physical, social, emotional, behavioral, speech and language, and/or intellectual problem until specialists are available to offer support in programming for the specific needs of an individual child."--Jacket.