Teaching Infants, Toddlers, and Twos with Special Needs: Eye to Eye with the Unknown

Easy-to-implement strategies for teaching infants, toddlers, and twos with special needs.
Placing children with special needs in environments that include typically developing peers has become commonplace as continuing research confirms that all children benefit and learn from each other as well as from their teachers.
Teaching Infants, Toddlers, and Twos with Special Needs is written for all teachers and directors who work with infants, toddlers, and twos, including special educators and educators working with typically developing children. This book specifically addresses the needs of children with developmental delays, as well as children at risk for developing special needs.
Each chapter includes information about how infants, toddlers, and twos learn. The strategies and adaptations in each chapter are easy to use and apply to all children. Examples are presented for managing the physical environment and for teaching skills that will enhance the overall development of infants, toddlers, and twos with special needs.
Chapters include:

• What Do I Do First?
• Year One—The Journey Begins
• Older Infants, Toddlers, and Twos
• Environments for Infants, Toddlers, and Twos
• Life Skills
• Eating and Feeding Issues
• Communications
• Cognitive Development and Play
• Social Competence
• Motor Development
• Family

Clarissa Willis, PhD, is a frequent keynote speaker and presenter at regional and national early childhood conferences. Previously, Clarissa was the associate director of the Center of Excellence in Early Childhood Learning and Development and associate professor of Special Education at East Tennessee State University. Her articles on child development and early childhood special education have been published both nationally and internationally.