Before I start, just a little bit of background information. And talk about some of the starting points to get new efforts underway.
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And I'm the first presenter in our series and I'll be talking about how we can go about adopting high-quality inclusive service models. I'm director of the Early Childhood Center at the Indiana institute on disability and community at Indiana University. We are substantially behind and educate very few of our preschoolers with disabilities in regular education settings. When we look at how well our state does in comparison to other states. And when you look at this, you can see that many of our school districts provide services to well under half of all preschool-aged children with disabilities.
Now, each dot in this scatter plot represents a school district here in Indiana. That's along the bottom axis, and along with the percentage of children who make substantial progress according to the federal outcomes that are state measures. And this is based on Indiana's data in which we chart the percentage of children receiving inclusive services. Why are we talking about this? Some of you may have seen this before. And we want to ensure that they are also demonstrating substantial growth in their learning and development. It's important for them to be a part of the mainstream and have the opportunity to be fully included. And then finally, we want children to learn. We want children to be fully included as members of that classroom. Third, we want to make sure that those regular education settings provide all of the social and learning opportunities that are available for all children. We also want to make sure that they receive the intensity of supports and services that we provide in special education. Just because we're looking at including kids with disabilities and regular classrooms. Second, we want children receive the level and intensity of services and supports that match their individual learning needs. They are embedded within the regular preschool setting.
Services aren't being delivered elsewhere. For the preschoolers with disabilities, we want those services, special education-related services, to be provided within the regular early childhood classroom settings and routines. What do we mean by effective and inclusive services? When we have four criteria. What it takes to implement effective, inclusive preschool services. Description of the video: Hi, welcome to our initial webinar as part of our Early Childhood Center webinar series.
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