SpeciaLink-the National Centre for Child
Care Inclusion at the University of Winnipeg is housed in the
UW’s Helen Betty Osborne Building in the second floor
of 511 Ellice Avenue in inner city Winnipeg.
Within the same community hub, SpeciaLink shares space with
the University’s innovative Wii Chiiwaakanak Learning
Centre and other Aboriginal education initiatives such as Community-based
Aboriginal Teacher Education Program (CATEP), and Winnipeg Education
Centre (WEC) ACCESS Program as well as the World Council for
Gifted and Talented Education. The building’s other resources
range from access to the RBC Community Learning Commons state-of-the-art
computer lab to one-on-one homework help by UWinnipeg Education
students.
Map
of The University of Winnipeg Campus with highlighted areas
of interest
Map
of available parking close to The University of Winnipeg
Welcome to SpeciaLink's home on the world wide web. SpeciaLink's
goal is to expand the quality and quantity of opportunities
for inclusion in child care, recreation, education, and other
community settings, to young children with special needs and
their families.
A helpline, clearinghouse and virtual resource and research
centre, SpeciaLink provides personalized responses to specific
questions, referrals and links to other organizations, and sources
of help, information, and technical assistance including curriculum
development and program evaluation. We share SpeciaLink fact
sheets, books and videos, as well as training in your community
in partnership with community organizations. We maintain an
alert network of key inclusive child care advocates across the
country, who can quickly identify and respond to opportunities
and threats to inclusion quality and funding.
SpeciaLink is committed to action research that is informed
and shaped by practice, building from the experiences of real-world
child care with its limitations and its strengths. It connects
researchers and policymakers with inclusive practices on the
frontline. By identifying innovative practices, testing them,
and presenting them to the wider field and to policymakers,
SpeciaLink helps improve practice and inform policy.
Early childhood educators, inclusion facilitators, mentors,
resource teachers and consultants, policymakers, early interventionists,
therapists, parents, family child care providers, trainers,
researchers, policy makers, social justice advocates and students.
SpeciaLink-the National Centre for
Child Care Inclusion maintains a distinct separation between
advertising content and editorial content. Advertisers and sponsors
do not influence our selection or presentation of content anywhere
on the SpeciaLink website.
SpeciaLink-the National Centre for
Child Care Inclusion
University of Winnipeg, 2E22-515 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, MB,
R3B 2E9
Phone: (204) 258-2901 · Toll Free: 1-866-902-6333 ·
Fax: (204) 786-7803
info@specialinkcanada.org
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