SpeciaLink puts researchers, policy makers, parents, early childhood educators and directors in touch with the best inclusive practices on the frontlines of Canadian child care. 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. Our findings are available to EVERYONE.

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The SpeciaLink Early Childhood Inclusion Quality Scale (2009)

SpeciaLink is proud to introduce the expanded version of the SpeciaLink Early Childhood Inclusion Quality Scale, successor to the 2005 SpeciaLink Practices and Principles workshop version. The SpeciaLink Early Childhood Inclusion Quality Scale is a tool for assessing inclusion quality in early childhood centres and for helping centres move toward higher quality inclusion.

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If you have not yet taken part in our inclusion training, please visit SpeciaLink on the Road, to find out where we are offering training next.

Disability and Inclusion: changing attitudes-changing policy

This chapter appears in the recently published Beyond Child’s Play: Caring for and educating young children in Canada  Our Schools/ Our Selves, Spring 2009 (vol. 18, no. 3, #95) published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Ottawa.

As we move towards the end of the first decade of the 21 st century, Canadian families continue to be stymied by the lack of a national early learning and care system, and policy makers continue to be confounded by the concept of a “rights based” rationale for children’s entitlement to early learning services separate from their parents employment status. Read more...

"Respite Care Workshop: How to have fun in the community!"
 Safeguards: The Respite Learning Portal
Panel of presenters:

• Debra Mayer, MA, Director for SpeciaLink - the National Centre for Child Care Inclusion
• Ed Mahony, Special Education Resource Teacher in Hamilton.

Featured Discussion:

• How to search out activities and opportunities in your community.
• How to support the child/individual to be included in the community.
• How to help them get invited to activities.
• How to assist them to sustain interaction.
• How to deal with conflict.
• Addressing barriers to inclusion.

View Recording of webinar

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If you have not yet taken part in our inclusion training, please visit SpeciaLink on the Road, to find out where we are offering training next.

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