Head Start

Children with disabilities can be included in all classroom activities with the support of teachers and peers. As this video demonstrates, interacting with materials and with others creates a rich learning environment for everyone. Some strategies assure positive experiences, such as:

• Sensory activities: this Jello activity allows for touch, smell, and taste.
• Group table activity with two teachers: configuring the lesson in this way allows a lot of peer and teacher interaction that is child centered and well managed.
• Verbal prompts: the teachers suggest, “touch it.”
• Simple questions and positive feedback to answers: the teacher asks, “Is it hot?” After a slight wait time, the teacher answers, “cold” in response to the children.