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The OSEP-funded Tracking, Referral and Assessment Center for Excellence (TRACE) at the Orelena Hawks Puckett Institute, in collaboration with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), developed an early intervention referral form that physicians and other primary referral sources can use to make a referral to Part C early intervention programs. The AAP recently included this form in a revised policy statement entitled The Role of the Medical Home in Family-Centered Early Intervention Services. The AAP has also developed a computerized version of the referral form.
The computerized version of the referral form is available at
http://www.medicalhomeinfo.org/health/EI.html
The policy statement is available at
http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/pediatrics;120/5/1153
Guidelines for early intervention programs wishing to custom the referral form can be found at
http://www.tracecenter.info/practiceguides/practiceguides_vol1_no2.pdf
A new CELLnote from the Center for Early Literacy Learning (CELL) entitled Children's Active Participation in Reading and Storytelling Can Enhance Early Literacy Learning by Carol Trivette and Carl Dunst is now available online at http://www.earlyliteracylearning.org/cellpapers/cellnotes_v1_n2.pdf. CELLnotes are non-technical, user-friendly summaries of practice-based research syntheses.
The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is seeking feedback on a draft revision of their Position Statement on Developmentally Appropriate Practice. The draft will be available for comment until March 28, 2008. To review the draft and submit feedback go to http://www.naeyc.org/about/positions/dap.asp
The U.S. Department of Education has reopened the pre-
application phase of the Early Reading First competition for all eligible applicants and extended the deadline date for
transmittal of full applications for fiscal year 2008.
The new deadline date for eligible applicants to
submit pre-applications is April 7, 2008
The new deadline date for the transmittal of
full applications is June 10, 2008
For complete information go to
http://www2.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/announcements/2008-1/030708a.html
The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) has published regional profiles that highlight early childhood policy and demographic data for the 10 regions defined by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The profiles show what states are doing in comparison to neighboring states, and supplement NCCP's state and national profiles. A companion User Guide explains the policies that appear in these profiles. For complete information go to http://www.nccp.org/projects/improvingtheodds_stateprofiles.html