This handbook discusses early childhood special education (ECSE) with particular focus on
evidence-based practices. Coverage spans core intervention areas in ECSE such as literacy
motor skills and social development as well as diverse contexts for services including
speech-language pathology physical therapy and pediatrics. Contributors offer strategies for
planning implementing modifying and adapting interventions to help young learners extend
their benefits into the higher grades. Concluding chapters emphasize the importance of research
in driving evidence-based practices (EBP). Topics featured in the Handbook include:
Family-centered practices in early childhood intervention. The application of Response to
Intervention (RtI) in young children with identified disabilities. Motor skills acquisition for
young children with disabilities. Implementing evidence-based practices in ECSE classrooms. ·
Cultural ethnic and linguistic implications for ECSE. The Handbook of Early Childhood Special
Education is a must-have resource for researchers professors upper-level undergraduate and
graduate students clinicians and practitioners across such disciplines as child and school
psychology early childhood education clinical social work speech and physical therapy
developmental psychology behavior therapy and public health.
