Empowering Your Child to Fly: A Family's Guide to Early Childhood Inclusion

Every child belongs. Every child is unique. Every child has strengths. Every child has the potential to fly.

Whether your child has received a diagnosis or they are exhibiting behaviors that worry you, Empowering Your Child to Fly: A Family's Guide to Early Childhood Inclusion offers advice for navigating the early intervention and special education systems, from an educator who has experienced these systems as a child, as a parent, and as a professional.

• Understand screening, evaluation, and assessment.
• Discover helpful resources.
• Explore your role as an advocate for your child.
• Learn how to work with your team of specialists and educators.
• Discover strategies to identify your child's strengths and consider a future vision for your child.
• Explore ideas for creating learning spaces at home embedding learning into everyday routines.
• Discover how to do all of this while staying healthy and strong, with a sense of balance in your life.

Jani Kozlowski, MA, is a technical assistance specialist at the FPG Child Development Institute at UNC-Chapel Hill. She has served as the inclusion and professional development systems coordinator for the National Center on Early Childhood Development, Teaching, and Learning. She provided training and technical assistance for Head Start on inclusion and disability services and on social-emotional development for the Office of Head Start and co-authored the Head Start orientation guide for disability services coordinators.