Early Childhood Special Education and Assistive Technology Blog

Opportunities to learn more about the New Early Learning Standards are coming... Check out the following website  to see what trainings are available in your region.  Many resources exists for professionals and families.  A few in NH are: Early Learning New Hampshire (ELNH) http://www.earlylearningnh.org/ Spark NH http://sparknh.org/ New Hampshire Family Voices http://nhfv.org/ Parent Information Center NH (PIC) http://www.picnh.org/ NH Preschool Technical Assistance Network(PTAN) http://ptan.seresc.net/ Early Education and Intervention Network(eein) http://www.eeinnh.org/

Early childhood education is making some great gains and has even greater potential for funding and developing to enhance public access in 2014. Recently, I received an email from NAEYC Children’s Champions  in mid-January with the title: A Big Funding Win for Early Childhood – But We Need to Get it Passed by  January 18 !. According to NAEYC, the United States Congress needed to pass appropriation bills for the 2014 fiscal year, and with this came an omnibus ( proposed law covering diverse or unrelated topics from multiple agencies) bill. Within this bi-partisan bill was $1.5 billion increase for early childhood education, post-sequestration levels, investing in access and quality. Some of the highlights from the bill, from the NAEYC website , includes: $1.025 billion increase for Head Start – this includes $400 million for Head Start and another $100 million for COLA, $25 million for re-designation activities, and $500 million for the expansion of Early Head Start and ...