Skills to Support Young Children with Special Needs
Professional Development and Parent Education
Educational Productions brings you
training videos that show and teach strategies to support
young children with special needs from birth to 8 years.
You will see adults working in child care,
pre-K, Head Start and K-2 classrooms where typically and
non-typically developing children are learning together.
The videos listed below are especially helpful for supporting children with atypical development because they teach adults to be good observers of what a child is doing at a particular moment in a particular context instead of what is expected at a particular age or stage. These videos are also widely used for parent education. Many are available in both English and Spanish.
First
Steps series
Supporting early language development
(in English or Spanish) Birth to three years
Four videos widely used in early intervention efforts for training staff and parents. These videos teach how to support language acquisition and model responsive, connected adult-child relationships that are the foundation for all development and learning.
Hand-in-Hand
series
Individualized teaching strategies to help every child succeed
Three to eight years
Seven videos show how to intentionally support cognitive, language and social-emotional development in a play-based learning environment. Helps increase observation skills and models how to intervene with children who are missing out on learning.
Three to eight years
A complete three-session training teaches how and why to use clear, positive language to help children to follow expectations and learn. Emphasizes strategies that assist both children with special needs and English language learners. CD-ROM teaches through video rich modeling, interactive exercises, reflection questions and action plans.
Engaging, instructive video clips, without narration, focus on non-typically developing toddlers and pre-K children. Shows how to gently support skill building, independence and social competence. The clips are ideal to enrich training, classes and online courses.

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