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Promoting Friendships for Preschool Children with Special Needs

The role of friendship in preschool children with special needs. 
NYU Child Study Center 
www.aboutourkids.org/articles/promoting_friendships_preschool_children_special_needs 

Including Young Children with Special Needs

This articles touches on issues of inclusion. 
New Horizons for Learning 
www.newhorizons.org/spneeds/inclusion/information/schwartz3.htm 

Adapting Story-Time to Engage the Child with Special Needs

List of modifications that might be made to a classroom story time. 
Washington Research Institute 
www.wri-edu.org/literacy/pdf/StorytimeRev.pdf 

The Special Needs of Teachers of Special Needs Children

More and more, special needs children are entering early childhood education programs. But the integration of special needs children into the regular classroom - and their acceptance by their nonhandicapped peers - continues to be a concern of both parents and teachers. Many of the proposed benefits of mainstreaming are based upon opportunities for interactions between special needs children and their nonhandicapped peers. 
SpingerLink 
www.springerlink.com/content/u2l4j153118n3t11/fulltext.pdf