Inclusion of Children with Additional Needs

Do you have a child with additional needs in your service? If so, we would ask you to take 10-15 minutes to fill in a survey on your experiences of including him or her in your service.

Why?

The aim of the survey is to gather evidence that will support the improvement of access to quality early childhood care and education for children with additional needs. You may have seen our recent submission on the role of special needs assistants in early childhood care and education. Now, we want to take this work further. To support this aim, we are working to:

1. Identify challenges and barriers for parents and ECCE settings in relation to early childhood care and education for children with additional needs.
2. Determine effective models, strategies and best practice in ECCE settings that work for families and educators
3. Identify common trends in funding for supports for children with additional needs in early childhood settings, including parents’ role herein

So, please help us by completing our Educator Survey on Additional Needs.

To Pass on to Parents

We would also greatly appreciate if you could encourage parents in your setting who have young children, aged 0-6, with diagnosed or undiagnosed additional / special educational needs to complete our Parent Survey on Additional Needs.