The Exceptional Child: Inclusion in Early Childhood Education

Review

"[This is] a great book to consider for an undergraduate level intro class. It provides an overview of typical and atypical development with strategies to support individual learning in an inclusive environment.""This is an excellent text for teaching ECSE. It is up-to-date and student friendly."

About the Author

Eileen K. Allen, professor emerita, University of Kansas, spent 30 years as a professor of child development and early childhood education at the University of Washington in Seattle and the University of Kansas at Lawrence. Throughout her career, Professor Allen was active in national and international organizations focused on the development of young children and their families, including the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), the Commission on Early Childhood Teacher Education, the Council for Exceptional Children and the National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators (NAECTE).Glynnis Edwards Cowdery has more than 25 years of experience in the early childhood education field as a teacher, program director and inclusion facilitator.