After reading this chapter, you will be able to

• Define evidence-based practice as it applies to modifying intervention and instructional practices when working with children with delays or disabilities
• Identify the CONNECT Modules: 5-Step Learning Cycle procedure used to assist early childhood special educators with finding solutions to realistic dilemmas encountered in providing intervention to young children with delays or disabilities
• Describe intervention strategies that facilitate inclusion of young children with delays or disabilities in natural, center-based, and school settings
• Identify teacher-mediated strategies that focus on active engagement and differing levels of participation of young children with delays or disabilities
• Provide examples of each of the following: arranging the environment, promoting acceptance, using of prompts and praise, and monitoring communication
• Identify peer-mediated strategies, including cooperative learning
• Describe routine-based, play-based, activity-based, and specific milieu strategies used to provide intervention or instruction for young children with delays or disabilities from birth through age eight