DEI in EI – Outside The Box

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in Early Intervention – Service Provision Part 1

In the last two posts, I’ve discussed my concerns about how eligibility is determined in early intervention. There are multiple issues – from the overreliance on outdated protocols that are not appropriate for children growing up in culturally and linguistically diverse environments to procedures that rely on (at best) shaky statistical methods to arrive atContinueContinue reading “Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in Early Intervention – Service Provision Part 1”

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Early Education – Determining Eligibility Part 2

Image courtesy of Pixabay.com Last week, I wrote about the problems with the evaluation tools used to determine eligibility in early intervention. The full post is here. But, the highlights are: 1) the primary protocol used is more than 10 years old, the secondary protocol is 8 years old; 2) the primary protocol does notContinueContinue reading “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Early Education – Determining Eligibility Part 2”