How to Make It Work in Your Community

Step One: Know your resources.

Locate and contact the following professionals in your community.

Special Education Directors
Educational Service Centers
Child Find
Early Impact Team
Clinics, Pediatricians, health providers
Early Childhood Intervention agencies
Head Start and child care centers

Step two: Develop, create and distribute educational and outreach materials.

Brochures
Posters

Step three: Build alliances, identify a team

Step four: Learn about the Play Based Assessment model.

Education Service Center www.tea.state.tx.us/ESC/index.html
National Association of School Psychologists www.nasponline.org
Linder, T.W. (1993) Transdisciplinary play-based assessment: a functional approach to working with young children (revised edition). Baltimore, MD: Brookes Publishing Co.
Linder, T.W. (1993) Transdisciplinary play-based intervention: guidelines for developing a meaningful curriculum for young children. Baltimore, MD: Brookes Publishing Co

Step five: Contact.

Showcase of Promising Practices 2003
Del Valle I.S.D.
Faye Rozmaryn
frozmaryn@del-valle.k12.tx.us
5301 Ross Road. Ste. 106
Del Valle Texas 78617
(512) 386-3088