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Dr. Katie Herron talks with Family Specialist, Marcie Beers about why having high expectations for children with disabilities is important. 

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Literacy begins long before a child reads their first word. In this illuminating conversation with early childhood expert Lynne Hall, we uncover the five foundational literacy skills every young child needs to develop before formal reading instruction begins.

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Dr. Katie Herron from the Early Childhood Center talks with Adria Nassim about her perspective on disability as it relates to early childhood.

Adria Nassim received a Batchelor of Arts in English and a minor in Spanish from Brescia University, a small Catholic liberal arts university in Owensboro, Kentucky in 2010. She is a research assistant (RA) at the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community.  Adria was diagnosed with multiple disabilities at birth and during childhood including cerebral palsy, a learning disability and an autism spectrum disorder in her mid-teen years. As part of her role at the Institute, she writes for the Indiana Resource Center for Autism's monthly newsletter where she shares her personal experiences of life with autism. She also gives guest lectures to college students around the Indiana University campus in which she discusses autism from both a clinical as well as a personal perspective. She writes a quarterly column on autism and developmental disability for Bloomington's Bloom Magazine, which was previously published in The Herald-Times, Bloomington's city newspaper, every other week for the past 5 years. When she is not working, she enjoys swimming, reading, and spending time with her service dog Thomas.

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In this episode Dr. Katie Herron and Lynne Hall from the Early Childhood Center at Indiana University talk about challenging behaviors and how to support children before those behaviors happen.

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Dr. Katie Herron and Lynne Hall from the Early Childhood Center talk about setting up your preschool classroom for suscess with clear communication, flexibility, and family engagement. They highlight the Suspension and Expulsion Prevention Checklist created by the Indiana Office of Early Childhood and Out of School Learning. It can be found here: https://www.in.gov/fssa/carefinder/files/IN_Suspension_-Expulsion_Checklist.pdf

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Dr. Katie Herron and Research Associate Lynne Hall continue their discussion about preschool suspension and expulsion.

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Dr. Katie Herron and Research Associate Lynne Hall talk about the frequency of suspension and expulsion in preschool and some of the reasons behind it. 

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Early Childhood Center Research Assistant, Kayla O'Neill, interviews Occupational Therapist Nancy Simmons on Mental Well Being in Early Intervention.

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Early Childhood Center Research Associate, Kayla O'Neill, interviews Developmental Therapist, Katherine Hargreaves about using the coaching model to deliver services to children in Indiana. Hargreaves has worked in both early intervention and/or Early Head Start in Maryland, Washington D.C., Virginia, Illinois, and Indiana. As part of the Indiana First Steps system, she has served as a developmental therapist, an Eligibility Determination Team member, a Local Planning and Coordinating Council member for Cluster G, and the early intervention services manager at Easterseals Crossroads in Indianapolis.

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Early Childhood Center Research Assistant, Kayla O'Neill, interviews Service Coordinator and Educational Resources Specialist, Charissa Darland on tips for working with families.