Early Childhood Care and Education Research Journal
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Monthly Newsletters on a Child with a Disability : A Day-Care Center's Effort in Facilitating Early Childhood Mainstreaming
Yasuko Sugita
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2010 Volume 48 Issue 2 Pages 133-144

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On the subject of bringing up children with disabilities in day-care centers, most students and practitioners have focused on support for the children and their parents. Almost equally important is trying to help others in the day-care center environment to shed their prejudice against disabilities. This paper introduces a day-care center nurse who circulated a monthly newsletter on a child with a disability and his interactions with other children. The readers, her colleagues and parents of children without disabilities, began to develop a new perspective on the richness of the interaction among the children in the integrated day-care center. Conveying the significance of early childhood mainstreaming to the readers would be an important next step, which could hopefully result in the readers' greater sensitivities for, and wider interactions with people with disabilities.
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