ECE 495 – CAPSTONE PROJECT DRAFT PROPOSAL

Name: Antonela Saenz

Proposed Topic: Educating toddlers and infants having learning disability

Overview: I came about this topic because in my teaching profession, I am passionate about helping children with learning disability. Most often than not as educators at times we disregard this area and in order for these children to excel later in life then the foundation which is early education is quite important. The idea for this project is to understand and know more about children with disability and getting to know on how to manage children with disability. Although babies grow and develop at different rates, most follow a predictable path and learn to walk, talk, and gain new skills in expected ways. For those infants and toddlers with a disability or developmental delay, intervening early can make all the difference in the world. 

Goal: My goal is to better understand our children that have learning disability and how we can show them that everything will be just fine and they’re just like anyone else but in a special way. There is need for educators to have a better understanding on how to help the children with learning disabilities and I believe that my project will be an opener into getting a better insight. I want our children to have TLC tender love and care wherever they go no matter how they’re categorized as different. I want people to also know that these children are our future and because of their disability that doesn’t change them who they are. The

Objectives: In order to complete my project, I will have to undertake the following:

Develop a guide that will help the families and caregivers to recognize, understand, and accept the child’s problems and how they can help them learn.

Meet with parents and other educators in order to evaluate as well as select programs that meet the child’s individual’s needs

Come up with five interventions that may be used by educators in improving the learning abilities of these children

Evaluate the proposed evaluations in order to determine if it will help improve the learning abilities or not.

Production Activities: The following activities will help me in the completion of my project.

Write the extent of the current challenges being experienced when it comes to helping children with learning disabilities (8-10 pages).

Write a literature review on the current situation when it comes to helping children with learning disabilities in the early childhood education stage (15-20 pages).

Come up with a plan on the intervention that have been proposed (2-4 pages)

Implement the plan and then create a report on whether the plan did work out. The report will include a comprehensive narrative including impact on how the intervention helped the parents, educators as well as the children. These children are still young thus the caregivers mostly parent and teachers will be in a better position to highlight the impacts of the intervention (5 pages)

Evaluation: To determine the success of this project, I will complete the project evaluation form.