Introduction to Enrolment of children with developmental needs

1: Introduction to Enrolment of children with developmental needs (DN)

As an ICO, you are encouraged to work with your centre leader to establish centre processes for the child’s enrolment. You may not have to set up new processes as your centre may already have processes in place for general enrolment of children at your centre. You can add on to those existing workflows where relevant.

The objective of this preparation process for the centre is to ensure the preschool has a holistic understanding of the child – from people who know the child in other settings and have first hand information on the child’s behaviour and needs.

There are three recommended steps:

• 1) Request for background information of child – this can include medical report, information from EI professionals, caregivers’ observations of child
• 2) Conduct observation of child’s behaviour in preschool setting
• 3) Preparing for enrolment