INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARLY
CHILDHOOD SPECIAL EDUCATION (INT-JECSE)
Volume 1, Number
2, December 2009
From the Editor,
With support and contributions of early
childhood special education professionals around
the world, I am again glad to share with you the
second issue of International Journal of Early
Childhood Special Education (INT-JECSE).
Starting with the first issue, the
INT-JECSE has been
recognized and is currently being indexed,
abstracted, and listed in AERA SIG Communication
of Research, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ),
EBSCO Education Research Complete (ERC), Index
Copernicus, The e-Journal Gateway (J-Gate),
New-Jour (Electronic Journals & Newsletters,
and Open J-Gate. With your contributions, the INT-JECSE will be indexed in
major journal indexes soon.
The
second issue includes five articles and one book
review. The first article is written by
Sandberg, Norling, and Lillvist. They
explore how preschool teachers experience the
educational support for children in need of
special support. In this qualitative study, they
have found that the preschool teachers emphasize
educational support to children in need of
special support from two perspectives. The
second article reports a study of teaching
toileting skills to children with autism. It was
carried out by Kırcaali-İftar, Ülke-Kürkçüoğlu,
Çetin, and Ünlü. They used an intensive toilet
training program developed by the authors based
on the scientifically supported principles of
applied behavior analysis (ABA) to teach two 5-
and 3-year old boys with autism to stay accident
free between scheduled toilet visits. They have
found that the intensive daytime toilet training
program was successful for targeted children
with autism. Dr. Pretis, a consultant of early
childhood special education, describes and
discusses early childhood intervention in
Austria in the third article. He overviews of 30
years of development and future challenges in
early childhood intervention in Austria. Dr.
Rondal in the fourth article of the INT-JECSE
reviews the literature on spoken language in
persons with Down Syndrome. He provides with
this article a life-span perspective on spoken
language in persons with Down Syndrome. In the
fifth article entitled planning a comprehensive
program for young children with autism spectrum
disorders (ASD), Smith Myles,. Grossman, Aspy,
&. Henry outlines two compatible models for
planning and implementing programs for students
with ASD. The Ziggurat Model and Comprehensive
Autism Planning System (CAPS) are being
described with a brief case study. In the last
article Güldenoğlu review a book entitled “The
Program Administrator's Guide To Early
Childhood Special Education” written by Janen
McCracken Taylor, James R. McGowan, and Toni
Linder and published by Paul H. Brookes
Publishing Co. in 2009.
By
looking forward to receiving contributions of
professionals of Early Childhood Special
Education around the world, I do appreciate very
much those who contributed in the second issue
and those who will contribute in the future
issues.
Looking forward to meeting you again in June
2010...
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