Graduate Education | Early Childhood Special Education Approval

Enhance your instruction and assessment skills	Discover more about students who face additional challenges to learning
Growing demand for early childhood special educators	Work with children at the start of their educational journey

The Illinois State Board of Education allows teachers who hold an Illinois license endorsed in early childhood self-contained general education or LBS I (PreK-age 22) to earn an approval in Early Childhood Special Education that allows them to teach children with disabilities in preschool.

Program Highlights

Early childhood special education approval on your Professional Educator License (PEL) to teach children with disabilities in preschool
ISBE approved courses
Ability to plan, deliver instruction and assess learning
Experience support to acquire familiarity with family support programs, service delivery models and language and literacy development

Students will obtain:

Knowledge of disabilities and student differences
Ways to differentiate instruction and help young children grow and develop
Capacity to ascertain best practices based on individual differences among students
Instructional strategies for effective instruction for all students
Skills for working effectively with families of young children with disabilities
Strategies for stimulating language and literacy development
Means of assessing young children and environments that serve young children