Seattle Children’s PlayGarden Online Inclusion Learning Hub
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Seattle PlayGarden’s Online Inclusion Learning Hub.
The goal of the learning hub is to be a place where people in the community such as parents or other youth-care providers can come and learn about inclusion by downloading and reading our inclusion toolkit, interacting with our blog, exploring the lessons on inclusion, stories on inclusion, or by visiting the resource library, signing up for a workshop or training In the learning hub you can also download or purchase the two books written by the PlayGarden:
- Say “Yes” to Kids with Disabilities: Stories and Strategies for Including All Kids. In 2017-2018, the Seattle Children’s PlayGarden partnered with King County Public Health’s Best Start for Kids Initiative to research the topic of inclusion of kids with disabilities in our community and share what we learned. Our goal is simple: to help other organizations and community members feel empowered to Say “Yes” to kids with disabilities in their programs and to reduce the stigma and exclusion that people with disabilities face in our society.
- Inclusive Preschool Through the Seasons: Lessons and Stories from 10 Years of Nature-Based Preschool. At the Seattle Children’s PlayGarden, we follow the seasons and celebrate the natural world. This book is divided into monthly lesson plans with songs, books, art explorations, special topics, and monthly newsletters that make up our fully inclusive, nature-based curriculum. You will learn from real students, real parents and teachers in a nature-based setting
- You can also visit our YouTube channel and explore the different playlists to see more examples of the types of activities we do with the kids in our preschool, summer camp and young adult programs.
Access their toolkit and discover more resources on inclusion here!