Friday, July 21, 2017

Friday Feature: Children from Immigrant or Refugee Families

FRIDAY FEATURE: Resources Within Reason from the Division for Early Childhood (DEC)'s Young Exceptional Children journal:

"Between 2000 and 2015, the number of children ages 17 and under with immigrant parents grew 36%, from 13.1 million to 17.9 million" (Blanchard et al., 2017, p. 1).
 
How many of you serve children from immigrant or refugee families in Early Intervention?
What are some of the challenges you experience?

 
Read this edition of Resources Within Reason to learn more about:
  • engaging parents who are immigrants
  • refugee families
  • immigration policy and its impact on children and families
See more from the Young Children in Immigrant Families document HERE.

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