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Educational Programs That Work - 1995

Early Recognition Intervention Network (ERIN)

Early Recognition Intervention Network (ERIN). A curriculum/ assessment program for teachers, coordinators, and parents to assist young children with special needs in regular and special education settings. Approved by JDRP for children ages 3-7 with mild to severe disabilities in mainstream or special settings, programs for regular and special teachers, program coordinators, and parents.

Description The Early Recognition Intervention Network (ERIN) system is used in both special preschool classroom/home programs serving children with moderate to severe special needs and in regular early childhood (nursery, Head Start, day care) and primary (K-1) programs serving mainstreamed mild to moderate special needs children integrated with their peers. When adopting, each teacher implements a program of observation and curriculum modification for children with special needs. A local coordinator is trained to take over local training and monitoring of the program. The ERIN training program for adults (special or regular teachers and coordinators) provides the equivalent of three to six college credits through attendance at a 5-day Institute and on-site consultation by ERIN staff. A coordinated parent program for both special and mainstream children is optional. The teaching adult makes materials and organizes his/her own learning environment to facilitate participation (social-emotional-affective), body awareness and control, visual-perceptual-motor, and language skills. Depending on the age of the child, these are organized into self-help, developmental concept, and academic readiness content areas. Initially, the curriculum approach focuses on general classroom/ home modifications of the physical space and daily time units, learning materials and their organization into learning sequences, the grouping of children, and teacher cuing/monitoring. This is followed by the teaching of specific skills to subgroups and/or individual children by the teacher, parent, or volunteer, with much greater intensity in specialized programs. The child's Individual Education Program is implemented in large and small groups and individually.

Contact
Peter and Marian Hainsworth, Co-Directors, ERIN, Inc., P.O. Box 637, Carlisle, MA 01741. (508) 287-0920.

Developmental Funding: None.
JDRP No. 78-186 (7/13/78)
Recertified (12/84)


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