Are developmentally appropriate practices comprehensive enough to ad-dress the individual needs of young children with disabilities?
The DAP guidelines endorse heterogeneous groupings and promote curriculum content that meets a wide range of abilities. ‘The curriculum is flexible so teachers can adapt to individual children or groups” (NAEYC & NAECS/SDE, 1991, p. 137). Within a DAP curriculum framework, children are allowed to work at different levels on different activities rather than being required to do the same thing at the same time as all other children. It seems that the individual appropriateness dimension of DAP allows for flexibility and adaptations to meet the needs of individual children.
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- Are developmentally appropriate practices comprehensive enough to ad-dress the individual needs of young children with disabilities?
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