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First Step Materials

Access Project Resources (Immigrant and Refugee)

● Speaker’s Bureau

● Opening Doors and Building Bridges: Stories from Immigrant and Refugee Families and Early
Childhood Special Education DVD order form

● Sharing Cultures through Lullabies DVD order form

● Interpreting within Early Childhood Special Education packet order form

● Discipline Game order form
Download the game here: [Full Version] [Simple Version] [Spanish version]

● An Adventure in Co-Learning: Immigrant and Refugee Parents and Early Childhood Professionals. Discussions on Child Protection, Child Development and Discipline. Access Café Manual.

Working with interpreters

● Card for interpreters : FRONT / BACK

● Early childhood special education process video
(This is an eight minute simple video explaining the early childhood special education process, for interpreters to watch prior to providing interpreting services in early childhood special education.)

BCBS Video

● Watch a video, made by the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of MN Foundation, about the Thrive Access Project. The goal of the Access Project is: Building relationships across cultures to expand access to resources and supports in the early intervention system for immigrant and refugee children ages birth to five and their families.