DOCUMENT RESUME ED 361 957 EC 302 427 AUTHOR Holden, Leah; And Others TITLE Wilting Integration: A Technical Assistance Guideon Integrated Early Childhood Programs. The Early Integration Training Project. INSTITUTION Ohio State Univ., Columbus. Center for Special Needs Populations. SPONS AGENCY Special Education Programs (ED/OSERS), Washington, DC. Early Education Program for Children with Disabilities. PUB DATE 93 CONTRACT 24P90004 NOTE 118p. AVAILABLE FROMNCHRTM-Special Education, Oklahoma State University, 816 West 6th St., Stillwater, OK 74078-0435 ($11.25, including postage and handling). PUB TYPE Guides Non-Classroom Use (055) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC05 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Change Strategies; Classroom Environment; Conflict Resolution; *Disabilities; Early Childhood Education; Early Intervention; Educational Change; *Edutzational Practices; Family Involvement; Handicrafts; Leadership; *Mainstreaming; Normalization (Handicapped); *Program Development; *Social Integration; Student Characteristics; Teamwork; Technical Assistance IDENTIFIERS *Quilting ABSTRACT This guide was developed to help people meet the challenge of developing early childhoodprograms that are inclusive of all children, regardless of disability. The manualwas written in the spirit of a quilting book, in its recognition of the importance of the quiltmaker's (and the program developer's)own adaptations, creativity, and inspiration. Quotations from quilting booksand illustrations of popular quilting patternsare included in the margin notes. The manual was assembled from conversations withpeople in Ohio who have created inclusive environments, and thetext is primarily excerpts from those conversations. Conceptscovered include the meaning of integration, strategies related to integration, characteristics of children with disabilities, developmentally appropriate practices, management of the classroomenvironment, the philosophy of a family-centered approach, collaboration,changes in approaches to serving young children with disabilitiesand their families, leadership, conflict resolution techniques,and problem solving strategies. Its chapters have the followingtitles: "Designing the Pattern: The Idea of Integration," "Preparingthe Fabric: Children," "Piecing the Quilt Tops: Families,""Assembling the Layers: Collaboration," "Stitching along New Lines: Change," "Binding the Edges: Leadership," "Smoothing Outthe Wrinkles: Conflict Resolution," and "Tying Up Loose Threads: Solutions." (References accompany each chapter.) (JDD) U.S. DEPARTMENT Of EDUCATION Ofhce of Educational Reeeerch and improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) eh.* document has bean reproduced as received from the person or organization originating a t- 0 Minor changes hew been made to improve 11) reproduchon Quality Points of **swot opinions stated in this docu- 1-4 ment do not necesaardy rePreetnt ofhclal 0E141 positoon or poiicy -- 4444 :2eo4A, BEST COPY AVAILABli QUILTING INTEGRATION: A TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE GUIDE ON INTEGRATED EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMS Leah Holden Maria Kaiser Dennis Sykes Plonda Tyreee The Arc of Ohio The Achievement lte Ohio State University De Ohio State University for Children A Publication of: The Early Integration Training Project Center for Special Needs Populations The Ohio State University 700 Ackerman Road, Suite 440 Columbus, Ohio 43202 (614) 4470844 Larry A. Magliocca, PhD., Principal Investigator , layout and Design: Mat Moore, David Bird and Yvonne Janson Addhood EcItaki Assistance Mary Anketell Adlitiond copies of this pubkation and other EITP materials are available from NCHRTM-Special Educalion, Oklahcma State Univarsity. Contact 1-800-223-5219 fa further information. Be development and dssemination of this wabsts supported by the U. S. Department of Education, Office d Special Educabon Program; Ealy Education Progam fa Children with Disabgities by Grant No. 24P90004 awarded to The Ohio State Uriversity. The materials contained herein do not neceserily reflect the position or poky of the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Specid Education Procrams, and no official endorsement should be inferred Cover: 'Stars of the States. featuring -The Ohio Sta. C 1993 The Ohio State University Research Foundation tr } ReereriCeS On QUiltiftg ill Forward IC v Cbapter 1Introduction W 1 Chapter 2Designing the Pattem The Idea cf Integration W 19 Cbapter 3Preparing the Fabric Cirildren le 31 Chapter 4Piecing the Quilt Tops: Families W 51 Cbapter 5 Auembling tbe Layers: Collaboration W 63 Cbapter 6Stitching Along New Lbws: Cbange 'if 81 Cbapter 7Binding the Edges: Leadersbip I' 95 Chapter 8Smoothing Out tbe Wrinkles: Conflict Resolution W 105 Chapter 9Tying up Loose Threads: Solutions W 117 iv The Early Integration Training Project R4feretsces OnQtaing Bacon, Lenice Ingram. (1972). American Patchwork Quits. New Yodc: Bonanza Books. Brown, Elsa. (1975) CrratiyeSiiiritig. New York: Watson-GugAll. Dittman, Margaret (1991). Fourteen Easy Baby Quilts.Radnor, PA.: Chilton Book Company. Echols, Margit. (1987). ii..Egic,b2at christmaa. New York Sedgewood Press. Gobes, Sarah Doolan and Lawler, Mickey and Meyer, and Robbins, Judy. (1992). j'ict Just Another Quilt. Cincinnati: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. Hechtlinger, Adelaide. (1974). ALLICACADAIIIICLQuiliing.andPatchmaak. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books. Ickis, marguerite. (1949). 112c_Standardikdualiiltittakingand Collecting. New York: Dover Publications, Inc. Laury, Jean Ray. (1970). Quilts and Covelets: A Contemporary Approach. Cincinnati: Van Normand Reinhold Company. Linsley, Leslie. (1990). A Quitter's Country Chrictma. New York: St. Martin Press. Morse, Sidney. (1980). rousehold Discoveries. Quoted in Hechtlinger. Nelson, Cyril I., and Houck, Carter. (1982). New York: Greenwich House. Staub-Wachsmuth, Brigitte. (1988). Harrisburg, PA Stackpole Books. Forward v Take a variety of fabrics: velvet, satin, silk, cotton, muslin, linen, tweed, men's shirting; mix with a variety of notions: buttons, lace, grosgrain, or thick silk ribbon lithographed with city scenes, bits of drapery, appliques of flora and fauna, honeymoon cottages and clouds. Puff them up with down, kapok, soft cotton, foam, old stockings. lay between the back doth a large expanse of cotton batting; stitch it all together with silk thread, embroidery thread, nylon thread. TVe stitches must be small, consistent, and reflect a design of their own. The inexperienced eye will be impressed by tbe use of color, design, appliqu4 andpattern, but the quitter will bold tbe work between ber . fingers and examine tbe stitcbes. Or sbe will lay out tbe quilt and analyze the overakpauern the stitches follow. The quilting can resemble birds andfiouers and beans afire andfieurs de bs. It can look like anything.... Whitney Otto. 1992. How to Make an American Quilt A Novel. Boston: G.K. Hall and Co. Pages 270-71. I believe that our aesthetic sense, whether in works of art or in lives, bas overfocused on tbe stubborn stnale toward a single goal rather than on the fluid, the protean, tbe improvisatory. We see acbievement as pwposeful and monolithic, like tbe sculpting of a massive tree trunk that bas first to be brougbt from the forest and then shaped by long labor to assert tbe anistt vision, rather than sometbing craft& from odds and ends, like a patchwork quilt, and lovingly used to warm different rgghts and bodies. Mary Catherine Bateson. 1990. Composing a Life. Plume/Penguin. vi The Early Integration Training Project "Did you ever think child" sbe said poen*, 'bow much piecin' a quilt's like livin' a life? And as for sermons, why, they aint no better sermon to me tban a patcbwork quilt, and tbe doctrines is right there a beapplainertithey are in the catechism... You see, you start out with Jest so mucb calikr you don't go to the store and pick it out and buy t4 but the ne(gbborsI I give you a piece bere and a piece tbere, and you'll bave a piece left evety time you cut out a thins, and you take jest wbat bappens to come. And that's like predestination. But wben it comes to tbe cuttin' ou4 wby, you're free to cboose your own pattern. You can give tbe same kind of pieces to two persons, and onell mal a a nine-patcb and onell mal r a wild-goose cbase, and tber'll be tuo quilts made out o' tbe same kind o' pieces and jest as deem:int as tbey can be. And that is jest tbe way with The Lord sends us the pieces but w e can cut 'ern out and put 'em togetber pretty mucb to suit ourselves, and there's a heap more in the cuttin' out and the sewin' tban there is in tbe caliker." From AuntJane of Kentucky (1898) by Eliza Calvert Hall, in Adelaide Hechtlinger, American Quilts, Quilting and Patchwork (1974) Harrisburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books. 7 Chap ter 1: Introduction 1 chapter 1 Introduction Chapter.1: Introduction 3 For the past three years the Early Integration Training Project (ETIP) has been offering information and resources to parents, teachers and administrators around Ohio who are concerned about young children. At the same time Ern) trainers have been learning about how to make early childhood programs that are inclusive of all children, regardless of disability, from the people who are doing just that Many participants in the fifteen-hour training series have told us that they want to know more: more about how to do it, more practical ideas for integrated early childhood programs. Early childhood personnel and parents of young children with disabilities often feel as though they are having to solve problem for the first time, sometimes because they are, and sometimes