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A child with special needs will flourish and benefit from an early childhood environment that empowers learning. Center learning empowers a child to be actively engaged in self-directed learning based on strength, ability, and interest. Center learning can enhance interactive language, story response, art, reading and writing-like behavior, collaboration, buddy activity, and independence. All of these empowering areas of development are strongly related to the child's emergent literacy development. The variety of center learning experiences is limited only by the imagination; this article provides a selection of start-up ideas for the early childhood educator.
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Genisio, M., Drecktrah, M. Emergent Literacy in an Early Childhood Classroom: Center Learning to Support the Child with Special Needs. Early Childhood Education Journal 26, 225–231 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022911605995
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