South Carolina Partnerships for Inclusion is offering a FREE afternoon preconference session at the 2020 Annual SCCEC Conference.

Come explore the use of the Pyramid Model to support young learners who are deaf-blind. You’ll learn about the Pyramid Model, a framework of evidence-based practices for promoting young children’s social and emotional development, and how Statewide Deaf-Blind Projects are involved in this work. You’ll hear from various local partners supporting the implementation of Pyramid Model practices—Dr. Jenny May, SC Department of Education; Kerri Kannengieser, SC Partnerships for Inclusion; and Robert Hill, SC School for the Deaf and the Blind. You’ll also hear from Dr. Jennifer Grisham-Brown, Professor in the Interdisciplinary Early Childhood Education program and faculty director of the Early Childhood Laboratory School at the University of Kentucky, a strong advocate for blended programs in early childhood education and the inclusion of children with significant disabilities. Additionally, you'll learn about how Dr. Donna Carpenter, Project Coordinator for the Kentucky Deaf-Blind Project, has infused web-coaching to provide intensive TA for young learners who are deaf-blind. You’ll leave with a toolbox of strategies to enhance the social and emotional competencies, and meet the unique needs, of young children who have combined vision and hearing losses.

**Child care training credit available!!**