Abstract
This chapter is written for concerned parents and professionals who wish to improve the availability and quality of services for children from birth to age six by using strategies or approaches commonly known as advocacy. In this chapter, advocacy is defined, an ideology or framework of beliefs and values is proposed, and a variety of advocacy approaches and activities are described. At the outset it is noted that advocacy approaches specifically designed for infants and children during early childhood are almost non-existent. For this reason, recommendations relating to infants and young children draw heavily on advocacy experience gained with adults and school-age children.
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Neufeld, G.R. (1991). Advocacy: Applications in the Early Years of Children. In: Mitchell, D.M., Brown, R.I. (eds) Early Intervention Studies for Young Children with Special Needs. Rehabilitation Education. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3292-1_2
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