Article addressed to preschool teachers, day care workers and Head Start personnel, who are called upon more and more often every day to help identify potential handicaps in the young children they serve. (Authors)

The review of teaching strategies examines four areas of potential ecological impact on effective learning in young children--methods for curriculum organization, antecedent instructional events, consequent instructional events, and packages or combinations of instructional events. Four methods of curriculum organization are explained including…

If preschool teachers are to plan for each child on the basis of his or her needs, they must engage in several basic program adaptation procedures. They must know how to assess each child's individual skill levels in each area of development. They must also understand task analysis and be able to specify learning objectives for each child.…