The Inclusive Classroom Profile Manual: Research Edition

The ICP™ manual guides users on understanding, implementing, and scoring the ICP.

How well is your early childhood program implementing quality inclusive practices? Now there’s a comprehensive, field-tested observational tool that uncovers the answers. A one-of-a-kind tool for classrooms serving children ages 2–5, the Inclusive Classroom Profile (ICP™) assesses 12 key practices with the strongest research base for supporting the education and development of young children in inclusive programs:
•Adaptations of Space, Materials, and Equipment
•Adult Involvement in Peer Interactions
•Adults' Guidance of Children’s Free-Choice Activities and Play
•Conflict Resolution
•Membership
•Relationships between Adults and Children
•Support for Communication
•Adaptation of Group Activities
•Transitions between Activities
•Feedback
•Family-Professional Partnerships
•Monitoring Children's Learning

Benefits
The in-depth ICP™ evaluation process gives you the rich information and insights you need to:•assess your program’s current inclusive practices
•establish a baseline for measuring future progress
•apply recommended inclusive practices for young children
•guide quality improvement efforts by linking assessment data with instructional decision-making
•tailor professional development to teachers' specific needs

Elena P. Soukakou, D.Phil., is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at Roehampton University, London, United Kingdom. Dr. Soukakou earned her doctoral degree in Education from Oxford University, UK. She began her career as an early childhood special education teacher upon graduating from Teachers College, Columbia University. She has since worked for over 10 years as an early intervention specialist, researcher, and consultant for early childhood inclusion and special education in the United States, United Kingdom, and her home country, Greece. In 2013, she received the Distinguished Early Career Award of the Early Education and Child Development Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) for her work on the Inclusive Classroom Profile. Dr. Soukakou works collaboratively with early childhood educators, professionals, researchers, and leaders in the field to support the inclusion of young children with disabilities and their families in all aspects of early childhood education and care.

Samuel L. Odom, Ph.D., is the former Director of the Frank Porter Graham (FPG) Child Development Institute where he remains as a Senior Research Scientist. Prior to his work at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dr. Odom served in faculty positions at Indiana University and Peabody College/Vanderbilt University. Dr. Odom received a master's degree in special education in 1976 and an educational specialist degree in educational psychology from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 1979. He earned his doctorate in 1982 in education and human development from the University of Washington.

Throughout his career, Dr. Odom has held positions as a preschool teacher, student teaching supervisor, program coordinator, teacher educator, and researcher. Dr. Odom's research interests include interventions and teaching approaches that promote social competence of young children, effective intervention approaches for children with autism, and early childhood curricula that promote children's school success. He is the author or co-author of over 175 journal articles and book chapters and has edited 10 books on early childhood intervention and developmental disabilities. His current research is addressing treatment efficacy for children and youth with ASD in elementary and high school grades. Also, he is the Co-Director of the National Clearinghouse on Autism Evidence and Practice at FPG. Dr. Odom is an associate editor for Exceptional Children and is on the editorial board of Journal of Early Intervention, Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disabilities, and Early Childhood Research Quarterly. He received the Special Education Outstanding Research Award from the American Educational Research Association Special Education Special Interest Group in 1999, the Merle Karnes Contribution to the Field Award from the Division for Early Childhood of the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) in 2001, and the Outstanding Special Education Research Award from CEC in 2007. In 2013, he received the Arnold Lucius Gesell Prize awarded for career achievement in research on social inclusion and child development from the Theordor Hellbrugge Foundation in Munich, Germany. In 2016, he received an honorary doctoral degree from Stockholm University. He is currently a visiting professor at Stockholm University and San Diego State University.