Program Map

Early Childhood Intervention Assistant - Certificate of Achievement

Award Type: Certificate of Achievement
Effective Date: Fall 2019
Learning and Career Pathway
  • Social Sciences, Humanities & Education

This program map from the 2024-2025 catalog year represents one possible pathway to complete this program. Your pathway may vary depending on your transfer plans and also previous college credit, including AP Test scores, concurrent enrollment courses and high school articulated courses.

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  1. Review this program map to get an overview of the required courses
  2. Meet with a counselor to develop your customized student education plan www.chabotcollege.edu/counseling
  3. Use DegreeWorks, an online student education planning tool, to track your progress toward graduation www.chabotcollege.edu/admissions/degreeworks
Description:

This certificate gives students interested in providing inclusive services to all children a foundation of understanding and skills for working with children with special needs. You will get the opportunity to participate in fieldwork experiences where you can apply learned theoretical models and early intervention methods in inclusive educational settings as well as special day classes that serve young children with disabilities.

What can I do with this Major?
Certificate completers will meet requirements to be an Assistant or Associate teacher in a wide-variety of public, private and faith-based child care settings, including infant and toddler sites. Students who earn this certificate will fulfill Community Care Licensing requirements to be a preschool teacher of young children. They will also meet the coursework requirements for the Associate Teacher California Child Development Permit. Students will also be qualified to work as aides and paraprofessionals in elementary school special day classes and in inclusive classrooms. Labor market information points to a large number of openings in special education. Students can earn this certificate, begin working in the field, and continue to work towards the AA degree in Early Childhood Intervention.

Critical Course Prerequisite for Other Courses Prerequisite Required Required for Major GE General Education

Semester 1
 
6 units
ECD 50
Early Childhood Principles and Practices (Active)
3.0
ECD 56
Child Growth and Development (Active)
3.0
Semester 2
 
10 units
ECD 54
Child Health, Safety and Nutrition (Active)
3.0
ECD 62
Child, Family and Community (Active)
3.0
ECD 63
Early Childhood Curriculum (Active)
4.0
Semester 3
 
10 units
ECD 60
Introduction to the Young Child With Exceptional Needs (Active)
3.0
ECD 67
Infant and Toddler Development and Caregiving (Active)
3.0
ECD 90
Practicum: Supervised Experience (Active)
4.0
Semester 4
 
3 units
ECD 91
Adaptive Curriculum for Children With Exceptional Needs (Active)
3.0

ECD 91 is offered every third semester; students are urged to take it in the first available semester after filling prerequisites.

Total Units: 29.0
This program map is not a guarantee of course availability or financial aid applicability.