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Assessment, Evaluation, and Programming System (AEPS(TM)) for Infants and Children, Second Edition. Diane Bricker (Ed.), Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes, 2002.
Complete AEPS (2nd ed.): Administration Guide (336 pp.), Test for Birth to Three Years and Three to Six Years (304 pp.), Curriculum for Birth to Three Years (512 pp.), and Curriculum for Three to Six Years (352 pp.), $205.00
A comprehensive book for every cook-aspiring and experienced-who longs for simple recipes that yield delicious food. It is for first-time cooks who want to learn the basics of good cooking from a reliable, contemporary source. It is for cooks who are time-pressed and need to get healthful meals on the table with a minimum of fuss. It is for old pros who yearn to brighten their repertoires with interactive recipes and tempting flavors (Bittman, 1998, inside cover).
As you read through the above quotation from one of my favorite cookbooks, How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food, simply replace the cooking concepts with teaching and learning concepts for young children, and you have an outstanding description of what the AEPS series has to offer. This is a comprehensive, curriculum-embedded assessment system for every educator of infants and young children-aspiring and experienced-who longs for simple, straightforward, and functional strategies that yield educational targets individualized for each child's needs and a process for monitoring success of interventions and involving families in meaningful ways. The AEPS is for first-time educators who want to learn the basics of good activity-based assessment and intervention from a reliable, research-based source. It is for educators who are pressed for time and need to get comprehensive, functional, and individualized education plans in place in a timely fashion. It is for old pros who yearn to brighten their repertoires with interactive activities and refresh their knowledge of functional and meaningful developmental milestones in six key areas-fine motor, gross motor, cognitive, adaptive, social communication, and social.
As a faculty member in early childhood special education (ECSE) at the University of...