The IECSS Project was selected in the shortlist for the Inclusive Health Research Awards! Read more about it here.
The Inclusive Early Childhood Service System Project (IECSS) is a study that aims to understand disability in early childhood from the perspective of families.
Most Recent Publications
Underwood, K. (2024). Inclusive Early Childhood Service System project (IECSS) (Version 1). Nature Awards for Inclusive Health Research. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.27180270.v1 (external link, opens in new window)
Kollar, C., Sanderson, R., McKee, D. & Underwood, K. (2024). (PDF file) Policy Brief No. 14: Learning from the Yellowknife Evacuation of 2023: Climate Change, Childhood, and Northern Communities. Inclusive Early Childhood Service System project.
Ineese-Nash, N., Underwood, K., Haché, A. & Douglas, P. (2024). The Commodification of Care: Precarious Custodial Relationships, Disability, and Settler-Colonialism. Disability and the Changing Contexts of Family and Persona; Relationships Research in Social Science and Disability (RSSD), Volume 15, Edited by Gabriele Ciciurkaite and Robyn Lewis Brown.
Tollan, K. & Underwood, K. (2023). (PDF file) IECSS Policy Brief No. 13: Disabled children’s participation in a national childcare strategy. Inclusive Early Childhood Service System project.
Park, J., & Ceolin, K. (2023). (PDF file) Let the rivers flow: A gathering of Indigenous and allied communities, youth, professionals, and families with children from across Canada, event technical report. Inclusive Early Childhood Service System project. Toronto, ON: Toronto Metropolitan University.
Tollan, K., Jezrawi, R., Underwood, K., & Janus, M. (2023). (PDF file) A review on early intervention systems. Current Developmental Disorder Reports, 1-7.
Balter, A.S., Feltham, L., Parekh, G., Douglas, P., Underwood, K., & van Rhijn, T. (2023). (PDF file) Re-imagining inclusion through the lens of disabled childhoods. Disability and Social Inclusion: Lessons from the Pandemic, 11(1). 48-59.
IECSS. (2022). (PDF file) Policy brief no. 12: Policy recommendations for inclusive early childhood services. Inclusive Early Childhood Service System project.
Underwood, K., van Rhijn, T., Balter, A., Feltham, L., Douglas, P., Parekh, G., & Lawrence, B. (2021). Pandemic Effects: Ableism, Exclusion, and Procedural Bias. Journal of Childhood Studies,16-29. https://doi.org/10.18357/jcs463202119970 (external link)
van Rhijn, T., Underwood, K., Frankel, E., Lero, D. S., Spalding, K., Janus, M., Friendly, M., & Haché, A. (2021). Role of Child Care in Creating Inclusive Communities and Access for All. (external link) Canadian Public Policy,47(3), 399-409. https://doi.org/10.3138/cpp.2021-010