Toolkit
This toolkit provides guidance for developing preschoolers’ school readiness skills and is designed to help caregivers and developmental therapists better understand early learning skills important for preschoolers approaching kindergarten.
This toolkit is designed to help caregivers take an active role in their child’s learning by studying up on classroom participation skills. These are the skills that may first come to mind when you think about classroom readiness and involve actively engaging with peers, teachers, and classroom materials. Helping preschool-age children to know what to expect, and what is expected of them, can help them get ready to learn in the classroom setting.
Strategies to build and strengthen these skills are provided with neurodiversity in mind. Click here to access a free PDF of the toolkit.
Course
More strategies and resources can be found in the self-paced online course which will be available Fall 2025.
More strategies and resources can be found in the Teaching School Readiness Skills to Preschool-Aged Children self-paced online course. Make a free account at triad.vkclearning.org, then to the “School-Age Services” folder. If you already have an account, log in here.
This educational resource was created by the VKC’s Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorder (VKC TRIAD) and Vanderbilt Consortium LEND Training Program.
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[July 2025]