In Practice: Creating Access to Early Childhood Education for Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities

From 1997 through 2007 the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation and the National Office of Head Start collaborated to fund the Hilton/Early Head Start Training Program to include children with disabilities—including serious disabilities—in the new Early Head Start program. Together, the Hilton Foundation and Head Start Bureau contributed more than $38 million over ten years for this project that touched the lives of over 17,000 young children with disabilities.