Abstract In Australia, over 900,000 children attend some type of early childhood education and care service. Many of these children have learning difficulties and early childhood teachers play a significant role in identifying children’s needs and working with other professionals to instigate and/or implement appropriate interventions. When educators and allied health professionals work collaboratively in interprofessional ways, they are in a better position to support children and their families. Drawing on findings from a sustained body of research, this short paper shares our reflections on some of the benefits and challenges of two different approaches to working in interprofessionally in Australian early childhood education settings, and provides some suggestions for supporting this work.

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幼儿教育和护理服务的跨专业工作，以支持有额外需求的儿童：两种方法

摘要 在澳大利亚，超过 900,000 名儿童接受某种类型的幼儿教育和护理服务。其中许多儿童有学习困难，幼儿教师在确定儿童的需求和与其他专业人员合作以发起和/或实施适当的干预措施方面发挥着重要作用。当教育工作者和专职卫生专业人员以跨专业的方式合作时，他们能够更好地支持儿童及其家庭。根据持续研究的结果，这篇简短的论文分享了我们对澳大利亚幼儿教育环境中跨专业工作的两种不同方法的一些好处和挑战的思考，并提供了一些支持这项工作的建议。