Parrhesia Regarding Early Intervention Birth to Five: Rethinking the Order of Things

124 YOUNG EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN Vol. 24, No. 3, September 2021 https://doi.org/10.1177/10962506211019347 DOI: 10.1177/10962506211019347 journals.sagepub.com/home/yec Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions © 2021 Division for Early Childhood Parrhesia, as we will see, is about speaking the truth. William Faulkner (1951) said, “Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world . . . would do this, it would change the earth.” In this article, we rethink the order of things in early intervention for children birth through 5 years of age and we present a model for the present and future. When I was editor of the Journal of Early Intervention (JEI), the Division for Early Childhood of the Council for Exceptional Children (DEC) established Young Exceptional Children (YEC). The idea was to have practical articles for early intervention and early childhood special education (EI/ ECSE) practitioners. YEC has successfully provided this service to DEC members and the humanistic and social-scientific disciplines through articles that translate research to practice. The editors of this special issue of YEC have provided a translation of theory to practice, which has allowed us to step outside the typical nuts and bolts article of our EI/ECSE field, and to present practitioners with some philosophical ideas about why the field had to change. We do end with a model of extremely concrete ideas (see www.eieio.ua.edu). 1019347 YECXXX10.1177/10962506211019347Young Exceptional ChildrenParrhesia / McWilliam et al. research-article2021