Abstract
Topics in Early Childhood Special Education (TECSE) is a topical journal, and we attempt to devote two of the four issues in each volume to particular subjects that will be of interest to our readers. The topics are almost always suggested by members of TECSE’s editorial team and approved by the journal’s senior editors. Sometimes the topics inspire a large number of submitted manuscripts, and sometimes the submissions are few. For the current issue, the topic was “Contributions of Single Case Research Methodology to Early Childhood Special Education,” and it was one of those solicitations that yielded very few submissions. However, we are pleased that the one topical article that is included in this issue, authored by Erin Barton and her colleagues from Vanderbilt University, addresses the topic substantively and directly. We believe that the article captures the topic in an edifying and useful manner and thereby fulfills the ambitions of the topical issue.
Available space permits us to include four other articles that represent the breadth of interests relevant to Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE). We trust that the contents of this issue will be informative and inspirational and that they will prove to be as responsive to our readers’ interests as possible. As always, we encourage suggestions and advice from anybody who comes in contact with TECSE and has ideas regarding possible improvements.