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Direct linkMiriam Kuhn; Johanna Higgins – Journal of Early Intervention, 2025
Service coordinators (SCs) in Part C early intervention (EI) programs fulfill critical supportive roles assisting families in accessing and successfully navigating services needed for their infants/toddlers identified with delays or disabilities. However, evidence of effective training for SCs is limited. One state scaled up training in the…
Descriptors: Home Visits, Early Intervention, Coordinators, Infants
Emily Ferrell; Jennifer Marshall; Henrietta Bada; Russell S. Kirby – Journal of Early Intervention, 2025
Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) is a public health issue that affected more than 2% of live births in Kentucky in 2017. We analyzed data from Kentucky's early intervention (EI) program and the mandatory statewide NAS registry to learn more about how families of children with NAS utilize EI services. Out of 1,113 children in the study, 32% were…
Descriptors: Public Health, Neonates, Early Intervention, State Programs
Karen Winter; Paul Connolly; Sharon Millen; Daryl Sweet – Child Care in Practice, 2024
In social work with children and families, the use of the articles of the UNCRC to inform our understanding of parents and parenting is often overshadowed by the necessary focus on the UNCRC articles as they pertain to the rights of children. Yet, the UNCRC is crucial to our understanding of parenthood because it both defines the role and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Childrens Rights, International Law
Catherine A. Bent; Alexandra Aulich; Christos Constantine; Esther Fidock; Patrick Dwyer; Cherie Green; Jodie Smith; Ava N. Gurba; Lucas T. Harrington; Katherine E. Gore; Aspasia Stacey Rabba; Lauren N. Ayton; Kathryn Fordyce; Jonathan Green; Rachel Jellett; Lyndel J. Kennedy; Katherine E. MacDuffie; Shoba S. Meera; Linda R. Watson; Andrew J. O. Whitehouse; Kristelle Hudry – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
Emerging evidence suggests parenting supports implemented in the first 2 years of life may influence developmental outcomes for infants more likely to be Autistic. Yet questions remain about acceptability of these supports to the Autistic and autism communities. Through mixed-methods participatory research -- co-designed and produced by Autistic…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Community Attitudes, Infants, Community Surveys
McCarthy, Melissa; Leigh, Greg; Arthur-Kelly, Michael – Infants and Young Children, 2022
Family-centered early intervention (FCEI) is characterized by the collaborative relationships that exist within triads of practitioners, caregivers, and young children whereby practitioners use capacity-building practices to foster caregivers' involvement in supporting their children's early development. Traditionally, FCEI has been provided…
Descriptors: Family Programs, Early Intervention, Videoconferencing, Children
Kelly Fulton; Adriana Kaori Terol; Abby Hardy; Meghan M. Burke – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2025
Although family-centeredness is a tenet of early intervention, families often report struggling to meaningfully participate in decision-making. To increase family involvement, in the United States Parent Training and Information Centers (PTIs) and service coordinators are charged with educating and empowering families to advocate for their…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Parent Attitudes, Parent Education, Parent Responsibility
Spence, Christine M.; Rooks-Ellis, Deborah L.; Ruiz, Amber Brown; Fish, Leigh Ann; Jones, Brooklin; O'Grady, Courtney E.; Sulinski, Ella – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2022
Implicitly-held unconscious associations and attitudes may not align with the beliefs we hold outwardly or explicitly but can affect our professional perceptions, decisions, and actions. In a phenomenological study identifying strategies used to support families in vulnerable circumstances, we conducted nine focus groups to examine how early…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Professional Personnel, Family (Sociological Unit), Young Children
Danika L. Pfeiffer; Christine Reiner Hess; Rebecca J. Landa – Infants and Young Children, 2024
Infancy, a formative period for development, has been identified as an advantageous time to provide family-centered support for children with delays. Families should be included as stakeholders during development of such interventions to ensure social value. We describe a preliminary randomized controlled trial evaluating Infant Achievements (IA),…
Descriptors: Infants, Infant Care, Family Role, Child Development
Tiffany Phu; Elly Miles; Amy Dominguez; Jason Hustedt; Sarah Enos Watamura; BTS Consortium Principal Investigators – Prevention Science, 2025
The Buffering Toxic Stress (BTS) consortium included six sites in locations that varied widely in racial/ethnic composition and population density. Each site tested a promising parent-child intervention designed to supplement Early Head Start (EHS) services and prevent "toxic stress." To better understand family risk in a large and…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Stress Management, Parent Child Relationship, Family Programs
Download full textMollie Romano; Melissa Schnurr; Erin Elizabeth Barton; Juliann Woods; Cindy Weigel – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2023
Using an implementation science framework, this study examines the impact of a multicomponent professional development (PD) approach implemented by internal peer coaches on early intervention providers' use of Family Guided Routines-Based Intervention. The experimental study used a single-case multiple baseline design across participants,…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Coaching (Performance), Professional Development, Educational Legislation
Mélina Rivard; Catherine Mello; Shaneha Patel; Marjorie Morin; Diane Morin – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
The pathway for post-diagnostic services for autism tends to be complex, heterogeneous, and fraught with delays. This situation has repercussions for families' experience with care systems, the quality of early interventions, and family adjustment. To date, studies of parents' point of view on autism services have predominantly focused on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Parents, Students with Disabilities
Brown, Amber L.; Jain, Preeti – School Community Journal, 2022
This study aimed to determine the program satisfaction of Latina mothers who participated in the Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) program in a large, urban area in the Southwest with the purpose of identifying the specific components of HIPPY that Latina mothers feel best supported them in their role as their child's…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Mothers, Participant Satisfaction, Preschool Children
Jamie N. Pearson; Janet K. Outlaw; Jared H. Stewart-Ginsburg; DeVoshia L. Mason Martin – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2024
Black children and their families encounter systemic disadvantages in their journey to and through an autism diagnosis. Black families often experience social and systemic barriers to service use. Providing family-centered, psychoeducational interventions can reduce barriers to service access and utilization for Black families raising autistic…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, African American Children, African American Family, Clinical Diagnosis
McCarthy, Melissa; Leigh, Greg; Arthur-Kelly, Michael – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2021
For infants and young children who are identified as deaf or hard of hearing (DHH), best practice principles indicate the provision of family-centered early intervention (FCEI). However, factors such as geographical inaccessibility and workforce shortages can limit families' access to FCEI in their local area. One strategy for overcoming these…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Infants, Toddlers
Callanan, John; Signal, Tania; McAdie, Tina – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2023
Including parents of children with developmental delays in early intervention programs has been widely endorsed as best practice across the multiple disciplines that work in that context. Parents have echoed that sentiment, commenting on the benefits of being able to apply skills in broader family and community contexts. Despite a 20-plus year…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Early Intervention, Parent Child Relationship, Developmental Delays
