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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
Manuel Pacheco-Molero; Catalina Morales-Murillo; Irene León-Estrada; Mónica Gutiérrez-Ortega – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2025
Family-centered services are the recommended early intervention approach to develop and deliver services for children with disabilities and their families. This systematic review aims to identify and highlight what barriers service providers in family-centered early intervention perceive that prevent them from providing high-quality services…
Descriptors: Family Programs, Early Intervention, Barriers, Well Being
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
Tiffany Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Outdoor play is a crucial in supporting child development, resiliency, social skills, creative thinking, adaptability, family growth, and family engagement. Unfortunately, children are spending less time outside because of technology, parent fears, and other factors. Parents who have a child with a disability have even more challenges when it…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Infants, Toddlers, Developmental Delays
Rutland, Julie Harp; Hawkins-Lear, Sarah; Gooden, Caroline J. – Young Exceptional Children, 2023
Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) is the term used to describe newborn experiences of withdrawal after exposure to opioids or other substances in utero (Kondili & Duryea, 2019). An urgent need exists for trained practitioners to serve children with NAS and their families (e.g., Gregory, 2014; Hancock et al., 2017; Health care Cost and…
Descriptors: Neonates, Drug Abuse, Prenatal Influences, Drug Rehabilitation
Paula Pittman; Jodee S. Crace – American Annals of the Deaf, 2023
The SKI-HI Deaf Mentor Program is an early intervention model that supports families in creating an effective bilingual environment (American Sign Language [ASL]/English) with their deaf or hard of hearing child. The program can be adopted and implemented in any state. A Deaf Mentor is a deaf or hard of hearing adult specifically trained to engage…
Descriptors: Deafness, Mentors, Hearing Impairments, Bilingualism
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
Download full textMarissa Strassberger – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2024
A defining feature of Head Start is its whole-family approach where programs partner with parents and guardians to identify their strengths and needs, set goals, and access services to improve family wellbeing. However, little research evidence exists about how Head Start and Early Head Start staff members do this essential work. The "Head…
Descriptors: Social Services, Low Income Students, Federal Programs, Family Involvement
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
Himani Kukreja – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Early intervention is the area of practice specific to children aged 0-3 years old and is often made up of a team of professionals working towards similar goals for a child alongside the family. Many of these settings use a multidisciplinary approach. This study aims to create a transdisciplinary model for early intervention professionals to…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Family Programs, Empowerment, Advocacy
