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A. M. C. Lange; M. Zandbergen; A. M. E. Bijlsma; G. J. Overbeek; L. Boendermaker – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2025
Background: Home-visiting programs often aim to improve parenting skills, parent-child relationships, and children's developmental outcomes for at-risk families. Although research has identified what elements of these interventions are effective when provided by professionals, little is known about effective components of volunteer-based…
Descriptors: Family Programs, Parents, Volunteers, Home Visits
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Victoria Hulks; A. Hoose; C. Croke; A. Hendry – Journal of Museum Education, 2025
Experiencing broad play and interaction opportunities is known to support children's learning and development and engagement with museum collections has the potential to stimulate enriching learning opportunities for even the youngest enquiring minds. Here, we describe the development of Toddler Time; a museum-based early years program developed…
Descriptors: Museums, Toddlers, Interaction, Interpersonal Communication
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Victoria Hidalgo García; Javier Pérez-Padilla; Carlos Camacho Martínez-Vara de Rey; Lucía Jiménez García – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2025
Background: Among the different modalities of family support, home visiting programs have proved to be one of the most effective secondary prevention models for families involved in child welfare services. Despite the promising outcomes and the extensive available literature, further research is needed to investigate target population…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Family Environment, Home Visits, Program Implementation
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Daniel Sutherland; Samantha Flynn; Joanna Griffin; Richard P. Hastings – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2025
Background: Family members of children with developmental disabilities on average report poorer family functioning and mental health. Positive Family Connections is a co-produced, positively-oriented, family-systems support programme for families of children with developmental disabilities aged 8-13. We investigated experiences of Positive Family…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Children, Early Adolescents, Family Environment
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Anne-Marie Day – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2025
Neurodivergent children and children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are significantly over-represented in the school-excluded and youth justice populations both internationally and in the UK. Given the wealth of knowledge established about the 'school to prison pipeline', it is crucial that we understand why this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Students with Disabilities, Special Needs Students
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James D. Lee; Veronica Y. Kang; Adriana Kaori Terol; Sean Joo – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Culturally responsive interventions for autistic children and their families have been developed and implemented to address issues related to limited representation, inequities, and disparities in access to care of minoritized families in research. Currently available reviews are relatively limited in scope or do not synthesize interventions…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Children, Family Programs, Immigrants
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Sam Harding; Rena Lyons; Katelyn Melvin; Ellie Sugden; Clare Carroll; Maja Kelic; Inge Klatte; Tina Mantel – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2025
Collaborative working with families has positive impacts on outcomes for families and children. However, implementing a collaborative approach requires allied health professionals to have knowledge, skills, experience, and confidence in working with families. This scoping review aimed to explore teaching practices used in order to prepare allied…
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, Allied Health Occupations Education, Young Children, Experiential Learning
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Kathy Leadbitter; Louisa Harrison; Sophie Langhorne; Ceri Ellis; Richard Smallman; Amelia Pearson; Latha Hackett; Leo Kroll; Alison Dunkerley; Hilary Beach; June Gilbert; Amy van Gils; Tessa Hutton; Jonathan Green; Penny Bee; REACH-ASD Team – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
Caregivers can experience significant challenges following their child's autism diagnosis and often seek informational, relational and emotional support. Post-diagnostic support for caregivers has received relatively little research attention and represents a significant gap in the international evidence base. We used an iterative codesign process…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Parents, Caregivers