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Zaslow, Martha, Ed.; Martinez-Beck, Ivelisse, Ed.; Tout, Kathryn, Ed.; Halle, Tamara, Ed. – Brookes Publishing Company, 2011
What constitutes quality in early childhood settings, and how can it best be measured with today's widely used tools and promising new approaches? Find authoritative answers in this book, a must-have for high-level administrators and policymakers as more and more states adopt early childhood Quality Rating and Improvement Systems. The most…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Early Childhood Education, Disabilities, Toddlers
Strong, Carol J.; Clark, Thomas C. – 1990
This program evaluation report presents information on Project SKI*HI, a home-based program for infants and young children with hearing impairments and their families. The program's major goals are early identification of hearing-impaired infants and a home program to facilitate child development. A parent advisor makes weekly home visits to each…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs, Early Intervention, Handicap Identification
Barringer, Donald; Johnson, Dorothy – 1993
This monograph reports achievements of the SKI*HI project, a 3-year outreach project to improve access and development of services to presently unserved or underserved infants and young children with hearing impairments as well as to provide leadership and technical assistance to agencies implementing the SKI*HI model. The project provided direct…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Early Identification, Early Intervention, Hearing Aids
Utah State Univ., Logan. Dept. of Communicative Disorders. – 1993
This final report describes activities of Project INSITE, a 3-year home intervention program delivering services to infants, toddlers, and preschoolers with deaf blindness or other multidisability sensory impairments. The family centered model features the use of early intervention professionals known as parent advisors who visit homes weekly to…
Descriptors: Deaf Blind, Delivery Systems, Early Intervention, Hearing Aids
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Stremel-Campbell, Kathleen; Rowland, Charity – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1987
Suggestions for narrowing the discrepancy between the knowledge base of early communication development and the implementation of effective communication interventions for severely handicapped infants and young children are offered including strategies for facilitating emerging language development, increasing positive interactions with infants,…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Infants, Inservice Teacher Education, Interaction Process Analysis
Parlakian, Rebecca – 2003
By exploring what school readiness means in the context of work with very young children, program leaders can better understand how they can support the lifetime learning of infants and toddlers in their programs. This book, designed for infant-family program leaders, examines the important role that cognitive and social-emotional skills play in…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Care, Cultural Influences, Developmentally Appropriate Practices