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Anna Cecilia McWhirter; Katherine A. Hails; David S. DeGarmo; Laura Lee McIntyre; S. Andrew Garbacz; Elizabeth A. Stormshak – Grantee Submission, 2024
Reliable and valid assessment of parenting and child behaviors is critical for clinicians and researchers alike, and observational measures of parenting behaviors are often considered the gold standard for assessing parenting and parent-child interaction quality. The current study sought to evaluate the reliability and validity of the Coder…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Test Reliability, Test Validity, Kindergarten
Collins, Belva C. – Brookes Publishing Company, 2023
Distance education services are an effective way to meet the needs of students with disabilities, but few special educators get the preparation they need to conduct high-quality instruction remotely. All the fundamentals are in this one-of-a-kind guide, the first dedicated book on distance learning for special educators. With contributions from…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Distance Education, Students with Disabilities, Preschool Education
Kelly M. Purtell; Hui Jiang; Laura M. Justice; Robin Sayers; Rebecca Dore; Logan Pelfrey – Grantee Submission, 2022
Background: Strong connections between children's teachers and their parents fosters their learning and development in early childhood and throughout their schooling. Developing strong connections in preschool may ease the transition to elementary school for children. Objective: The goal of this study is to examine the initial implementation of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship
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Kelly M. Purtell; Hui Jiang; Laura M. Justice; Robin Sayers; Rebecca Dore; Logan Pelfrey – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2022
Background: Strong connections between children's teachers and their parents fosters their learning and development in early childhood and throughout their schooling. Developing strong connections in preschool may ease the transition to elementary school for children. Objective: The goal of this study is to examine the initial implementation of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship
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Gerhardt, Peter F.; Bahry, Shanna; Driscoll, Natalie M.; Cauchi, Jessica; Mason, Brian K.; Deshpande, Madhura – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2023
A meaningful curriculum is one that is individualized, inclusive of the individual's unique needs and interests, and focused on building independence in current and future environments. A meaningful curriculum addresses an individual's needs and prioritizes instructional programs based on what is, potentially, most important to their lives and not…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Curriculum, Skill Development, Intervention
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Ergin, Emel; Bakkaloglu, Hatice – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
In this study, in-classroom transitions in inclusive preschools in Turkey were examined. The study, which was conducted with the descriptive model, was carried out with 30 preschool teachers and 30 children with special needs (CWSN) and 30 children without special needs from these teachers' classes. In order to collect data, Information Form and…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Special Needs Students
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Lechner, Viola; Ortelbach, Niklas; Peter, Charlotte; Scheithauer, Herbert – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2022
Children face increased demands for interpersonal as well as learning-related social skills, especially by the vulnerable stage of school entry, due to the more structured setting, new academic requirements, and the fact that children are supposed to interact successfully within a larger and heterogeneous peer group. Although a plethora of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Transitional Programs, Preschool Education
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Welchons, Leah Wildenger; McIntyre, Laura Lee – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2017
The transition to kindergarten is regarded as a critical early childhood developmental milestone with important implications for later school outcomes. Little prior research has focused on predictors of socio-behavioral kindergarten outcomes using longitudinal research designs. Further, few studies have examined kindergarten transition using…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, School Readiness, Predictor Variables, Social Influences
McDermott, Jennifer Martin; Pears, Katherine C.; Bruce, Jacqueline; Kim, Hyoun K.; Roos, Leslie; Yoerger, Karen L.; Fisher, Philip A. – Grantee Submission, 2017
Background: Among children diagnosed with developmental delays, difficulties in self-regulation are prominent and have been linked to school readiness problems. Objective: The current study sought to examine the impact of the Kids In Transition to School (KITS) school readiness intervention program on self-regulation, with a specific focus on…
Descriptors: Developmental Delays, Self Control, School Readiness, Transitional Programs
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Eisenhower, Abbey; Taylor, Heather; Baker, Bruce L. – School Psychology Review, 2016
Starting Strong in Kindergarten (Starting Strong) is a school-based indicated prevention targeting behavior problems, student-teacher relationships, and parent-school connectedness for children with or at risk for disruptive behavior problems during the transition to kindergarten. By use of a block-randomized, controlled trial to test program…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Prevention, Transitional Programs, Behavior Problems
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Siegel, Ellin B.; Lien, Susan E. – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2015
A single-subject, alternating treatment study compared the impact of two types of photograph displays of contrasting contextual complexity. The study examined the impact of high-context and no-context photographs, displayed on an iPad, on the ability of three preschool children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to transition to play activities.…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Photography, Visual Stimuli
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Park, Hye-Suk Lee; Lynch, Sharon A. – Young Exceptional Children, 2014
Teachers of young children can plan proactively so that they avoid some of the serious problem behaviors in the classroom. The strategies presented in this article are part of a problem solving approach to challenging behavior based on the principles of positive behavioral support. Although these methods presented here have research-based…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Young Children, Student Behavior, Problem Solving
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Schneider, Barry H.; Manetti, Mara; Frattini, Laura; Rania, Nadia; Santo, Jonathan Bruce; Coplan, Robert J.; Cwinn, Eli – School Psychology International, 2014
Systematic, mandated facilitation of school transitions is an important but understudied aspect of the Reggio-Emilia approach to early childhood education admired internationally as best practice. We studied the links between Northern Italian transition practices and academic achievement, school liking, cooperativeness, and problem behaviors. We…
Descriptors: Reggio Emilia Approach, Foreign Countries, Transitional Programs, Early Childhood Education
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Hemmeter, Mary; Ostrosky, Michaelene; Artman, Kathleen; Kinder, Kiersten – Young Children, 2008
The authors discuss why challenging behavior tends to occur during transitions. They offer strategies for planning and implementing more effective transitions, ideas for using transitions to teach social skills and emotional competencies, and a planning process for working individually with children who continue to have difficulty during…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Disabilities, Behavior Problems, Student Behavior
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, US Department of Education, 2014
This is the 36th Annual Report to Congress on the Implementation of the "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act," 2014. Section 664(d) of the "Individuals with Disabilities Education Act" ("IDEA") (P.L. 108-446), as reauthorized in 2004, requires that the Department of Education report annually on the progress…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Disabilities, Equal Education
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