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Megan Clark; Dawn Adams – Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
Resilience remains under-researched in childhood disability. This review synthesized the available literature on resilience in children with autism and/or intellectual disability (ID), with a focus on the measurement of resilience across the eight studies that met inclusion criteria. Questionnaires were commonly used to assess resilience, with a…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Autism Spectrum Disorders, Intellectual Disability, Children
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Shari DeVeney; Priyanka Chaudhary; Brooke Heyne; John Rech; Danae Dinkel – Infants and Young Children, 2025
Early childhood is a critical period characterized by rapid development of motor and language skills. Reliably assessing motor and language development in early childhood is difficult, and there is a lack of agreement on measurement tool use. This scoping review aims to identify measurement tools used to examine motor and language skills in…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Infants, Toddlers, Preschool Children
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Abdoola, Shabnam; Swanepoel, De Wet; Van Der Linde, Jeannie – Journal of Early Intervention, 2023
The Parents' Evaluation of Developmental Status (PEDS), PEDS: Developmental Milestones (PEDS: DM) and PEDS tools (i.e., the PEDS and PEDS:DM combined for use) are parent-reported screening tools frequently used to identify young children requiring early intervention. An ideal screening tool for all contexts would be brief, inexpensive with…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Identification, Child Development, Early Intervention
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Munoz-Chereau, Bernardita; Ang, Lynn; Dockrell, Julie; Outhwaite, Laura; Heffernan, Claire – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2021
The Sustainable Development Goals mandate that by 2030, all children should have access to quality early child development opportunities, healthcare and pre-primary education. Yet validated measures of ECD in low and middle income countries (LMICs) are rare. To address this gap, a Systematic Review (SR) of measures available to profile the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Early Experience, Measures (Individuals), Evaluation Methods
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Iverson, Sydney L.; Gartstein, Maria A. – Early Education and Development, 2018
Research Findings: Temperament, often defined in terms of reactive and regulatory tendencies, has been shown to predict child outcomes over and above other risk factors and represents a critical aspect of social-emotional development. The present article is a systematic review of temperament-based interventions targeting caregivers, wherein the…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Intervention, Goodness of Fit, Stress Variables
Karoly, Lynn A. – RAND Corporation, 2014
Care Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRISs) have advanced and matured, a number of states and localities have undertaken evaluations to validate the systems. Such efforts stem from the desire to ensure that the system is designed and operating in the ways envisioned when the system was established. Given that a central component in a QRIS…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Program Effectiveness, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality
Khattab, Mohammad Salih – 1995
This report reviews the status of early childhood education (ECE) programs in UNICEF's Middle East and North Africa region. The report compiles information about ECE programs in 18 countries based on a questionnaire sent to UNICEF country offices and other sources. The introduction sets out the economic and social rationales for investing in early…
Descriptors: Child Development, Day Care, Day Care Centers, Developing Nations
Kaplan, Leonard; And Others – 1990
The two goals underlying this study were to provide the first data on how educators feel about learners' emotional displays, and to relate those viewpoints to their interactive behavior in specific learning environments. Prior to this investigation there was no literature addressing the socialization of emotion in schools, in fact, the bulk of…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavioral Science Research, Child Development, Educational Environment
Chen, Milton – 1984
This report discusses research related to the educational potential of 3-2-1 CONTACT, a PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) series on science and technology, which was produced by the Children's Television Workshop for a primary target audience of 8- to 12-year-olds in both home and school settings. Conducted over a 6-year period (1977-83), this…
Descriptors: Child Development, Childrens Television, Educational Television, Evaluation Methods