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Children's Hospital Medical Center of Northern California, Oakland. – 1984
The report presents accomplishments of a program to stimulate new and improved services to high risk/handicapped infants (0-3), with specific emphasis on new intervention and followup services to chronically hospitalized premature babies in intensive care nurseries (ICNs). Following a summary of project accomplishments (including the provision of…
Descriptors: Disabilities, High Risk Persons, Infants, Intervention
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Gilkerson, Linda; Als, Heidelise – Infants and Young Children, 1995
This article describes the reflective process component of a multisite study of the effectiveness of family-focused, developmentally supportive care with low birthweight infants. Reflection is felt to be of particular value to developmental care because of the nature of the developmental approach itself, which is theory-guided, relationship-based,…
Descriptors: Birth Weight, Child Development, Conceptual Tempo, Developmental Programs
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Wilson, Valerie; McCormack, Brendan; Ives, Glenice – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2008
Action Learning is now a well established strategy for reflective inquiry in healthcare. Whilst a great deal is know about action learning there has been inadequate research on the process of learning that takes place, and the impact that this holds for individuals, groups or organisations. This article reports on the findings of 15-month action…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Program Effectiveness, Learning Processes, Inquiry
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Puryear, Michele; Weissman, Gloria; Watson, Michael; Mann, Marie; Strickland, Bonnie; van Dyck, Peter C. – Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 2006
Newborn screening and genetic technologies are expanding and changing rapidly, increasing the demand for genetic specialty services. Because of the scarcity and geographic maldistribution of genetic specialty services, access to these services is a critical issue. This article discusses some of the efforts initiated by the Maternal and Child…
Descriptors: Child Health, Genetics, Neonates, Infant Care
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McCracken, Wendy; Young, Alys; Tattersall, Helen; Uus, Kai; Bamford, John – Deafness and Education International, 2005
This article presents results related to the impact on educational support services of the introduction of the first phase of the national Newborn Hearing Screening Programme (NHSP) in England. This study was funded by the Department of Health and undertaken as one element of a national evaluation of NHSP across a range of domains. It presents…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Hearing (Physiology)
White, Karl R.; Mauk, Gary W. – 1993
The goal of this project was to increase by 50 percent the number of children with significant hearing impairment identified by 12 months of age. Attainment of this goal was attempted through activities in three major areas: (1) replication and documentation of the benefits of a birth certificate-based screening system; (2) investigation of the…
Descriptors: Acoustics, At Risk Persons, Auditory Evaluation, Auditory Tests
Lally, J. Ronald; And Others – 1987
The Syracuse University Family Development Research Program (FDRP), which ran from 1969 to 1975, provided support and day care for five years to very deprived families with newborn children. Participants, recruited in the third trimester of pregnancy, were low-education families with an annual income of less than $5,000, 85 percent of which were…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Child Development, Day Care, Delinquency