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Children Now, 2018
Research shows relationships fuel early brain development and provide the foundation for lifelong health and success. Yet we also know that parenting a very young child places enormous physical and emotional demands on adults. Some families may not have what they need, or know where to turn for support if they want it, even when it is within reach…
Descriptors: Brain, Child Development, Young Children, Parenting Styles
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Keilty, Bonnie; Kosaraju, Sagarika – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2018
Home visiting is a primary service delivery approach to promote young children's development and support families. Early Intervention professionals are expected to partner with families to create effective learning experiences in the daily context of routine family life. Concerns about early childhood (special) educators' readiness to take on this…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Home Visits, Home Programs, Child Development
Gebhard, Barbara; Ullrich, Rebecca; Cole, Patricia; Matthews, Hannah; Schmit, Stephanie – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2017
Early Head Start (EHS) is an evidence-based, federally funded, and community-based program with a two-generation approach to child development for children under age 3 and pregnant women in poverty. The mission of EHS is to support healthy prenatal outcomes; enhance the intellectual, social, and emotional development of infants and toddlers; and…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Child Development, Young Children, Family Programs
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Salisbury, Christine L.; Copeland, Christina G. – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2013
An exploratory case study was undertaken to examine child and caregiver outcomes in a diverse sample of 21 infants/toddlers with severe disabilities who received services from an urban, Part C program where caregiver-focused intervention was emphasized. Purposive sampling and mixed methods were used to collect data on child developmental change,…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Infants, Severe Disabilities, Child Development
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Khetani, Mary A.; Cohn, Ellen S.; Orsmond, Gael I.; Law, Mary C.; Coster, Wendy J. – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2013
The authors examined the extent to which parent expectations, perceptions about resource availability and supports, and strategies used to promote participation in home and community activities varied by setting and activity type. Sixteen 90-min semistructured interviews were completed with families receiving Part C early intervention services in…
Descriptors: Parents, Teaching Methods, Content Analysis, Early Intervention
Benjamin, Sarah – Zero to Three (J), 2010
There is a great disparity in early care and education opportunities between homeless children and their peers. The high mobility of families who are homeless and a lack of transportation to and from a center-based program present significant barriers to participation in early education. The authors describe a unique approach to meeting the needs…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Transportation, Home Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
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Nievar, M. Angela; Jacobson, Arminta; Chen, Qi; Johnson, Ursula; Dier, Shannon – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2011
This study investigated effects of Home Instruction of Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY), a paraprofessional home visiting program, on parents and children. The program site served low-income, Spanish-speaking families. On average, mothers were 31 years old (SD = 4.78) and children were 3 or 4 years old (M = 3.92, SD = 0.92). Participants (n…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement, Minority Group Children, Family Environment
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Rosemberg, Celia Renata; Stein, Alejandra; Borzone, Ana Maria – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2011
The study analyzes the lexical properties of the linguistic context that children from marginalized urban neighborhoods from Buenos Aires, Argentina, are exposed to in the literacy situations generated by an at-home early literacy program. The analysis is focused on the comparison of the vocabulary that these children are exposed to daily with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Emergent Literacy, Vocabulary Development, Young Children
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Vaughn, Lisa M.; Forbes, Janet R.; Howell, Britteny – Infants and Young Children, 2009
The purpose of this study was to conduct a "pilot participatory evaluation" of Every Child Succeeds (ECS), a well-established home visitation program in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, using Photovoice methodology. Every Child Succeeds serves first-time, at-risk mothers and their infants. Seven ECS mothers participated in the…
Descriptors: Mothers, Family Programs, Home Visits, Home Programs
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Strong, Carol J.; And Others – Infant-Toddler Intervention: The Transdisciplinary Journal, 1994
Data relating to 2,768 children served by the SKI*HI model of early, home-based programming for children with hearing impairments revealed that SKI*HI children, on average, were identified by 18 months of age, had higher rates of language development during intervention than prior to intervention, and had greater language gains than expected based…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Early Identification, Early Intervention, Family Programs
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Shelden, M'Lisa L.; Rush, Dathan D. – Infants and Young Children, 2001
This article refutes 10 myths and identifies literature that supports service delivery to infants and toddlers with disabilities in natural settings. The benefits of naturalistic intervention, home-based services, and family-centered services are discussed, and concerns regarding therapist shortages, ethical problems, personal safety of providers,…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Disabilities, Early Intervention
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Glover, Barbara; And Others – Infant-Toddler Intervention: The Transdisciplinary Journal, 1994
The SKI-HI program, which provides home-based family support services for infants, toddlers, and preschool children who are deaf or hard of hearing, has been implemented by approximately 250 agencies and annually serves about 4,000 families. Information is provided on the program's rationale, development, family-centered home-based services,…
Descriptors: Deafness, Early Intervention, Family Programs, Hearing Impairments
Peers Early Education Partnership, Oxford (England). – 2001
The goal of England's Peers Early Education Partnership (PEEP) is to support early communication and literacy skills and to support parents as their children's first educators through both home- and group-based programs. The program is currently offered to children under 5 years of age and their families in a disadvantaged area of Oxford. This…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Early Intervention, Emergent Literacy, Family Programs
Peers Early Education Partnership, Oxford (England). – 2002
The goal of England's Peers Early Education Partnership (PEEP) is to support early communication and literacy skills and to support parents as their children's first educators through both home- and group-based programs. The program is currently offered to children under 5 years of age and their families in a disadvantaged area of Oxford. This…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Early Intervention, Emergent Literacy, Family Programs
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Campbell, Susan; Cannon, Barbara; Ellis, James T.; Lifter, Karen; Luiselli, James K.; Navalta, Carryl P.; Taras, Marie – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 1998
Describes a comprehensive continuum of services model for children with autism developed by a human services agency in Massachusetts, which incorporates these and additional empirically based approaches. Service components, methodologies, and program objectives are described, including representative summary data. Best practice approaches toward…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Autism, Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs
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