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Initial Validation of an Elementary Version of the Positive Family Support Strengths and Needs Assessment
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Garbacz, S. Andrew; Beattie, Tiffany; Masser, Julianne; DeGarmo, Dave – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2019
The purpose of the present study was to conduct an initial validation of the Positive Family Support--Strengths and Needs Assessment (PFS-SaNA) for elementary school children. The PFS-SaNA is designed as a universal screener wherein parents report on common areas their children may need additional support. Parents of children attending one…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Needs Assessment, Elementary School Students, Screening Tests
Differential Effect of Duration of Early Childcare under the Age of Three on Socio-Emotional Outcomes
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Linberg, Anja; Burghardt, Lars; Freund, Jan-David; Weinert, Sabine – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
International study results point to potential negative associations of time spent in early childhood education and care (ECEC) centres in the first 3 years of a child's life and socio-emotional outcomes. However, the transferability of international results to the German ECEC system and the impact of characteristics of the home learning…
Descriptors: Program Length, Time Factors (Learning), Emotional Development, Social Development
The Socio-Emotional Development of Language-Minority Children Entering Primary School in Ireland
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McNally, Sinéad; Darmody, Merike; Quigley, Jean – Irish Educational Studies, 2019
Socio-emotional development is increasingly recognised as playing a central role in children's academic achievement. However, little is known about the socio-emotional development of language-minority children on entry to school and how these children fare in comparison to their language-majority peers. To address this gap, longitudinal data on…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Academic Achievement, Language Minorities
Risk Diagnosis for the Development of Social Behaviour Disorders in Pre-school Children.
Butollo, W. – 1977
This paper is a summary of a study concerned with identification of risk variables which affect the development of social and emotional behavior in young children. Families with pre-schoolers responded to a questionnaire designed to screen children who might be considered high risk. The screening results were validated with behavior observations…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Rearing, Children, Parent Child Relationship
Infant Assessment: Issues and Applications.
Darby, Betty L., Ed.; May, Marcia J., Ed. – 1979
The book offers 14 papers presented at two conferences on assessment and intervention with handicapped infants, sponsored by the Western States Technical Assistance Resource. Titles and authors include: "Neonatal Diagnosis of the Neurologically Handicapped" (M. Coleman); "Principles of Infant Assessment" (J. Swanson); "Focus on the Parent-Infant…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills, Down Syndrome
Hearing Screening of Infants and the Importance of Early Language Acquisition. Linkoping Studies in Education and Psychology No. 72.
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Magnuson, Miriam – 2000
This thesis explores parental perspectives on hearing-screening of children, and the importance of the time of detection of a congenital hearing impairment for the child's development. A qualitative approach based mainly on interviews was employed, and the results were analyzed according to three different methods-empirical phenomenology, grounded…
Descriptors: Deafness, Early Identification, Early Intervention, Foreign Countries
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Early Identification Research Project.
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Fewell, Rebecca R. – 1999
A major aim of this study was to determine if Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) type behaviors observed at the age of 30 months in low birth weight children are predictive of ADHD and school difficulties at 5 and 8 years of age. Three major questions were addressed: (1) Do children who exhibit ADHD characteristics at 30 months differ…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Attention Deficit Disorders, Child Behavior, Cognitive Development
Educating Children with Autism.
National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, DC. – 2001
The National Research Council formed a Committee on Educational Interventions for Children with Autism and charged the committee with integrating the scientific, theoretical, and policy literature and creating a framework for evaluating the scientific evidence concerning the effects and features of educational interventions for young children with…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Clinical Diagnosis