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Whitehurst, Grover – Center on Children and Families at Brookings, 2018
The standard model of the role of early experience in human development assumes that children's environments in their first years of life are dominant influences on who they become as adults. The standard model favors interventions to improve children's long-term outcomes that start early in life and are intensive in time and attention from…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Models, Experience, Child Development
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Watkins, Susan; And Others – American Annals of the Deaf, 1994
This study attempted to validate the effectiveness of the Intervener Service Model, which provides the services of a paraprofessional (called an intervener) to families of young children who are deaf-blind. The intervener provides auditory, visual, and tactile stimulation and helps the child develop interaction behaviors. Quantitative and…
Descriptors: Deaf Blind, Delivery Systems, Family Programs, Interaction