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Averi Pakulis; Nadia Gronkowski – First Focus on Children, 2024
Home visiting connects expectant parents, new caregivers, and their young children with a support person, called a home visitor. The home visitor meets regularly with the family, develops a relationship with them, and supports them to achieve their goals and meet their needs. To reach the thousands of additional families who could benefit from…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Home Programs, Models, Language Usage
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King, Gillian; Strachan, Deborah; Tucker, Michelle; Duwyn, Betty; Desserud, Sharon; Shillington, Monique – Infants and Young Children, 2009
This article reviews the literature on the transdisciplinary approach to early intervention services and identifies the essential elements of this approach. A practice model describing the implementation of the approach is then presented, based on the experiences of staff members in a home visiting program for infants that has been in existence…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Interdisciplinary Approach, Literature Reviews, Models
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Rogers, Elisabeth Lodge – Preventing School Failure, 1998
Describes a model for conducting functional assessment in the home. The model uses a trans-disciplinary technical-assistance team to assess and plan interventions for young children with severe challenging behaviors. Discussion includes the kind of information needed, specific examples of data collection in the home, and the benefits and barriers…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Data Collection, Disabilities, Early Intervention
Rowan, Lori; And Others – 1997
This report documents the activities and outcomes of the 5-year model demonstration project AHEAD (At Home and At Day Care), a Utah program that is designed to deliver services to infants, toddlers, and young children (ages birth-3) with noncategorical disabilities. The program delivers services to the children and their caregivers in their…
Descriptors: Day Care, Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Early Intervention
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Bekman, Sevda – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2002
This 4-year longitudinal study compared characteristics of different day care contexts and the home environment of young children in Turkey and their effects on child outcomes. Findings indicated that custodial and educational day care differed in quality. Short- and long-term child outcomes suggested that educational settings supported child…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Care Centers, Child Care Effects, Child Development
Hattie Larlham Foundation, Mantua, OH. – 1996
This report describes a model designed to provide family-centered, community-based coordinated services for families and their children with chronic health care needs. The model, which was implemented to serve 208 children over a 5-year period, is based on three key concepts: families should have the choice to receive services in their homes and…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Chronic Illness, Community Programs, Consultation Programs
Bunse, Carol; Deardorff, Pamela – 2001
This project was designed to provide training to personnel serving infants and young children with disabilities and their families. The outcome was increased capacity for state and local service agencies in Oregon, California, and Idaho to deliver quality home-based services for young children (birth through six) with disabilities and their…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Consultants, Disabilities, Diversity (Student)
Bunse, Carol; Deardorff, Pamela – 2000
The Family Consultant Model (FCT) was designed to provide training to personnel serving infants and young children with disabilities and their families. This was accomplished through the replication of the FCT Model within local programs presently serving infants, toddlers and their families. Training in the FCT model was provided to…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Consultants, Disabilities, Diversity (Student)
Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, Minneapolis, Minn. – 1972
Findings, conclusions, and recommendations concerning the role of the Federal Government in providing day care services are presented in this Summary Report, Part I of the Final Report. The six chapters of the report are as follows: 1. Statement of the Problem--identifies the social context in which day care and child development programs must be…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Welfare, Day Care, Day Care Centers