Student-caregivers are a hardworking group of students often mislabeled as being poor time and priority managers. Through both a review of literature and the ongoing research of the Caregiver Initiative, the authors know student-caregivers are devoted to their varying roles and see immense value in parenthood, care work, and their education. Given…

In two studies, three caregivers of neurotypical children were trained via telehealth to deliver two antecedent strategies to increase instruction following in the home. Dependent measures included initiation latency and task completion with high- and low-probability instructions. In Study 1, a modified pretrial delivery procedure was evaluated in…

Background: Staff working in municipal care homes with adults with intellectual disabilities impact their diet significantly. Aim: To explore how external factors influence staff's motivation and performance of nutritional work with these residents. Method: Semi-structured qualitative interviews with 11 staff using systematic text condensation for…

Caregivers play an important role in effective social and emotional learning (SEL) interventions for their children. The Collaborative for Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) states on the family partnerships page on its website, "When educators and families are partners in children's social and emotional development, the benefits go two…

The research presented in this article uses a community resilience framework to examine the lived experiences of Somali refugee Family Child Care providers in the United States who participated in the Steps to Family Child Care Success Program (STEPS), a year-long professional development program embedded in an ethnic community based organization…

Background: Interventions facilitated by caregivers have gained popularity among those caring for young children with autism. Instructing caregivers on specific techniques to foster social communication skills in their at-risk or diagnosed autistic children has the potential to alleviate concerns about their children's development. Moreover, it…

The 30 million word gap refers to the disparity in early language exposure between low socioeconomic status (SES) children and their higher SES peers, a gap that is thought to negatively impact children's language development and future academic success. Although many early intervention approaches have proven effective in promoting language…

Learning Landscapes (LLs) are family-friendly structures that transform community spaces (e.g., parks and bus stops) into engaging activities. The community structures are designed to encourage children to explore their environment while fostering developmentally supportive interactions (DSI) and learning opportunities between caregivers and…

Care-experienced young people face significant levels of mental distress yet the nature and lived reality of this is poorly understood and undermines the degree to which professional caregivers can provide effective support. This is exacerbated by the lack of 'voice' and control care-experienced young people have as active producers of knowledge…

Background: Support staff often face challenges with respect to experiencing meaningful moments of interaction with people with profound intellectual disabilities. Explicating such situational experiences of meaningfulness by staff members could facilitate the experience of meaningfulness for all staff. Method: In this multiple case study, three…

Caregivers serve an important role in guiding their children's early playful learning experiences, which range widely from free play to direct instruction. How caregivers themselves approach different play types and how to best encourage playful learning among families remains an underexplored area of research. Caregivers of 2-5-year-old children…

Asylum interviews have come to resemble credibility inquiries into applicants' stories. Their narratives are scrutinised and held against bureaucratic standards of 'truth'. To meet these standards, applicants for international protection require support in uncovering and reorienting their lived stories into factual accounts. Although this support…

This 10-year study followed 134 caregivers of young adults with autism and intellectual disability, examining the effects of caregivers' coping strategies, sociodemographic features, and young adult symptomatology on caregiver well-being and depression. Lower caregiver education and higher young adult externalizing behaviors predicted lower…

Caregivers play an outsized role in shaping early life experiences and development, but we often lack mechanistic insight into "how" exactly caregiver behavior scaffolds the neurodevelopment of specific learning processes. Here, we capitalized on the fact that caregivers differ in how predictable their behavior is to ask if infants'…

Infants, toddlers, and two-year-olds with disabilities or developmental delays often participate in center-based childcare. Just like other care and education settings, childcare for very young children should provide high-quality inclusion. To date, minimal research has been conducted on practitioner perspectives about inclusion in childcare for…