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How Do Caregivers Select Preschools? A Study of Children with and without Disabilities
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Glenn-Applegate, Katherine; Justice, Laura M.; Kaderavek, Joan – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2016
Background: Little is known about how parents and other caregivers conceptualize preschool quality, or what factors they prioritize when selecting a preschool. Caregivers of children with disabilities have the additional challenge of finding a preschool that can address their children's special needs. Objective: We explored the factors caregivers…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Decision Making, School Choice, Preschool Education
Examining Quality in Two Preschool Settings: Publicly Funded Early Childhood Education and Inclusive Early Childhood Education Classrooms
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Pelatti, Christina Yeager; Dynia, Jaclyn M.; Logan, Jessica A.; Justice, Laura M.; Kaderavek, Joan – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2016
Background: Although classroom quality is an important consideration, few recent research studies have examined the process and structural quality in publicly funded early childhood education (ECE) and inclusive ECE classrooms. This study provides an important contribution to the literature by comparing two conceptualizations of quality in…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Low Income Groups, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education
Relations among Home Literacy Environment, Child Characteristics and Print Knowledge for Preschool Children with Language Impairment
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Sawyer, Brook E.; Justice, Laura M.; Guo, Ying; Logan, Jessica A. R.; Petrill, Stephen A.; Glenn-Applegate, Katherine; Kaderavek, Joan N.; Pentimonti, Jill M. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2014
To contribute to the modest body of work examining the home literacy environment (HLE) and emergent literacy outcomes for children with disabilities, this study addressed two aims: (a) to determine the unique contributions of the HLE on print knowledge of preschool children with language impairment and (b) to identify whether specific child…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Emergent Literacy, Individual Characteristics, Preschool Children
Influences on the Congruence between Parents' and Teachers' Ratings of Young Children's Social Skills and Problem Behaviors
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Dinnebeil, Laurie A.; Sawyer, Brook E.; Logan, Jessica; Dynia, Jaclyn M.; Cancio, Edward; Justice, Laura M. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2013
A comprehensive research base exists concerning the congruence between parents' and teachers' ratings of the behavior of typically developing young children. However, little research has been conducted regarding the degree to which parents' and teachers' behavioral ratings of young children with disabilities are congruent. Additionally, previous…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Young Children, Influences, Congruence (Psychology)