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Criterion Validity of the Early Communication Indicator for Infants and Toddlers
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Greenwood, Charles R.; Buzhardt, Jay; Walker, Dale; Jia, Fan; Carta, Judith J. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2020
The Early Communication Indicator (ECI) is a progress monitoring measure designed to support intervention decisions of the home visitors and early educators who serve infants and toddlers. The present study sought to add to the criterion validity claims of the ECI in a large sample of children using measures of language and preliteracy not…
Descriptors: Progress Monitoring, Total Communication, Infants, Toddlers
Criterion Validity of the Early Communication Indicator for Infants and Toddlers
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Greenwood, Charles R.; Buzhardt, Jay; Walker, Dale; Jia, Fan; Carta, Judith J. – Grantee Submission, 2020
The Early Communication Indicator (ECI) is a progress monitoring measure designed to support intervention decisions of the home visitors and early educators who serve infants and toddlers. The present study sought to add to the criterion validity claims of the ECI in a large sample of children using measures of language and preliteracy not…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Students with Disabilities, Educational Legislation, Equal Education
Technology to Guide Data-Driven Intervention Decisions: Effects on Language Growth of Young Children at Risk for Language Delay
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Buzhardt, Jay; Greenwood, Charles R.; Jia, Fan; Walker, Dale; Schneider, Naomi; Larson, Anne L.; Valdovinos, Maria; McConnell, Scott R. – Exceptional Children, 2020
Data-driven decision making (DDDM) helps educators identify children not responding to intervention, individualize instruction, and monitor response to intervention in multitiered systems of support (MTSS). More prevalent in K-12 special education, MTSS practices are emerging in early childhood. In previous reports, we described the Making Online…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Decision Making, Special Education, Infants
Technology to Guide Data-Driven Intervention Decisions: Effects on Language Growth of Young Children at Risk for Language Delay
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Buzhardt, Jay; Greenwood, Charles R.; Jia, Fan; Walker, Dale; Schneider, Naomi; Larson, Anne L.; Valdovinos, Maria; McConnell, Scott R. – Grantee Submission, 2020
Data-driven decision making (DDDM) helps educators identify children not responding to intervention, individualize instruction, and monitor response to intervention in multitiered systems of support (MTSS). More prevalent in K-12 special education, MTSS practices are emerging in early childhood. In previous reports, we described the Making Online…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Decision Making, Special Education, Infants
Program-Level Influences on the Measurement of Early Communication for Infants and Toddlers in Early Head Start
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Greenwood, Charles R.; Buzhardt, Jay; Walker, Dale; Howard, Waylon J.; Anderson, Rawni – Journal of Early Intervention, 2011
Measurement in early childhood is an increasingly large-scale endeavor addressing purposes of accountability, program improvement, child outcomes, and intervention decision making for individual children. The Early Communication Indicator (ECI) is a measure relevant to intervention decision making for infants and toddlers, including response to…
Descriptors: Individualized Family Service Plans, Early Intervention, Total Communication, Program Improvement
Effects of Web-Based Support on Early Head Start Home Visitors' Use of Evidence-Based Intervention Decision Making and Growth in Children's Expressive Communication
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Buzhardt, Jay; Greenwood, Charles R.; Walker, Dale; Anderson, Rawni; Howard, Waylon; Carta, Judith J. – NHSA Dialog, 2011
We investigated Early Head Start home visitors' use of evidence-based practices and the efficacy of a web-based system to support these practices. Home visitors learned to use 3 evidence-based practices: (a) frequent assessment of children's early communication for screening and progress monitoring, (b) 2 home-based language-promoting…
Descriptors: Evidence, Early Intervention, Disadvantaged Youth, Home Visits
The Early Communication Indicator for Infants and Toddlers: Early Head Start Growth Norms from Two States
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Greenwood, Charles R.; Walker, Dale; Buzhardt, Jay – Journal of Early Intervention, 2010
The Early Communication Indicator (ECI) is a measure relevant to intervention decision making and progress monitoring for infants and toddlers. With increasing recognition of the importance of quality early childhood education and intervention for all children, measurement plays an important role in documenting children's progress and outcomes of…
Descriptors: Individualized Family Service Plans, Total Communication, Early Childhood Education, Disadvantaged Youth
Developing a General Outcome Measure of Growth in the Expressive Communication of Infants and Toddlers.
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Luze, Gayle J.; Linebarger, Deborah L.; Greenwood, Charles R.; Carta, Judith J.; Walker, Dale; Leitschuh, Carol; Atwater, Jane B. – School Psychology Review, 2001
Describes the development of an experimental measure for assessing growth in expressive communication in children from birth to 3 years of age Results from a sample of 50 infants and toddlers assessed monthly for 9 months in indicated that the measure displayed adequate psychometric properties of reliability and validity and was sensitive to…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Expressive Language, Infants, Measures (Individuals)