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Lee, Supawadee Cindy – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2023
The Developmental Screening, Monitoring, and Enrichment (DSME) program for low-income children and families is an initiative developed to support the goal of the Healthy People 2020 and 2030 that aims to increase the number of healthy young children to be ready for school. The 8-week DSME program focuses on reducing health disparities and…
Descriptors: Young Children, Enrichment Activities, Early Intervention, Access to Health Care
King, Marika; Larson, Anne L.; Buzhardt, Jay – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2022
Few, if any, reliable and valid screening tools exist to identify language delay in young Spanish-English speaking dual-language learners (DLLs). The early communication indicator (ECI) is a brief, naturalistic measure of expressive communication development designed to inform intervention decision-making and progress monitoring for infants and…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Bilingual Education, Communication Skills, Infants
Start Early, 2024
The Shaping Futures Together agenda highlights policies and investments that families and practitioners say will ensure all children thrive. This playbook provides recommended policy and research strategies that Start Early believes will help to realize those priorities. Each section includes legislative and administrative policy recommendations…
Descriptors: Young Children, Child Health, Birth, Family Environment
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Cerny, Shana; Reishus, Jessica; Robinson, Wade; Beckman, Shelby; Buse, Erin; Sebastian, Reina; Smith, Jaimie – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2022
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of occupational therapy group intervention using Trust Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI®) Nurture Groups© on preschool children's social, emotional, and behavioral development in a Head Start program. This study used a retrospective mixed method, quasi-experimental design with non-equivalent…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Social Emotional Learning, Occupational Therapy
Michael T. Sanders; Janet A. Welsh; Karen L. Bierman; Brenda S. Heinrichs – Grantee Submission, 2020
Two hundred ninety-four children from low-income families (58% White, 17% Latinx, 25% Black; 54% girls; M[subscript age] = 4.49 years old at study entry) were recruited from Head Start classrooms to participate in a randomized-controlled trial of the project REDI (Research-based, Developmentally Informed) preschool intervention and then followed…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Early Intervention, At Risk Persons, Program Effectiveness