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Louisiana Department of Education, 2022
The "Developmental Screening Guidebook" is designed as a reference guide on how to best support healthy growth and development of children throughout key developmental intervals and identify children who may benefit from specialized support. Early childhood program staff, service providers, health care systems, families, and communities…
Descriptors: Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Screening Tests
Louisiana Department of Education, 2020
This guidebook is designed as a reference guide on how to best support healthy growth and development of children throughout key developmental intervals and identify children who may benefit from specialized support. Early childhood program staff, service providers, health care systems, families, and communities all play important roles in…
Descriptors: Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Screening Tests
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Matson, Johnny L.; Mahan, Sara; Sipes, Megan; Kozlowski, Alison M. – Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2010
Comorbid psychopathology and challenging behaviors often occur among persons with developmental disabilities. However, little attention to this issue has been reported in young children. In this study, individuals 17 through 36 months of age with varying diagnoses, such as intellectual disability, developmental delay, and Down syndrome, among…
Descriptors: Self Destructive Behavior, Autism, Down Syndrome, Young Children
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Hunter, Teri – Early Child Development and Care, 2002
Describes the collaboration between and among classroom teachers and the preschool learning specialist (PLS) in an independent school in Louisiana. Details the PLS's role, which involves identifying and supporting individual learning strengths and weaknesses, providing direct remediation and enrichment, offering technical support, performing…
Descriptors: Consultants, Cooperation, Early Intervention, Elementary Education
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Fewell, Rebecca R.; And Others – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1991
The article describes Louisiana's approach to implementing Individualized Family Service Plans, including four model formats developed by early intervention service providers and families of young children with disabilities. Formats differ in the way the required elements are expressed, allowing application to the unique characteristics of…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Early Intervention, Family Programs
Smith, Barbara J. – 2002
This final report describes the objectives, activities and outcomes of a federally funded initiative to train and assist early childhood interagency teams in a model of planning systems and services for all young children, including children with disabilities and other special needs. The project is based on the value of stakeholder ownership in…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Programs, Coordination, Disabilities