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Direct linkGarcía-Grau, Pau; Martínez-Rico, Gabriel; McWilliam, R. A.; Grau, Dolores – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2021
Despite an emphasis on family-centered practices in early intervention, the translation of this philosophy into practice is unclear. We, therefore, measured practices of 250 early intervention service providers in Spain, with the Families in Natural Environments Scale of Service Evaluation. We analyzed the "difficulty" of practices,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Intervention, Family Involvement, Family Needs
Ridgley, Robyn; Snyder, Patricia A.; McWilliam, R. A.; Davis, Jacqueline E. – Infants and Young Children, 2011
We describe a targeted professional development (PD) intervention designed to improve the quality of individualized family service plans (IFSPs) and to support IFSP planning, development, and decision making. The theoretical and empirical foundations for the PD intervention and its key components are reviewed. Building on an established online…
Descriptors: Individualized Family Service Plans, Intervention, Data Collection, Professional Development
McWilliam, R. A.; Casey, Amy M.; Sims, Jessica – Infants and Young Children, 2009
There are multiple ways to gather information from families receiving early intervention services (J. J. Woods & D. P. Lindeman, 2008). In this article, we discuss a specific strategy for doing this through information-gathering conversations with families. The routines-based interview (RBI; R. A. McWilliam, 1992, 2005a) was developed to meet a…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Interviews, Data Collection, Family Programs
Boavida, Tania; Aguiar, Cecilia; McWilliam, R. A.; Pimentel, Julia Serpa – Infants and Young Children, 2010
Individualized education programs (IEPs) are a fundamental mechanism for making special education services unique for the child and for enhancing the developmental outcomes of children with disabilities. If written IEP goals diverge, however, from recommended practices, they might result in ineffective interventions. This study investigated the…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, Preschool Children, Disabilities, Foreign Countries
Rantala, Anja; Uotinen, Sanna; McWilliam, R. A. – Infants and Young Children, 2009
The purposes of this study were to determine the state of current practice in early intervention in Finland and to compare them to American data. Professional women (N = 52), representing child care, elementary school, healthcare, and social work, completed the Families in Natural Environments Scale of Service Evaluation, a 34-item questionnaire…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Social Work
Peer reviewedMcWilliam, R. A.; de Kruif, Renee E. L.; Zulli, Rebecca A. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2002
This study observed the different ways in which 11 child care teachers constructed "teaching" in a high-quality program that included children with disabilities. Qualitative analysis revealed that teaching could be conceptualized as comprising four contexts consisting of a range of behaviors, practices, or beliefs about teaching: environmental,…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Care, Child Caregivers, Classroom Environment
