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Bug-in-Ear Coaching: Impacts on Early Childhood Educators' Practices and Associations with Toddlers' Expressive Communication
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Ottley, Jennifer Riggie; Hanline, Mary Frances – Journal of Early Intervention, 2014
Many early childhood educators struggle to meet the communication needs of children with delays and disabilities. The purpose of this study was to examine the functional relation between bug-in-ear coaching and the frequency of educators' correct use of targeted communication strategies, as well as associations with children's expressive…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Educational Practices, Coaching (Performance)
Important Distinctions in Measuring Maternal Responses to Communication in Prelinguistic Children with Disabilities.
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Yoder, Paul J.; McCathren, Rebecca B.; Warren, Steven F.; Watson, Amy L. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2001
Receptive language, prelinguistic communication, maternal responses, vocabulary level, and expressive language were measured at six-month intervals for 58 young children with disabilities or developmental delays and their primary caretakers. Results supported the importance of caregivers responding differentially to preintentional and intentional…
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Developmental Delays, Disabilities, Expressive Language
Program Evaluation Findings of an Intensive Early Intervention Program.
Fewell, Rebecca R.; Glick, Michelle P. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1996
An intensive early intervention program was evaluated by assessing gains made by 44 special needs children (age 2) in cognition, gross motor, fine motor, receptive language, and expressive language domains. Comparison of actual to predicted posttest scores did not reveal significant gains in any domains. In cognition, gross motor, and fine motor…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Disabilities, Early Intervention
Speech and Language Development: What You Can Do To Help. A Series for Caregivers of Infants and Toddlers. Model of Interdisciplinary Training for Children with Handicaps: MITCH Module 2.
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Monroe County School District, Key West, FL. – 1990
Intended for use in Florida training programs for caregivers of infants and toddlers with disabilities, this guide presents an overview of the Model of Interdisciplinary Training for Children with Handicaps (MITCH); provides a user's guide to the series; and presents specific information for presenting Module 2, which focuses on speech and…
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Child Caregivers, Child Development, Cognitive Development