Child care and children with special needs: Challenges for low income families: Final report

Author(s): Ward, Helen D.; Morris, Lisa M.; Atkins, Julie A.; Herrick, Angela; Morris, Patricia; Oldham, Erin;
Date Issued: December, 2006
Publisher(s): Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service. Institute for Child and Family Policy
Description: A multi-method study, focusing predominantly on Maine, of the challenges and barriers facing low-income working families with special needs children in finding and retaining child care services and in balancing work and family, based on parent interviews and focus groups, a field study, a child care provider survey, a parent survey, and an analysis of data from the 1997, 1999, and 2002 rounds of the National Survey of America's Families
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Funder(s): United States. Child Care Bureau
Source: Portland, ME: Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service, Institute for Child and Family Policy. Retrieved July 26, 2006 from http://muskie.usm.maine.edu/specialneeds/PDFs/B&Wfinalwithcover.pdf
Topics: Children & Child Development > Special Needs Children & Special Child Populations > Special Needs

Parents & Families
Country: United States
States: CONNECTICUT, MAINE
ISBN: 978-0-9708327-4-0 : Unspecified
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