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ABLE: A system for mental health screening and care for preschool children A proposal of a tool for the early detection of behavioral and emotional problems in special needs children |
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Access, participation, and supports: A framework for improving inclusive early education opportunities for children with disabilities A summary of research literature and information from the joint Division for Early Childhood/National Association for the Education of Young Children (DEC/NAEYC; 2009) position statement identifying specific educational practices that promote access, participation, and supports for young children with disabilities and their families |
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Access to Quality Child Care in Montana: Exploring Parent and Provider Perspectives An examination of the capacity of Montana's child care system to serve Native American families and rural families of children with disabilities. The study focuses on issues of access, supply, and demand, and seeks to determine whether the availability of child care services is substantially different for Native American children and children with disabilities than for other families. Methodology includes parent and provider surveys as well as on-site assessment of child care programs. |
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The acquisition of literacy: Reframing definitions, paradigms, ideologies, and practices A discussion of a contextual theory of literacy acquisition, which views literacy as related to an individual's construction of self and environment |
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After-school programs in Koreatown, Los Angeles, California An exploration of after school programs in Koreatown in Los Angeles, examining what constitutes a program, why parents send their children, and why children attend these programs |
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Analysis of a mentoring program to change attitudes related to turnover of special needs teachers A qualitative study of teachers' reasons for turnover, perceptions of successful program components, ideas for program implementation, and feedback on a pilot teacher mentoring program from semi-structured interviews with 5 newly-hired teachers in a preschool for autistic students in the 2008-2009 school year |
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Assembly Bill 553: Limited english proficient pre-kindergarten pilot program: 2008 evaluation report An evaluation of the Limited English Proficient (LEP) Pre-Kindergarten Pilot Program in Nevada in 2008, based on data on program funding, the population served, implementation, and participant outcomes |
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Assembly Bill 553: Limited english proficient pre-kindergarten pilot program: 2008 evaluation report [Executive summary] An evaluation of the Limited English Proficient (LEP) Pre-Kindergarten Pilot Program in Nevada in 2008, based on data on program funding, the population served, implementation, and participant outcomes |
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Assessing all children An overview of research on select appropriateness and bias issues surrounding the use of national assessments with young children from racial or language minority groups or who have special needs |
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Assessing preschoolers' self-regulation in homes and classrooms: Lessons from the field A pilot study of the Games As Measurement for Early Self-Control (GAMES) method for assessing preschool children’s ability to control their attention span and inhibitions, based on a sample of 71 children in a Head Start program |
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Assessing Spanish-English bilingual preschoolers: A guide to best approaches and measures A guide to early childhood bilingual assessment and a review of 37 developmental assessments available in English and Spanish |
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Assistive technology user group perspectives of early childhood professionals An examination of efficacy of participatiing in a series of Assistive Technology user groups from semi-structured interviews with 10 teachers at an early childhood center in a Midwestern city |
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Becoming biliterate: Young children learning different writing systems A discussion of the advantages of biliteracy and the complexities of the knowledge, connections and creativity that young children use in the process of becoming biliterate |
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Bilingualism is not the arithmetic sum of two languages A discussion of issues related to the education of young children who are learning two languages simultaneously |
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A case study examination of culturally relevant pedagogical practices for English-language learners in a pre-kindergarten classroom setting A qualitative study of culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP) in a prekindergarten classroom for English-language learners and an investigation of the ways 2 teachers promote academic success, cultural competence and critical consciousness, based on documentation from and observations of a classroom in Georgia |
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Center-based child care and preschoolers with disruptive behaviors: Factors influencing organizational capacity for inclusion An examination of factors influencing the organizational capacity of center-based child care centers to include preschool children with disruptive behaviors using a cross sectional survey of 200 center based child care directors in 3 counties in Southwestern Pennsylvania |
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Characteristics of effective collaboration among innovative early childhood intervention programs A qualitative study of collaboration and communication processes between early childhood intervention programs and the families and the community, based on a survey and observations of two sites serving a low-income, high needs population |
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Child Care and Children with Special Needs: Challenges for Low Income Families This project was a mixed-method, multi-level study of low income families of children with special needs and the system which serves them, focusing primarily on child care, employment and balancing work and family. In the first year of the study, qualitative research was conducted to learn directly from parents about their experiences. In the second and third years, a field study of three communities was conducted as well as statewide surveys and analysis of national data bases to supplement the data collected in the first year. |
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Child-care and early education: Policy problems and options: Latino Caucus Retreat A briefing paper articulating basic problems confronting system of childcare and early education for Latino working families in California and policy recommendations to address those problems |
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Child Care and Special Needs Children: Challenges for Low-income Families A study of child care for children with special needs that also examines related issues of welfare reform and coordination with early intervention services at the community level. The research is based on focus groups and in-depth interviews with low income parents of children with special needs in six communities in Maine and Connecticut, as well as interviews with welfare caseworkers, early intervention case managers, child care providers, and low-wage employees, to provide a context for parents' perspectives. Surveys of 189 child care providers and 441 parents of children with special needs in Maine was conducted as well as a secondary analysis of data from a sample of families with children with special needs drawn from the National Survey of America's Families. |
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Child care and work challenges for Maine's parents of children with special needs An examination of child care and work issues for parents of children with special needs from focus groups and interviews with parents, child care providers, and other professionals involved with service delivery and a presentation of several strategies Maine has developed to address them |
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Child care characteristics of infants with and without special needs: Comparisons and concerns [Abridged] A study of employment and child care characteristics, concerns, and problems in a sample of 166 families with children with diagnosed disabilities by 12 months old, as compared to a sample of 139 typically developing children and their families from the Seattle site of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care |
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Child Care Choices of Low-Income Families with Vulnerabilities This project explores the ways in which low-income, vulnerable families choose child care. The goal is to identify the family characteristics and contextual factors that expand or limit child care choices. The three-year project takes place in several low-income, urban communities participating in the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Making Connections initiative. The sites are Oakland, Providence, Seattle, and Denver. The focus is on vulnerable families, including families who have children with special needs, parents who are English language learners or immigrants, parents receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), and children at risk of maltreatment. The research includes a family study and a community study. The family study includes two rounds of field-based, semi-structured interviews with parents regarding their decision-making processes related to child care. The community study, which takes place between the two rounds of family interviews, includes interviews with key community members regarding the community and policy contexts that affect child care choices. The following research questions are addressed: (1) What factors influence choice of care among low-income working families in a diverse set of urban neighborhoods? How do different families with particular vulnerabilities make child care choices?; (2) How do child care choice processes of parents overall, and particularly families who have special vulnerabilities, interact with several key contextual factors (e.g., job options, local policies and programs)?; and (3) What family characteristics or contextual factors seem to particularly expand or constrain the child care choices of low-income families overall, and the lives of vulnerable families in particular? Which of these seem amenable to policy strategies to support choices for low-income working families, and what should these strategies be? |
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Childcare, multiculturalism, and welfare state regimes: Policy and practice in the United Kingdom and Sweden A study of the policy and practice of multiculturalism as well as speech activities in preschool and primary classrooms in 3 minority school districts in London and in Stockholm, from interviews with one academic expert, one national official, three local officials, and 22 public school teachers or administrators in each country, as well as classroom observations |
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Child care needs, arrangements, and satisfaction of mothers of children with developmental disabilities A review of the constraints and types of child care arrangements used by mothers of five-year-old children with development disabilities |
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