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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 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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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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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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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 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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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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Children at risk: Identification and intervention A discussion of three longitudinal studies exploring demographics and family predictors of developmental disabilities and the impact of early intervention programs on preventing developmental disabilities |
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Children with disabilities in early elementary school A chapter overview of research surrounding transition to Kindergarten drawn for children with disabilities |
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Children with special needs in North Carolina child care programs: October 1, 2005–June 30, 2006 A study of the enrollment of children with special needs in licensed child care programs in North Carolina as of October 31, 2005, with statewide and county analyses by child's age and provider type, based on a survey of child care providers |
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Children with special needs in North Carolina child care programs: October 1, 2007?June 30, 2008 A study of the enrollment of children with special needs in licensed child care programs in North Carolina as of October 31, 2007, with statewide and county analyses by child's age and provider type, based on a survey of child care providers |
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Children with special needs in North Carolina child care programs: Survey report: October 1, 2003?September 30, 2004 A study of the enrollment of children with special needs in licensed child care programs in North Carolina as of October 31, 2003, with statewide and county analyses by child's age and provider type, based on a survey of child care providers |
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Classroom quality, concentration of children with special needs, and child outcomes in Head Start An examination of the relations among child care quality, the concentration abilities of young children with special needs, and the social development outcomes of participation in Head Start |
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Closing the gap: Culture and the promotion of inclusion in child care A paper using examples from the Models of Inclusion in Child Care project to examine the relation between paying attention to families' cultural backgrounds and early child care programs' ability in supplying inclusive care for children with special needs |
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A comparative case study of three preschool sites to explore how four year old children demonstrate their literacy knowledge and how their teachers take advantage of this knowledge in their classrooms An observational study of three different preschools serving Head Start children, children with special needs, and upper income children respectively, to examine how the children viewed their own literacy skills and how their teachers incorporated the children's literacy knowledge into classroom practices and activities |
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Conceptualisations of disability and inclusion: Perspectives of educators of young children A study of beliefs about disability and inclusion held by 2 elementary school teachers and 2 early childhood educators in Ontario, Canada |
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Contextual factors affecting inclusion during children’s transitions from preschool to school An examination and comparison of social roles and social inclusion among Down Syndrome and typically-developing boys during their transitions from child care to school, based on qualitative observations of four boys and interviews with their parents and teachers at several stages of the transition process |
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Contextual factors influencing the sociability of preschool children with disabilities in integrated and segregated classrooms An examination of the effect of classroom environments on the social competency of preschool children with special needs, comparing the effects of integrated classrooms with the effects of segregated classrooms |
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Conversations in child care An information brief on how to enhance young children's conversations: recommendations on how to help them ask questions, think ideas through, use new words, connect with peers, work with peers in groups, encourage conversation for children with special needs, and create settings for conversation and play |
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Co-operating with student teachers in research on inclusion in preschool and the first grades of school A controlled study of the peer social activity and amount of adult attention given to children with special needs in inclusive settings in preschool and primary grades, based on observations and interviews with children and teachers |
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