Implementing Early Intervention: From Research To Effective Practice - Hardcover

Bryant.

 
9780898622478: Implementing Early Intervention: From Research To Effective Practice

Synopsis

Public and private institutions are urging reform in the ways in which we serve children. The passage of Public Law 99-457 Part H. has been impetus for major philosophical shifts in attitude regarding early intervention. This book identifies indicators of quality early intervention and synthesizes this knowledge in the most up-to-date form. It covers the most current thinking of researchers who are experienced and knowledgeable in each of the major areas of early intervention. This book will be of interest to school practitioners, child psychologists and all mental health clinicians involved in early intervention.

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About the Author

Donna Bryant, Ph.D., is the Director of Family and Child Care Research Program at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center at the University of North Carolina. The Center is a fully inclusive model of family-focused, educational child care that serves 62 children from infancy to age 5. Other ongoing projects include a study of Head Start to public school transitions, a community-based demonstration of home- and center-based intervention for infants from disadvantaged families, and an evalution of North Carolina'a new initiatives to enhance child care and family services.

Mimi A. Graham, Ed.D., is Associate Professor in Research at Florida State University's Center for Prevention and Early Intervention Policy, where she conducts policy research on at-risk infants and toddlers and their families. A designer of instructional training modules, she has conducted "Train the Trainer" workshops statewide on early intervention issues. She began her career as a Head Start Director in rural Virginia and served as principal of the Mailman Center for Child Development/Debbie School at the University of Miami Medical School. She was Education Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Miami site of the National Collaborative Infant Health and Development Program and is currently Project Director of a Florida replication of that study through the Centers for Disease Control.

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