The results provided some initial evidence that the FLY program was
an effective early intervention program in promoting child learning.
Realizing the Promise of Well - Being: Longitudinal Research From
an Effective Early Intervention Program for Substance Exposed Babies and Toddlers Identifies Essential Components Katz, Ullery, & Lederman (2014) Juvenile and Family Court Journal, 65 (2) View Abstract Describes the growing need for early intervention services as well as the results of one successful early intervention - court partnership.
Specific strategies for targeted purposes, such as
effective early intervention programs designed to identify at - risk students;
Given the deleterious outcomes associated with EBP, as well as the staggering public health costs that accompany special education placements (Pelham et al. 2007), significant efforts have been made towards developing
effective early intervention programs.
Not exact matches
Effective Early Childhood Development
Programs for Low - Income Families: Home Visiting
Interventions During Pregnancy and
Early Childhood.
Identifying core components of
interventions found to be
effective and understanding what it takes to implement those components with fidelity to the
program model is critical to successful replication and scale - up of
effective programs and practices in different community contexts and populations.7 There is growing recognition in the
early childhood field of the importance of
effective implementation and the need for implementation research that can guide adoption, initial implementation, and ongoing improvement of
early childhood
interventions.8, 9,10 The promise of implementation research and using data to drive
program management is compelling because it offers a potential solution to the problem of persistent gaps in outcomes between at - risk children and their more well - off peers.
Early intervention allows ineffective remedial
programs to be replaced with
effective prevention while providing older students who continue to need services with enhanced instruction so they can return to the educational mainstream.
For instance, I directed a national Head Start Quality Research Center; created a
program, Dialogic Reading (which is a widely used and
effective intervention for enhancing the language development and book knowledge of young children from low - income families); and authored an assessment tool, the Get Ready to Read Screen, that has become a staple of
early intervention program evaluation.
In the 25 years since the passage of Public Law 94 - 142, significant progress has been made toward meeting major national goals for developing and implementing
effective programs and services for
early intervention, special education, and related services.
During interviews, teachers and / or principals in three of the four most
effective schools cited a yearlong staff development effort related to their
early intervention program as responsible for their success, indicating that it helped them «stay in a learner mode,» and «all be of one accord.»
During the start of this 21st century, specific initiatives have focused on investing in preschool
programs, engaging parents as partners in education, building positive and caring relationships, monitoring the progress of the students
early on, and developing
effective intervention plans addressing their needs.
The learnings presented in this report not only point to the efficacy of the e-reader
intervention for improving
early grade literacy skills and increasing access to books, but also provide insights towards a way forward that will allow Worldreader and partners to reach more students, in more corners of Ghana and sub-Saharan Africa, with cost -
effective and impactful digital reading
programs.
As
early childhood
programs across the country consider whether and how to implement Response to
Intervention (RTI), it is important for practitioners and administrators to get reliable, up - to - date information to ensure that RTI practices are appropriate and
effective for young children.
A team of British researchers has recently completed a review of parenting education
programs that isolates a number of
effective components.69
Early intervention, for example, results in better and more durable outcomes for children, though late
intervention is better than none and may help parents deal with parenting under stress.
Home - visitation
programs can be an
effective early -
intervention strategy to improve the health and well - being of children, particularly if they are embedded in comprehensive community services to families at risk.4 Home - visitation
programs are not a panacea, sufficient unto themselves to reverse or prevent the damaging effects on children of poverty and inadequate or inexperienced parenting.
Reviews of EBHV
programs find that
early intervention at the prenatal stage, high intensity
intervention, and requiring high parental involvement are the most
effective elements involved in protective strategies (Park, 2008).
But it is also driven by the need to address poverty and disadvantage as an underlying cause of crime and imprisonment, and a need to focus on
early intervention programs particularly for at - risk young people, as an extremely cost
effective way to reduce crime.
However, for both child abuse and parent stress, the average effect sizes were not different from zero, suggesting a lack of evidence for effects in these areas.108
Earlier meta - analytic reviews have also noted the lack of sizable effects in preventing child maltreatment — again citing the different intensity of surveillance of families in the treatment versus control groups as an explanation (though the authors did report that home visiting was associated with an approximately 25 percent reduction in the rate of childhood injuries).109 Another review focusing on the quality of the home environment also found evidence for a significant overall effect of home - visiting
programs.110 More recently, Harriet MacMillan and colleagues published a review of
interventions to prevent child maltreatment, and identified the Nurse - Family Partnership and
Early Start
programs as the most
effective with regard to preventing maltreatment and childhood injuries.
Highlights the findings and lessons learned that pertain to two broad arenas: how to better plan and implement
effective intervention strategies in the first 5 years of life and how understanding changing and diverse developmental trajectories can contribute to more
effective early childhood
programs and the public policies that shape them.
Effective Early Childhood Development
Programs for Low - Income Families: Home Visiting
Interventions During Pregnancy and
Early Childhood.
Parental over - involvement / protection (i.e., shielding from natural challenges in life) and / or harsh discipline (i.e., smacking and yelling) predict young children's internalising symptoms.19, 24 Therefore the main goal of
early intervention and prevention
programs is to develop parents» skills to identify and respond to their child's emotionally distressed behaviours in
effective ways.
These relationships will underpin
effective referral practises with both local service providers (for example, family support agencies, community welfare and crisis services,
early intervention services, Children's Contact Services, Parenting Orders
Programs and other family dispute resolution services) and national services (for example, Child Support Agency and Centrelink).
The quantitative and qualitative data in the
Early Intervention study come from surveys administered to nearly 7,000 youth who participated in research - based RE
programs at high schools across California, during which they completed developmentally appropriate RE curricula in subjects including the characteristics of healthy vs. unhealthy relationships; empathic listening;
effective confrontation; problem - solving skills; and conflict management.
The results suggest that
early interventions may be especially
effective for disadvantaged children in developing countries, and reinforce the value of high - quality home visiting
programs for disadvantaged children in the United States.
She leads several
intervention studies on these and related topics, including federally funded research
programs that are identifying
effective methods to decrease disruptive behaviors across home and school and uncovering important strategies to support families and teachers in
early childhood
interventions.
Finally, future studies are needed to examine aspects of the training process and host systems that affect the ability of
early childhood
programs to provide sustained and
effective use of preventive
interventions for child aggression.
Additionally, meta - analytic work has demonstrated that
early intervention programs with fewer treatment sessions are more
effective than those with a higher number of treatment sessions (Bakermans - Kranenburg et al. 2003).
Areas of interest for future research include more detailed evaluation of
early intervention programs with specific reference to which children benefit the most, which components are particularly useful, whether individual or group
interventions are more
effective and whether children's attendance significantly improves outcome as compared to parent - only
interventions