Promoting Use of Effective Early Intervention Programs

促进有效的早期干预计划的使用

• 批准号: 7670012
• 负责人: Luba Botcheva
• 金额: $ 39.92万
• 依托单位: SOCIOMETRICS CORPORATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-03-01 至 2011-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7670012
• 关键词: Adopted; Age; Archives; Child; Classification; Community Services; County; Decision Making; Development; Developmental Delay Disorders; Developmental Disabilities; Early treatment; Education; Effectiveness; Ensure; Evaluation; Faculty; Family; Feedback; Goals; Grant; Individual; Institutes; Institution; Intervention; Knowledge; Lead; Leadership; Learning; Location; Manuals; Marketing; Master' s Degree; Methods; Modality; Pathway interactions; Phase; Philosophy; Policy Making; Population; Positioning Attribute; Preparation; Prevention program; Process; Public Health; Research; Resources; Risk; Science; Secure; Services; Site; Source; Specialist; Testing; Training; Training and Education; Work; base; commercialization; design; disability; early childhood; effective intervention; experience; innovation; instrument; intervention program; meetings; programs; prototype; public health relevance; research and development; research study; teacher; text searching; therapy development; usability; web site

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There is now strong scientific support for the widespread implementation of proven, effective early intervention programs for young children with, or at risk for, developmental disability. However, in practice, programs that lack demonstrated effectiveness are often implemented, undermining the impact of early intervention. The long-term goal of the current project is to increase the likelihood that children ages 0-5 years with or at risk for developmental disability receive effective intervention services. To this end, the specific aims of the proposed Phase II work will be to fully develop and make ready for commercial dissemination three products for which prototypes already exist from R&D completed in Phase I and from prior successful Sociometrics products. The central product is the Early Intervention Program Archive to Reduce Developmental Disability (EIPARDD), which will consist of complete replication kits of all necessary materials (e.g., manuals, workbooks) to implement and evaluate an empirically-supported intervention. Interventions included in EIPARDD were identified through a comprehensive scientific literature search and extensive evaluation by an independent Expert Panel in Phase I. Access to 12 empirically-supported intervention programs was secured in Phase I, and a prototype kit for one EIPARDD program was constructed and favorably evaluated by consumers. The specific aim for Phase II is to make all materials for each program in EIPARDD ready for commercial distribution by the end of the grant period. The other two products enhance the use of EIPARDD by (1) facilitating the selection of the appropriate empirically-supported intervention program for a given need (including those not available as replication kits), through an online Early Intervention Program Selection Resource; and (2) promoting program fidelity and evaluation through a set of Early Intervention Program Implementation and Evaluation Tutorials that offer generalized and program- tailored implementation and evaluation information in online and USB flash drive formats. Specific Phase II aims are to make these two ancillary products ready for commercial distribution by the end of the grant period. Technical usability testing and consumer feedback will be used extensively throughout the process to ensure that all final products meet the needs of early intervention professionals. In addition, a mixed-method research study will be conducted to investigate the fidelity of implementing effective early intervention programs in new sites. The replication kits will be marketed to early intervention decision-makers at local, state and regional levels. The commercial market for these products is substantial with over 102,000 professionals working in early intervention under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) Parts B and C, serving nearly one million children ages 0-5 years. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The EIPARDD and its associated products will promote public health in two key ways. It will: (1) offer more young children with or at risk of developmental delay and their families efficacious early intervention services, by providing EI decision-makers with an array of efficacious EI programs from which to easily and affordably select, implement, adapt, and evaluate their efforts as they deliver EI services, and (2) prepare current and aspiring EI specialists about effective EI programs for children with or at risk of developmental delays by offering early childhood faculty and trainers accessible and interactive research-based information for use in pre-service preparation, staff orientation, staff training. More widespread use, adaptation, and evaluation of efficacious EI programs for children with or at risk for developmental delay, and more highly skilled EI professionals, should be the result.

描述(由申请人提供)：现在有强有力的科学支持，广泛实施经过验证的、有效的早期干预计划，用于患有或有发展障碍风险的幼儿。然而，在实践中，缺乏被证明有效的计划经常被实施，削弱了早期干预的影响。目前项目的长期目标是增加0-5岁有发育障碍或有发育障碍风险的儿童获得有效干预服务的可能性。为此，拟议的第二阶段工作的具体目标将是充分开发和准备好商业传播的三种产品，这些产品的原型已经存在于第一阶段完成的研发中，并来自以前成功的社会计量产品。核心产品是减少发育障碍的早期干预计划档案(EIPARDD)，它将包括所有必要材料(如手册、工作簿)的完整复制工具包，以实施和评估经验性干预。在第一阶段，通过全面的科学文献搜索和独立专家小组的广泛评估，确定了EIPARDD中包含的干预措施。在第一阶段，确保了12个经验性支持的干预计划的使用，并为一个EIPARDD计划构建了原型试剂盒，并得到了消费者的积极评价。第二阶段的具体目标是在授权期结束前使EIPARDD中每个项目的所有材料都准备好进行商业分发。其他两款产品通过以下方式加强了EIPARDD的使用：(1)通过在线早期干预计划选择资源，促进为特定需求选择适当的经验性支持的干预计划(包括那些未作为复制工具包提供的干预计划)；以及(2)通过一套早期干预计划实施和评估教程，促进计划的保真度和评估，这些教程以在线和USB闪存驱动器格式提供通用的和针对计划定制的实施和评估信息。第二阶段的具体目标是在授权期结束前使这两种辅助产品准备好进行商业分销。在整个过程中，将广泛使用技术可用性测试和消费者反馈，以确保所有最终产品满足早期干预专业人员的需求。此外，将进行一项混合方法的研究，以调查在新地点实施有效的早期干预计划的保真度。复制试剂盒将向地方、州和地区各级的早期干预决策者销售。这些产品的商业市场很大，根据联邦残疾人教育法(IDEA)B和C部分，有超过102,000名专业人员从事早期干预工作，为近100万0-5岁儿童提供服务。公共卫生相关性：EIPARDD及其相关产品将在两个关键方面促进公共卫生。它将：(1)为更多有发育迟缓或有发育迟缓风险的幼儿及其家人提供有效的早期干预服务，为教育投资决策者提供一系列有效的教育投资计划，以便在提供教育投资服务时轻松、实惠地选择、实施、调整和评估他们所做的努力，以及(2)通过为幼儿教师和培训人员提供可访问和互动的基于研究的信息，使其能够在职前准备、工作人员定向和员工培训中使用，从而培养现有的和有抱负的教育投资专家，为有发展迟缓或有发育迟缓风险的儿童提供有效的教育投资计划。结果应该是为有发育迟缓或有发育迟缓风险的儿童和更高技能的EI专业人员更广泛地使用、适应和评估有效的EI计划。