Background The production of speech, language and gesture for communication is often
affected by cerebral palsy. Communication difficulties associated with cerebral palsy can be …

Purpose The primary purpose of this article is to provide a closer look at the individualization
process whereby early childhood professionals ensure that the individualized learning …

This paper reports on the effects of two types of parent-focused intervention, for parents of
children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) aged 2–4 years and within 6 months of …

Growing evidence suggests the importance of practitioners implementing promotion,
prevention, and intervention practices to foster children's social-emotional competence and …

Parent training has been shown to be a very effective method for promoting generalization
and maintenance of skills in children with autism. However, despite its well-established …

We examined the effects of a professional development intervention that included data-
based performance feedback delivered via electronic mail (e-mail) on preschool teachers' …

In this study, traditional incidental teaching was modified and a new naturalized parent
training speech program, modified incidental teaching sessions (MITS), was designed. We …

A family-centered approach to the support of families with a young child with an intellectual
or developmental disability has been widely adopted in the last decade. While some of the …

Purpose In this study, the authors evaluated the effects of Enhanced Milieu Teaching (EMT;
Hancock & Kaiser, 2006) blended with Joint Attention, Symbolic Play, and Emotional …

An adapted alternating treatment design was used to measure the effectiveness of constant
time delay and simultaneous prompting procedures within an embedded instruction format …