TOPIC: Early Intervention

The following reflects our most recent response for technical assistance related to this topic. This list represents a sample of information to get you started and is not meant to be exhaustive.
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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Introductory Packet

• Assessing to Address Barriers to Learning
• Affect and Mood Problems related to School Aged Youth
• Anxiety, Fears, Phobias, and Related Problems: Interventions and Resources for School Aged Youth
• Attention Problems: Intervention and Resources
• Conduct and Behavior Problems in School Aged Youth
• Least Intervention Needed: Toward Appropriate Inclusion of Students With Special Needs
• Social and Interpersonal Problems Related to School Aged Youth
• Transitions: Turning Risks into Opportunities for Student Support Youth

Resource Aid Packet


• Screening/Assessing Students: Indicators and Tools

Technical Assistance Sampler


• A Sampling of Outcome Findings from Interventions Relevant to Addressing Barriers to Learning

Quick Training Aid


• Assessment & Screening
• Attention Problems in School
• Behavior Problems at School
• Bullying Prevention
• Re-engaging Students in Learning
• School-based Crisis Intervention
• Violence Prevention

Training Tutorial


• Students & Family Assistance Programs and Services to Address Barriers to Learning

Continuing Education Module


• Enhancing Classroom Approaches for Addressing Barriers to Learning: Classroom-Focused Enabling

Guides to Practice -- Ideas into Practice


• Common Psychosocial Problems of School Aged Youth: Developmental Variations, Problems, Disorders and Perspectives for Prevention and Treatment

Newsletter


• Easing the Impact of Student Mobility: Welcoming & Social Support (Fall, '97)

Articles


• H.S. Adelman ,& L. Taylor (1998). Involving teachers in collaborative efforts to better address barriers to student learning. Special issue of Journal of Preventing School Failure, 42(2), 55-60
• H.S. Adelman & L. Taylor (1998). Mental Health in Schools: Moving Forward. School Psychology Review, 27(2), 175-190.
• Adelman, H.S. & Taylor, L. (1999). A School-wide Component to Address Barriers to Learning. Reading and Writing Quarterly, 15(4) 277-302.
• H.S. Adelman & L. Taylor (2000). Moving Prevention From the Fringes into the Fabric of School Improvement. Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation, 11(1), 7-36.
• L. Taylor & H.S. Adelman (2001). Enlisting Appropriate Parental Cooperation and Involvement in Children's Mental Health Treatment. The Mental Health Desk Reference, 31, 219-224.
• H.S. Adelman & L. Taylor (2002). Building Comprehensive, Multifaceted, and Integrated Approaches to Addressing Barriers to Student Learning. Childhood Education, 78(5), 261-268

Net Exchange


• Intervention Approaches (How to do it)
• Intervention Issues

General

Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk
• Children's Mental Health Plan (New York State Office of Mental Health)
• Commonly Asked Questions about Child Care Centers and the Americans with Disabilities Act
• Costs and Benefits of Early Childhood Intervention
• Developmental and behavioral needs and service use for young children in child welfare
• Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation: An Evaluation Toolkit
• ERIC/AE Digest: Early Childhood Program Research and Evaluation
• ERIC Digest: Effective Practices for Preparing Young Children with Disabilities for School
• Head Start Impact Study First Year Findings
• Info Sheet - Child and Adolescent Mental Health (from SAMHSA's National Mental Health Information Center)
• Keys to Inclusion
• More Than 115,000 Disadvantaged Preschoolers Received Mental Health Services
• Preparing for success: how Head Start helps children with disabilities and their families (2005) D. Ewen & K. Neas, Center for Law and Social Policy
• Fact Sheets on Early Childhood
• Funding Early Childhood Mental Health Services and Supports
• A Parent's Guide to Accessing Programs for Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers with Disabilities
• Success by ten:intervening early, often, and effectively in the education of young children
• Targeted Early Intervention Programs and Their Benefits
• "Use of Psychotropic Medications in Young, Preschool Children: Primum Non Nocere" (2003) -- PDF format
• "Wrap Around Care for Preschool Children" (2003) The New Jersey School-Age Care Coalition
• What is Early Intervention?
• You Recognize This Warning Sign, You Take Action - Can You Recognize a Problem with Your Child's Mental Health As Well

Policy, Guides, and Practices

• Child Find Screenings: A Guide for Parents
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health Policies and Plans Policy and Service Guidance Package
• Children's Readiness for School: Towards a Strategies Policy Framework (2002)
• IDEA Requirements for Preschoolers with Disabilities: IDEA Early Childhood Policy and Practice Guide
• Promising Practices in Early Childhood Mental Health
• Starting Early Starting Smart Program

Statistics and Information

• Chart of Typical Development
• Early Warning Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools
• New Mexico Early Child Find
• 22nd Annual Report to Congress on the Implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Act. (esp. Section II: Student Characteristics)
• SAMHSA Report on Mental Health Spending in the U.S.

• Early Intervention Services
• Transactional Regulation and Early Intervention
• Toward Family-Supportive Community Schools: Nine Strategies that Connect School Reform with Other Change Initiatives for Vulnerable Children, Youth, Families, and Their Comm.

• Early Childhood Research Institute on Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS)
• Early Intervention Research Institute at Utah State University
• Early Intervention Technical Assistance (EITA) in Pennsylvania
• Family Village - Early Intervention Resources
• First Steps - Indiana's Early Intervention Program
• Kids Together, Inc.
• The National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities
• National Early Childhood Technical Assistance System (NEC*TAS)
• National Head Start Association
• Zero To Three

• Best Practices in Early Intervention Design. By, D.W. Barnett & K. E. Ehrhardt (1995). Best Practices in School Psychology-III.
• Ecological Foundations of Early Intervention: Planned Activities and Strategic Sampling. By D.W. Barnett, F.E. Lentz, A.M. Bauer, G. Macmann, S.A. Stollar & K.E. Ehrhardt. (1997). Journal of Special Education, 30, 471-490.
• Evaluating Early Intervention: Accountability Methods for Service Delivery Innovations - Statistical Data Included. By David Barnett, Amy Pepiton, Susan Bell, Christine Gilkey, Jacqueline Smith, Candace Stone, Karin Nelson, Kelly Maples Kristen Helenbrook, and Laurel Vogel. (Fall, 1999). Journal of Special Education.
• Screening, Early Identification, and Office-based Intervention With Children and Youth Living in Substance-abusing Families. By Mark Werner, Alain Joffee, & Antonnette Graham. (May, 1999). Pediatrics.

If you haven't done so, you may want to contact our sister center, the Center for School Mental Health at the University of Maryland at Baltimore.

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