Prevention, Assessment, Referral, Training
for Adopted Infants and Toddlers
U.S. Department of Education
Office of Special Education Programs
Professor Gerald Mahoney
Principal Investigator
There is considerable evidence that children who are adopted are at great risk (because of various pre-adoptive experiences) for developmental and social-emotional difficulties that would make them eligible for special education services. Nonetheless, even though a high percentage of foster children currently participate in early intervention, children who are adopted are under-referred.
We propose to develop a Prevention, Assessment, Referral and Transition model that can be used by public and private adoption agencies as well as early intervention programs as a means to identify developmental problems, provide time limited intervention services early in the adjustment period of young adoptees, and transition adopted children to formal services
This project will implement and demonstrate this model with a sample of 80 adopted children and their parents. Adoptive amilies will receive intervention through random assignment into either a 3 month or 6 month length of intervention. We will evaluate the effects of this model on children's social-emotional, communication and cognitive functioning. We will also examine the impact of this model on families and on the numbers of children referred to early intervention. Results from this project will be disseminated to parents, professionals and other research and training projects.
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