Prevention, Assessment, Referral And Transition
For Infants And Toddlers Who Are Adopted
Partners is a 4 year model
demonstration project sponsored by the United States Department of Education,
Office of Special Education Programs. The purpose of this project is to
develop a Prevention, Assessment, Referral and Transition model that can
be used with young adopted children and their parents by public and private
adoption agencies as well as early
intervention programs to identify developmental problems, provide developmental
intervention services early in the adjustment period of young adoptees, and
transition adopted children to formal early intervention and special education
services as the need arises.
This project is demonstrating this model with a sample of 80 adopted
children and their parents.
Children receive intervention services through random assignment into
either a 3 month or 6 month intervention.
In the first year of this project, the Partners model will be implemented with individual
families, and in year two we will use small groups for the model. This allows for a
comparison of two different lengths of time and two different modalities (single
versus group).
This model is being evaluated in terms of its impact on children's
social-emotional, communication and cognitive functioning. We are also evaluate
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 federally funded research and training projects.
(BROCHURE)
Affiliated Agencies and Collaborators
Adoption Health Services
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