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Current FPG Projects
- Center on Outcomes for Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers with Disabilities
- National Professional Development Center on Inclusion
- NC Technical Assistance Project
- NECTAC: National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center
- Partnerships for Inclusion
Past FPG Projects
- Evaluating NC's Public School Programs for Preschoolers with Disabilities
- Evaluating Participation and Environments
- Evaluating School Environments and Participation
- Increasing Participation of Children with Mobility-Related Disabilities
- Measuring Environments of Children & Youth with Disabilities
- Neurodevelopmental Disorders Research Center - Subject Registry Core
- North Carolina Office on Disability and Health
- Participation and Environment in the School Age Population, North Carolina
- Project INTEGRATE: Integrated and Naturalistic Therapy and Education Garner
- Readiness Assessment: Young Children With Disabilities
- Secondary Conditions, Participation, and Quality of Life in Spina Bifida
- Secondary Conditions, Participation, and Quality of Life in TBI
Topical Areas
- Autism
- Down Syndrome
- Early Intervention
- Fragile X
- IDEA
- Inclusion
- Minority Families
- Policy
- Social Skills
- Visual Impairments
Research Summaries
- Examining Social Acceptance & Rejection (2007)
- Why Young Children Enter Early Intervention Services (2007)
- Lack of Consensus on How to Evaluate Programs for Preschool Children with Disabilities Leaves States Floundering (2006)
- Early Childhood Teachers Often Ill Prepared to Care for Children with Disabilities (2006)
- Parents Go Online to Understand Genetic Diagnoses (2006)
- Early Intervention Contributes to Families' Quality of Life (2006)
- Essential Skills for Early Intervention Practitioners (2005)
- National Study Profiles Children Entering Early Intervention (2004)
- Otitis Media in Young Children With Disabilities - Practical Strategies (2004)
- Survey Examines Experiences of Families Entering Early Intervention (2004)
- Early childhood special education research: needs and priorities (2003)
- Visual impairments: Suggestions for early interventionists (2003)
- Early Intervention: What’s Next? (1999)
- Family Outcomes (1999)
- Disabilities & Transitions (1998)
News Releases
- Families generally happy with initial early intervention services - national study 4/6/04
- Parents reading to children with special needs just as important as reading to others: expert 2/5/03
- New national center begins work to improve services to children with disabilities 7/12/02
- Model inclusion program now open at FPG child care center 2/27/02
- FPG researcher notes impact of IDEA legislation 10/11/00
- UNC study finds Smart Start supports quality child care for children with disabilities 5/30/00
- Therapists for children with disabilities learning new ways to deliver services 8/5/98
- Study identifies level of vision that alters child’s development 12/4/97
- New measuring tool underway for young children with disabilities 11/3/97
- New project to integrate therapy for children 11/1/97
- Helping plan inclusive programs aids roles, relationships 10/5/97
