Developmental Disabilites Early Intervention Training

发育障碍早期干预训练

• 批准号: 7480094
• 负责人: Charles Hamad
• 金额: $ 33.56万
• 依托单位: PRAXIS, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-09-06 至 2010-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7480094
• 关键词: Behavior; Child; Child Development; Class; Computers; Consultations; Control Groups; Development; Developmental Disabilities; Disabled Children; Distance Learning; Early Intervention; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Environment; Evaluation; Feedback; Focus Groups; Funding; Health Professional; Healthcare; Housing; Independent Living; Individual; Internet; Intervention; Interview; Knowledge acquisition; Language; Laws; Lead; Learning; Massachusetts; Methods; Nurses; Occupational Therapist; Online Systems; Participant; Pathologist; Phase; Pliability; Population Heterogeneity; Pre-Post Tests; Procedures; Process; Provider; Public Health; Research Personnel; Risk; Schedule; Score; Series; Services; Small Business Technology Transfer Research; Social Workers; Solutions; Speech; Students; Technology; Testing; Time; Today; Training; Training Programs; Universities; base; behavior change; commercialization; day; design; disability; medical schools; programs; research and development; satisfaction; software development; success; training project; usability

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Federal and state laws require that young children with disabilities or who are at risk for developing disabilities be provided with Early Intervention services according to their developmental needs. But currently there is a critical shortage of skilled EI providers. The primary reason for this shortage is a lack of educational and training programs. Except for some university-based programs that are often inaccessible to non-local students, most health care professionals, or those wishing to enter the field, do not have access to high-quality Early Intervention training programs. Moreover, today's professional early intervention workforce rarely has the time or flexibility to attend a fixed schedule of day or evening classes. One solution to these problems is Internet-based distance learning. The proposed Early Intervention training project, Early Intervention Online (EI Online) will develop, implement, and evaluate five web-based distance learning courses designed to train health care professionals to provide Early Intervention services to children with developmental disabilities. EI Online will be developed by Praxis, Inc., a small health care software development company that specializes in programs for children with developmental disabilities, in partnership with the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. The project has three major objectives: (1) Design, develop, implement and evaluate five new EI-Online modules, building on the results of our Phase I project, (2) Conduct a summative evaluation of the EI-Online to include a comparison of the course with a no-treatment control group and (3) Revise all modules based on field evaluation results and produce the final product in anticipation of Phase III commercialization. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE The proposed project and the resulting product will directly benefit individuals who provide early intervention services to children with developmental disabilities. By teaching a set of core early competencies, providers will be better informed about selecting evidence-based early intervention methods and procedures, and better able to aid in such intervention directly. Appropriate early intervention enhances learning and behavior change, and ultimately can lead to greater the opportunities for independent living for individuals with developmental disabilties.

描述（由申请人提供）：联邦和州法律要求根据残疾幼儿或有残疾风险的幼儿根据其发育需求提供早期干预服务。但目前熟练的EI 提供者严重短缺。造成这种短缺的主要原因是缺乏教育和培训计划。除了一些非本地学生通常无法参加的大学课程外，大多数医疗保健专业人员或希望进入该领域的人都无法获得高质量的早期干预培训课程。此外，当今的专业早期干预人员很少有时间或灵活性来参加固定的日间或晚间课程。这些问题的解决方案之一是基于互联网的远程学习。拟议的早期干预培训项目“早期干预在线”(EI Online) 将开发、实施和评估五个基于网络的远程学习课程，旨在培训医疗保健专业人员为发育障碍儿童提供早期干预服务。 EI Online 将由 Praxis, Inc. 开发，Praxis, Inc. 是一家小型医疗保健软件开发公司，专门为发育障碍儿童提供项目，与马萨诸塞大学医学院尤尼斯·肯尼迪·施莱弗中心 (Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center) 合作。该项目有三个主要目标：(1) 基于第一阶段项目的结果，设计、开发、实施和评估五个新的 EI-Online 模块，(2) 对 EI-Online 进行总结性评估，包括比较(3) 根据现场评估结果修改所有模块并生产最终产品，以期实现 III 期商业化。公共卫生相关性 拟议的项目和由此产生的产品将直接使向发育障碍儿童提供早期干预服务的个人受益。通过教授一系列核心早期能力，提供者将更好地了解如何选择基于证据的早期干预方法和程序，并能够更好地直接帮助此类干预。适当的早期干预可以促进学习和行为改变，最终可以为有发育障碍的个人带来更多独立生活的机会。