Ann Kaiser
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An Efficacy Trial of J-EMT: Enhanced Milieu Teaching Language Intervention plus Joint Attention, Engagement and Regulation Intervention for Toddlers with Autism
This project will evaluate the efficacy of an early social communication and language intervention, the J-EMT, on toddlers with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Social communication skills are particularly important for this population, as a deficit in this area constitutes a core characteristic of ASD. The intervention is aimed at toddlers because the majority of children with ASD can be identified accurately by 24 months and acquisition of communication skills by 36 months is a significant...
Federal funding program:
Award number:
R324A150094
FY2017
Reading, Writing, and Language Development FY2022
FY2019
Reading, Writing, and Language Development FY2019
FY2022 - FY2023
Reading, Writing, and Language Development
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Enhancing Peer Network Interventions to Improve Social Communication, Play, and Peer Relationships for Minimally Verbal Students with Autism
The Principal Investigator (PI) will conduct a program of research focused on improving social, communication, and developmental outcomes for minimally verbal students with autism (ASD). The PI will also participate in mentoring and training to build skills related to intervention development, measurement of language and communication, interdisciplinary research, and grant writing and dissemination. Strengthening peer interactions and relationships for children with ASD who are minimally ver...
Federal funding program:
Award number:
R324B210004
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Developing and Testing a Blended Behavior and Language Intervention for Toddlers at High Risk for Persistent Developmental Language Disorders
This project aims to develop and evaluate the promise of Toddler Talk, a model that blends two evidence-based practices - Teaching Pyramid for Supporting the Social Emotional Development of Young Children (Pyramid Model) and Enhanced Milieu Teaching (EMT) - to improve language development in toddlers at high risk for persistent developmental language disorders and poor social and academic outcomes. There are no current early interventions that address this population of young children and th...
Federal funding program:
Award number:
R324A200193
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EMT en Español: Comprehensive Early Intervention to Support School Readiness Skills for Spanish-Speaking Toddlers with Language Delays
The goal of this study is to examine the efficacy of EMT en Español, a cultural and linguistic adaptation of Enhanced Milieu Teaching (EMT), to improve the language and related school readiness skills of young Spanish-speaking children with receptive and expressive language delays. Early language delays impact children's later communicative, social, behavioral, and academic skills and put children at risk for persistent language impairment. Therefore, early language intervention, particular...
Federal funding program:
Award number:
R324A190177
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Developmental Relations Between Language Ability and Behavior Problems
The Principal Investigator (PI) will conduct a program of research to better understand relations between oral language and behavior problems in young children while participating in mentoring and training activities to develop expertise in language development, advanced longitudinal analyses, school-based research partnerships, and grant writing and management. The PI intends to conduct a longitudinal investigation to explore relations between language and behavior among young children at r...
Federal funding program:
Award number:
R324B200039
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An Efficacy Trial of Milieu Teaching Language Intervention in Preschoolers with Language Disorders
Children who experience early language delays include children with production delays only, children with both production and comprehension delays, and children who have global cognitive and other disabilities that affect their language development. Considerable research has focused on young children with only delays in productive language and on children older than 4 years with specific language impairment. Relatively less is known about children with co-occurring production and comprehensi...
Federal funding program:
Award number:
R324A090181
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VU Department of Special Education Postdoctoral Intervention Research Training Program
This postdoctoral program provided five postdoctoral fellows with training in the development and implementation of interventions and statistical and methodological training in intervention research. Fellows received training in randomized controlled trials and alternative research designs, such as regression discontinuity designs and propensity score matching.
Federal funding program:
Award number:
R324B080005
FY2006 IES Peer Reviewers
FY2006 IES Peer Reviewers
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Improving Language and Literacy Outcomes for Preschool Children at Highest Risk for Reading Problems
Language and early literacy skills are foundational to reading and school success. Effective early intervention during the preschool years for children at highest risk for school failure may improve their chances of learning to read and learning from reading in the early elementary school years. Children with Individualized Education Plans (IEP), children with very low language, and children with low language and high problem behaviors who are also enrolled in Head Start are of high risk for...
Federal funding program:
Award number:
R324E060088
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