Jane Squires

The purpose of this project was to develop a social-emotional intervention, Social Emotional Learning in Early Childhood for Infants and Toddlers (SELECT), to increase the quality of key parent–child interaction skills, improve children's social-emotional skills, and ultimately improve school readiness for infants and toddlers with disabilities. Significant numbers of infants and toddlers-particularly those with developmental disabilities-have social-emotional problems that are neither rec...

Estimates suggest that between 10 percent to 25 percent of all young children display social, emotional, and behavior problems, many of which are severe enough to warrant a mental health diagnosis (e.g., attachment disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). Children who display early signs of behavior problems typically do not "grow out" of them and such problems are likely to continue or worsen without intervention to improve behavior. However, there are few high quality assessme...