Kathleen Baggett

The purpose of this project was to develop and test a framework, Supporting Early Interventionists of Toddlers with Autism to Build Family Capacity (SEITA). SEITA was designed to assist early intervention providers (EIPs) in implementing the Building Interactive Social Communication (BISC) intervention by helping parents mediate social communication learning in toddlers with emerging signs of autism. Autism spectrum disorder is the fastest-growing developmental disability and recent improvem...

The prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has grown dramatically in recent years, with advances in early identification now resulting in an influx of toddlers to the early intervention system. Although early intervention providers are required to implement evidence-based practices for this population, few models are available that target social communication, the core difficulty in ASD, at the preverbal stage when neurological development is most malleable. The proposed project direc...

Social-emotional competence and development are central to children's overall school readiness and school success. However, knowledge about infant social-emotional development and about evidence-based practices for supporting positive social-emotional outcomes are often lacking among childcare teachers. The goal of this project is to create and test a professional development program aimed at increasing responsive childcare teacher interactions to promote infant social-emotional development....