Scott McConnell

The Principal Investigator (PI) will conduct a program of research aimed at developing effective emergent literacy instruction for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) while participating in mentoring and training activities to develop knowledge and skills related to adaptive interventions, sequential multiple assignment randomized trial (SMART) designs, publication, and grant funding. Findings from emerging research suggest that many children with ASD demonstrate early signs of rea...

In an age of growing early childhood accountability, research has focused on improving instruction, measurement, curricula, and professional development in early childhood education settings for most teachers and the children they serve. However, within these advances, little attention has focused on low incidence populations, including ethnically and linguistically diverse students. Current data from St. Paul Public Schools indicate that preschool Hmong students are significantly more at ri...

The purpose of this project is develop a preschool early language and literacy progress monitoring tool in Spanish, Progress Monitoring-Spanish-Individual Growth and Development Indicators (PM-S-IGDIs), to complement a progress monitoring tool in English (PM-IGDIs) that will be developed with funding from IES. The development of a Spanish progress monitoring tool will allow for frequent assessment of the phonological awareness, oral language, and alphabet knowledge of 4- 5- year old Spanish-...