The Institute of Education Sciences (Institute) invites applications for research projects that will contribute to its Early Intervention and Assessment for Young Children with Disabilities – Special Education Research program (Early Intervention).
The purpose of the Early Intervention research program is to contribute to the improvement of cognitive, linguistic, social, and emotional outcomes of young children with disabilities or to prevent the development of learning disabilities by: (a) identifying curriculum and instructional practices that are potentially effective for improving cognitive, linguistic, social, and emotional outcomes of young children with disabilities; (b) developing new, or modifying existing, preschool curricula, including appropriate teacher professional development, to address the cognitive, linguistic, social, and emotional needs of young children with disabilities or at risk for learning disabilities; (c) establishing the efficacy of existing preschool curricula for or teacher professional development for teaching young children with disabilities or young children at high risk for learning disabilities; (d) providing evidence on the effectiveness of preschool curricula or teacher professional development implemented at scale that are designed to address the cognitive, linguistic, social, and emotional needs of young children with disabilities or at high risk for learning disabilities; and (e) developing and validating early assessment tools that can be used by practitioners to identify and monitor preschool children who are in need of intensive early intervention.
