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Juniper Gardens Team Among First Winners of Bridging the Word Gap Competition
An innovative team at the Juniper Gardens Children’s Project has won a $10,000 prize from the Bridging the Word Gap Challenge for the design of a communication intervention program that uses a mobile device. ...
Kids with ASD use iPad App to Talk and Play
Life Span Institute scientist Kathy Bourque has approached the social communication problems of children with autism from several directions. She developed and tested both peer training and teaching strategies to increase social communication between children with autism and their classmates. ...
Cultural Adaptation of Online Intervention Program Underway for Hispanic Families
Researchers with the Juniper Gardens Children’s Project and K-CART are testing a Spanish version of the Online and Applied System for Intervention Skills (OASIS) that will go beyond translating the program from one language to another. ...
Parenting Fragile Newborns: There's an App for That
You are a young, poor mother whose parents were harsh and critical. You had a baby 10 weeks ago who weighed just three pounds. She has been in a neonatal intensive care unit where she has been cared for by medical professionals 24/7. Now she is ready to go home—and...
Enriching Home Visits to Engage Parents
Home visitors are on the frontlines of battling the effects of poverty on children and their families. They coordinate family support services including health care, transportation, housing, job placement, counseling, and, in some places like Wyandotte County and southeast Kansas, they even bring Early Head Start into the homes of...