Completed Projects
Early Childhood | School Age | Life Span
Below is a listing of center projects which have reached completion arranged into Early Childhood, School Age Support and Life Span Support groupings.
To visit an individual project page, simply click on the appropriate Project Title from the listings below.
Completed Early Childhood Projects
Birth to Three CT Early Intervention Supervisors Institute
Goal: provide workshop participants with an opportunity for development of strategies which will enhance their ability to supervise staff's portfolio work samples and observations leading to a credential and to assist in continuous improvement of IFSPs and services to families.
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CT Birth to Three Systems Evaluation
Goal: to explore the costs, service delivery, and outcomes of Birth to Three services. The project is being conducted under contract and direction of the lead agency, CT Department of Mental Retardation.
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Early Intervention for Latino Families
Goal: to study an alternative service delivery model for infants, toddlers, and their families who are eligible for early intervention services under Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The families involved in the project are of Latino heritage and use Spanish as their preferred and dominant language.
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Evaluation of the Early Childhood Consultation Partnership
Goal: carry out a variety of activities to help childcare staff promote mental health and emotional well-being and increase their ability to identify children in need of individualized mental health supports.
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Increasing Children's Learning Opportunities: Early Childhood Research Institute
Goal: to identify, develop, and evaluate strategies and approaches to promote and enhance the learning and development of young children with or at risk for disabilities.
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Goal: to provide technical assistance to states as they include children with disabilities (from birth through 12) in child care settings.
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Natural Environments in Urban Communities
Goal: to increase the number of children receiving early intervention services in community activities with their typically developing peers.
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Pediatric Residency Training Program on Children with Disabilities and Their Families
Goal: to train and inform pediatric residents of relevant issues in the development and provision of services to children with disabilities and special health care needs.
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Goal: to develop, implement, disseminate, and evaluate a medical home for infants and toddlers with special health care needs and disabilities and their families receiving early intervention in Connecticut.
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Social Competence Curriculum Project
Goal: to test the effectiveness of a social competence curriculum on the growth and development of social skills in toddler-age children with disabilities.
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Completed School Age Support Projects
Behavioral Health Research Project
Goal: to develop stakeholder-based information reports from the Department of Children and Families behavioral health data, creating a new behavioral health database and a research and evaluation manual to assist local mental health and substance abuse providers to access the database.
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Goal: part of the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) General Supervision Grant generated in response to Connecticut’s Continuous Improvement Monitoring Process and aims to fill two important gaps in data sources as to the effectiveness of current transition programs and services in the state.
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Youth Activities
Goal: to help young adults with disabilities meet the challenges of the future, overcome obstacles, and become leaders. In doing this they can make a difference in their communities and for others with disabilities.
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Completed Life Span Support Projects
Assistive Technology
Goal: to outline possible funding sources for assistive technology devices and services based on type of device/service and age group.
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Case Management Standards Development
Goal: to develop quality job standards for people working as case managers, support brokers, and advocates; in collaboration with the Department of Mental Retardation.
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Connecticut Family Support Network
Goal: to provide grassroots opportunities for the development of an effective, comprehensive statewide family support network for families who have a child with a disability or special need.
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Library Inclusion for Everyone
Goal: working with the Connecticut State Library System and the Office of Protection and Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities through a grant from the Connecticut Department of Social Services, Tech Act Project to increase access for persons with disabilities to all Connecticut libraries.
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Goal: a training course designed to foster collaboration among parents with children with disabilities, individuals with disabilities, and policy makers at national, state, and local levels.
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Protective Services for Adults with Mental Retardation
Goal: A review of cases handled by CT's Office of Protection and Advocacy; to assist Connecticut's Office of Protection and Advocacy (OPA) to better understand the impact of investigations carried out or monitored by its Abuse Investigation Division (AID).
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