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What's New
- Kathleen Hebbeler participated in a Congressional briefing on June 11, 2009 to discuss
Education that works: The Impact of Early Childhood Intervention on Reducing the Need for Special Education Services.
This briefing consisted of a panel that discussed successful state and local early childhood intervention
initiative, as well as the latest research on the benefits of such interventions for children. You can find
a copy of Dr. Hebbeler's testimony here.
- Kathleen Hebbeler, Donna Spiker, Sangeeta Mallik, Anita Scarborough,
RJ Wirth, Hal Javitz, and Cyndi Williamson presented NEILS findings entitled Innovative approaches for
looking at longitudinal data on child outcomes at a paper symposium at the SRCD 2009 Biennial Meeting, in
Denver, CO, April 2-4, 2009.
- Kathleen Hebbeler presented NEILS findings at the IES Research Conference in
Washington D.C., in June 2008. The poster presentation was entitled,
"Developing Child Outcome Measures of
Social Emotional, Academic and Adaptive/Independent Functioning Using Parent and Kindergarten Teacher Information."
- SRI International and the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP),
U.S. Department of Education, sponsored a two and half day training workshop on the use of large-scale
educational databases for research and policy studies, June 16-18, 2008. The workshop covered descriptions
and applications of National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study (NEILS).
You can access training materials here:
- The NEILS data is now available in the form of a public use data-set on CD.
To order a copy, please email:
doris.perkins@sri.com.
- A comprehensive final report from the 10-year National Early
Intervention Longitudinal Study (NEILS) entitled Early Intervention for Infants & Toddlers with
Disabilities and Their Families: Participants, Services, and Outcomes (2007) by Kathleen Hebbeler,
Donna Spiker, Don Bailey, Anita Scarborough, Sangeeta Mallik, Rune Simeonsson, Marnie Singer, and
Lauren Nelson is now available on our web-site. This report summarizes some of the key findings from
the study and notes their implications for policy, practice, and additional research.
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