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.
  
  • Propensity Score Analysis as an Alternative to Random Assignment
  • Overview: Analysis of Kindergarten Outcomes in the National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study
  • Survival Analysis Describing the Developmental Status of Kindergartners Who Received EI Services as Infants & Toddlers
  • Obtaining a single score from multiple reporter An item analysis that combines parent and teacher reports
  
  
  
• 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:
  
  • Training materials
  • Agenda
  
  
  
• 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.