Children's Outcomes Stories

This vignette illustrates how a speech-language pathologist worked with 18-month-old Evan's family at home and with the teacher at a child care center to work on feeding and communication goals.

This vignette illustrates how a physical therapist worked with the family to help two and a half-year-old Jacob and his younger brother have fun at the playground.

This vignette illustrates how a child development specialist worked with members of a transdisciplinary early intervention team and the family to help 27-month-old Janelle make her choices known and participate in play and family routines.

This vignette illustrates how a physical therapist worked with the entire family to address the family's goal that two and a half year old Jenni walks independently.

This vignette illustrates how a physical therapist worked with the family using low-tech adaptations and household items to make bath time a fun, social, and enriching experience for almost three-year-old Nolan and his entire family.

This video tells a heartwarming story in which a family, a preschool teacher and her staff, a state TA provider, and a school principal worked together to enable a young girl with significant medical issues to attend a preschool classroom through video conferencing.

This video shows highlights of a parent-teacher conference. The meeting occurred during the half hour before school began and the parent brought two of her children, her preschooler, and infant, along with her. The video illustrates a variety of practices, including using engaging open-ended questions, active listening, positive ways to share information with families, having strengths-based discussions, and sharing photo and video documentation with families.

This video is the second of a two-part series. The first video, “Family Engagement with TS GOLD,” features a teacher and a parent describing family communication features and benefits in TS GOLD. This video begins with brief interviews with the teacher and parent discussing the importance of parent-teacher conferences. The video then shows about ten minutes of an actual parent-teacher conference. The conference highlights how the teacher uses several features of TS GOLD during the conference and illustrates how the teacher describes the ways that families can participate in TS Gold.

Because of an immune disease and the risk of infection, Aiden was not able to be near other children. This inspiring video illustrates how a homebound interventionist and a preschool teacher collaborated to enable Aiden to attend a typical preschool classroom through video conferencing. The story illustrates a number of themes, including collaboration between general and special education, teaming, the importance of reflection, family engagement, friendships, uses of technology, modifying instructional practices to include all children, administrative support, and IEP meetings.

This video illustrates a variety of themes and practices as the teacher discusses Spanish-speaking classrooms, The Project Approach, family engagement, community engagement and support, and having high expectations for all children.

This video describes how teachers in SD27J Preschool in Brighton, Colorado use this approach to interactive reading.

This video illustrates a dialogic reading group.

This video illustrates how teachers in SD27J Preschool in Brighton, Colorado use The Incredible Years, also known as "Dinosaur School."

This video illustrates how teachers in SD27J Preschool in Brighton, Colorado use The Incredible Years, also known as "Dinosaur School."

In this video, Sara Hefner, an Early Childhood Special Educator, discusses and illustrates the importance of making home visits in preschool. Sara and a father that she visits describe the benefits of home visits for children, families, and teachers.

A mother shares her feelings about what Megan Klish Fibbe, physical therapist and early intervention have accomplished for her and her children during their final home visit.

This video describes and illustrates this program of Thompson School District. The Thompson Family Circles reaches out to families with young children before they begin preschool, providing a parenting support that is bilingual, relationship-based, and playful.

Owners of a licensed family child care home describe how they make high-quality programming, curriculum, and assessment work in a home environment.