Early Intervention in Transition: Current Perspectives on Programs for Handicapped Children

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The growing prominence of ecological and social systems perspectives in the child development and family studies fields is having a significant impact on the conceptualization and delivery of early intervention services. The exclusive focus on the handicapped or developmentally delayed child is gradually giving way to a much broader focus on the family as a system. This book brings together the conceptual and empirical work of a number of scholars whose current research is at the leading edge of these shifts. Marfo's volume has an international appeal - but perhaps more significantly it affords American researchers a unique opportunity to learn more about the intervention field.

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This work is well suited to courses on early childhood special education in that theory is closely linked with application, program efficacy research is a primary concern, and it is organized so that individual chapters provide concise reviews of the relevant literature.-READINGS: A Journal of Reviews and Commentary in Mental Health
"This work is well suited to courses on early childhood special education in that theory is closely linked with application, program efficacy research is a primary concern, and it is organized so that individual chapters provide concise reviews of the relevant literature."-READINGS: A Journal of Reviews and Commentary in Mental Health

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KOFI MARFO is Associate Professor of Educational Psychology at Kent State University. Dr. Marfo is the editor of Parent-Child Interaction and Developmental Disabilities (Preager, 1988) and Childhood Disability (Praeger, 1985).