Family-oriented early intervention policies and practices: family-centered or not?
Dunst, C.J.; Johanson, C.; Trivette, C.M.; Hamby, D.
Exceptional Children 58(2): 115-126
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 0014-4029 PMID: 1836180 DOI: 10.1177/001440299105800203Document Number: 233037
This article includes a multimethod, multisource analysis and synthesis of the degree to which contemporary family-oriented early intervention policies and practices are family centered. Federal laws and legislation, state-level policy positions, and the viewpoints of service providers and consumers were analyzed as part of the study. The findings, taken together, indicate a movement toward adoption of family-centered early intervention policies and practices at the different levels of analysis. There are, however, discrepancies between what state-level policymakers and "street-level" providers and consumers see as current beliefs and practices within states.