CDL psychology faculty provide weekly assessment services as part of multidisciplinary team preschool assessments at Southeast Family Services. The assessments are part of a project with Wake County Public Schools for children transitioning from infant-toddler services to the public school system.
NEED: Support services to adults with autism with/without dual diagnoses have been historically inadequate, especially in rural and non-institutionalized settings. Many of these individuals would benefit from individualized strategies used to improve their quality of life and levels of independence, participation, and enjoyment ...
NEED: While they might continue to benefit from intervention services, for a variety of reasons historically there has been low incidence in provision of occupational therapy services to middle school and high school aged students with disabilities. Additionally, most public charter schools do not have the benefits of access to ...
NEED: Services to individuals with MR/DD who are aged teen through elderly are woefully inadequate, especially in rural and non-institutionalized settings. Many of these individuals would benefit from individualized strategies used to improve their quality of life and levels of independence, participation, and enjoyment of occup...
The purpose of this study is to develop a staging system to define the progression of infantile Krabbe disease. Results of head MRI findings, tests of how the brain responds to hearing and vision will be integrated with information obtained from evaluations of how the infant learns to solve problems, communicate, socialize and ...
Early Childhood LINK is a model training, consultation, and technical assistance project in which an expert transdisciplinary team, based at the Clinical Center for the Study of Development and Learning (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), will work collaboratively with a wide range of infant, toddler, and preschoo...
The purpose of this project is to characterize the natural history of the neurodevelopment of patients with MPS II. The complexity and spectrum of physical and learning problems in MPS II warrants a comprehensive approach. In order to determine the effects of progressive storage of GAG in the CNS with subsequent decline in lea...
Next Generation: Acting for Advocacy (A4A)
The purpose of A4A is to improve the odds for youths to graduate with a high school diploma and make a successful transition to their community. We will achieve this through collaboration with students, school personnel, family members, and community members. We will provide an o...
The Chapel Hill Carrboro Head Start/Pre-K Consultation and Training provides mental health and behavioral consultation for teachers, administration, parents, and caregivers in the program. In addition, this program provides technical assistance regarding behavior management, child development, and teaching skills for preschoolers to program teachers, administration staff, and teacher assistants.
The CDL participates in a number of community outreach services to provide Occupational Therapy, Psychology, Speech, and Physical Therapy to students who have a range of neurodevelopmental and learning differences. Community Outreach service projects are based in a number of settings including Kestrel Heights Charter School, Carolina Living and Learning Center, Residential Services, Inc., among others.
CDL pediatricians, psychologists, and trainees provide pediatric services, technical assistance, assessment, consultation and therapeutic services to the Governor Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh, NC. Three days a week CDL psychologists evaluate children (students in elementary, middle and high school at GMS) with visual impairments, consult with students' teachers about behavioral management techniques or other concerns and see students in therapy.
HOPE Works (Health, Opportunities, Partnerships and Empowerment) is an innovative intervention approach to address the serious problem of obesity among low-income and minority women in two rural counties in NC. HOPE Works focuses on goal setting, weight management and increasing hope among lower income rural women by addressing social/economic determinants and healthy behaviors. Facilitators from the community are trained to lead weekly or bi-weekly HOPE Circles of 10 to 12 low-income, overweight women. Participants attend Hope Circles and receive monthly tailored health newsletters that provide individualized information and strategies to achieve targeted behavior changes as well as the goals women set for health and life improvement. Evaluation assesses the program’s effects on HOPE Works participants followed over one year as well as overall change in community health indicators over the 5 year project period.
The CDL provides psychological consultation for 36 students from The Whitaker School.
Early Childhood LINK is a model training, consultation, and technical assistance project with the mission to help local agencies address documented service delivery needs for young children with low-incidence disabilities (e.g., visual impairment, deafness/hard of hearing, autism), and another condition of higher-incidence, which remains significantly under-targeted.
The NCI is a national effort to collect information on the effectiveness of state developmental disabilities services in a format that can be compared across states and that can be used to benchmark progress within states.
The National Professional Development Center on Autism Spectrum Disorders is a multi-university center is to promote use of evidence-based practice with children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders. Staff from the professional development center will work with states to increase the number of personnel prepared to teach children with autism, to promote early identification and diagnosis, and to identify and share information about evidence-based interventions.
The CDL participates in a technical assistance program with the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, providing technical assistance and any necessary training and support to the Exceptional Children's division, as well as to exceptional children's department directors and school psychologists across the state of North Carolina, on matters pertaining to the practice of school psychology.
Project STIR (Steps Toward Independence and Responsibility) offers a range of community-based training and technical assistance related to self-advocacy, self-determination, and inclusion. The STIR team of trainers with and without developmental and other disabilities uses a variety of interactive learning approaches including hands-on activities, enactment, small group discussion, and video. Training workshops reach self-advocates, family members, and professionals to offer practice and support in self-advocacy. The team is also involved with efforts that affect policy issues in related areas.
A current project, Youths 4 Advocacy (Y4A), is funded by US Administration on Developmental Disabilities. Y4A links youths and emerging leaders with developmental disabilities across North Carolina, empowering youths to transition successfully from school to adult life in their communities. Using Speak-Up curriculum materials developed through Acting for Advocacy and a web site, Y4A reaches youths in school districts to provide practical tools. Y4A offers ongoing, hands-on technical assistance in classrooms at a demonstration site, in collaboration with the NC Department of Public Instruction’s Occupational Course of Study. High school students are recruited for peer leader teams and, in turn, train other students. An advisory committee is composed of emerging youth leaders and representatives from youth-serving agencies.
The Duke Developmental- Behavioral Pediatrics Project is a collaborative venture between the Department of Pediatrics at Duke University Medical Center and the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. The goals and objectives of the Duke project are to teach information skills and knowledge about a wide variety of Developmental- Behavioral Pediatric issues.
Children with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) exhibit wide variation in their behavior and educational profiles. This has made the assessment process and determination of effective teaching strategies difficult for many educators. This study attempts to remedy this problem through the development of teacher and parent rating forms that would provide specific, detailed information on individual children's neurodevelopmental profiles. These forms can then be directly linked to intervention strategies developed specifically for that profile of strengths and needs.
The Centers for Autism and Developmental Disabilities Research and Epidemiology were established in 2001 to investigate causes and correlates of autism. Now the focus is to conduct a multi-site collaborative epidemiologic study to investigate risk and causal factors for Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) and phenotypic subgroups of ASDs using a population-based case-cohort study design. Six sites (California, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and Georgia) will collaborate to enroll 2700 children and their families over the 5-year study period.
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