title: Family-oriented early intervention policies and practices: family-centered or not?
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Family, Infant and Preschool Program, Western Carolina Center, Morganton, NC.
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Dunst
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Johanson
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Trivette
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hamby
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D005190:Family; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D012947:Social Work / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States