What Every Family Needs to Hear About Autism and Early Intervention: Insights From Cristina Busu

A recent study found that family participation in therapy directly improves children’s social communication and emotional ...
Colorado Public Radio

Home visits provide lifelines for Colorado families struggling to find or afford quality early education

Standing in her living room, Isabel Valencia sets up her makeshift tennis serve with the materials on hand: a green balloon for a ball and a ruler affixed to a paper plate for a racket. She bats the ...
KESQ News

Quality early education can be expensive or hard to find. Home visits bring it to more families

PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — Standing in her living room, Isabel Valencia sets up her makeshift tennis serve with the materials on hand: a green balloon for a ball and a ruler affixed to a paper plate for a ...
EdSurge

Many Lack Access to Quality Early Education. Home Visiting Programs Are Bringing it to More Families.

Home visitor Mayra Ocampo, left, and parent Isabel Valencia take turns reading a children's book in Valencia's living room during a weekly home visit. PUEBLO, Colorado — Standing in her living room, ...
New America

Closing Early Intervention Service Gaps to Infants is Both Policy and Practice

Automatic eligibility policies can help serve more infants and families with EI, but implementation is critical.
Center for American Progress

States Seek To Improve Early Childhood Outcomes Through Consolidated Governance Structures

In recent years, a number of states have moved to consolidate disparately administered early childhood programs into a single agency to improve coordination of services and reduce administrative ...
Science Daily

Standardized autism screening during pediatric well visits identified more, younger children with high likelihood for autism diagnosis

New research found that the use of standardized autism screening during pediatric well-child visits identifies more children with high autism likelihood at a younger age, including those presenting ...
Colorado Public Radio

As Colorado budget committee works to prevent further cuts to early childhood services, families share their stories

Update 8:20 p.m. Feb. 28, 2025: Officials from the Department of Early Childhood sent a memo to providers and families Friday afternoon that all cost containment strategies are paused until further ...
WTEN

Quality early education can be expensive or hard to find. Home visits bring it to more families

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — Standing in her living ...