Participation. Key Principle. National Best Practice Framework for Early Childhood Intervention.

Описание: Welcome to the Unpacking the Framework video series. This video series was coordinated and produced by PRECI (Professionals and Researchers in Early Childhood Intervention).

This video covers Participation – a Key Principle of the National Best Practice Framework for Early Childhood Intervention and is presented by our international speaker Dr Mary Louise Hemmeter..

Dr. Mary Louise Hemmeter is a professor of Early Childhood Special Education at Vanderbilt University and holds the Nicholas Hobbs Chair in Special Education and Human Development. Her research focuses on effective instruction, supporting social emotional development and addressing challenging behaviour, and coaching teachers. Dr. Hemmeter conducts presentations and workshops throughout the US and abroad. She has directed numerous multi-site projects funded by the US Departments of Education and Health and Human Services.
Through her work on the National Center on the Social Emotional Foundations for Early Learning and IES-funded research projects, she was involved in the development of the Pyramid Model for Supporting Social Emotional Competence in Young Children and the Practice Based Coaching Model. She is a co-author on the Connect4Learning Early Childhood Curriculum, the Teaching Pyramid Observation Tool, and the Teaching Pyramid Infant-Toddler Observation Scale (TPITOS). She was co-editor of the Journal of Early Intervention and President of the Council for Exceptional Children’s Division for Early Childhood. She received the Merle B. Karnes Service to the Division Award and the Mary McEvoy Service to the Field Award.
Mary Louise is also involved in supporting a current trial of the Pyramid Model in 11 ECEC sites in Western Australia.

The University of Melbourne acknowledges the contributions of Healthy Trajectories, the Melbourne Disability Institute, STRONG Kids STRONG Future, the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI), Professionals and Researchers in Early Childhood Intervention (PRECI), SNAICC – National Voice for our Children, Children and Young People with Disability Australia, and ACD – Advocating for Children with Disability, in developing this material for the National Best Practice Framework for Early Childhood Intervention, which was commissioned by the Department of Social Services.

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