Research Issues Methods and Evidence-Based Practice

Advancing the Science of Sustainability: A Dynamic Perspective

Expanding the definition of sustainability in an implementation context and challenging historical assumptions that may impede the progress of evidence-based practice

Expanding the definition of sustainability in an implementation context and challenging historical assumptions that may impede the progress of evidence-based practice he following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. A lot of what I’m going to say is hopefully engaging you to think with me about...

Advancing Implementation Science: A View from the National Institute of Mental Health

An overview of the need, themes, progress, and funding resources for dissemination and implementation research

An overview of the need, themes, progress, and funding resources for dissemination and implementation research The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. This presentation is to give you more of a broad view of dissemination and implementation research opportunities at the NIH, but I did...

Universal Newborn Hearing Screening: The Evolution of a Public Health Revolution

The anatomy of the implementation of a universal newborn screening program in Colorado and across states

The anatomy of the implementation of a universal newborn screening program in Colorado and across states The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. Additional presentation slides can be downloaded by clicking the PDF button in the toolbar. I wish I could start out with efficacy...

Scaling Up Evidence Based Practices

Lessons learned from efforts to scale up School-wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)

Mar, 2014

Lessons learned from efforts to scale up School-wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. I’ve been asked to talk about this notion of how you take things to scale. We heard this morning about kernels. We heard about...

Applied Implementation Research: Addressing the “How” of Real World Practice

The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. For our time today, the aims are bold. I want you to think of this time as an orientation to lay out some big ideas. In an effort to manage expectations, I’ not sure we will get around...

Impact of Cross-Linguistic Research in Studying Specific Language Impairment

In recent, I can almost say recent decades now, I’ve been very active in cross-linguistic research. Initially I was focused on English-speaking children, and we really had a handle on what these children are like. There are some individual differences, of course. Somewhere along the line, I read something about...

Identifying Children with Specific Language Impairment

I think, as some British colleagues have said before, children with specific language impairment seem to be a group of children who, the person on the street will never have heard of, and yet, the prevalence of specific language impairment — kids who meet these criteria are every bit as...

Steps in Assessment Development

Second in the series on Development of a Bilingual Test for Spanish-English Children, this presentation is a general overview of the process for developing a new assessment test.

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Challenges in Assessing Bilingual Populations

First in the series on Development of a Bilingual Test for Spanish-English Children, this presentation discusses why bilingual children are not just "two monolinguals in one"

First in the series on Development of a Bilingual Test for Spanish-English Children, this presentation discusses why bilingual children are not just “two monolinguals in one” The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. Presentation slides are available for download via the PDF button in the...

Bilingual Semantics Assessment Design

Fifth in the series on Development of a Bilingual Test for Spanish-English Children

Fifth in the series on Development of a Bilingual Test for Spanish-English Children The following is a transcript of the presentation video, edited for clarity. Presentation slides are available for download via the PDF button in the toolbar. Semantics, Primary Language Impairment, and Bilingualism When we started working on the...