RTOI - Early Identification to Services Among Low Literacy, Urban Parents

2013

The study focuses on urban parents who have low literacy skills, live in poverty, and have young children (birth to four years of age). We proposed to: (a) describe parents? awareness, knowledge, and behavior regarding children?s development, (b) identify attitudinal and social barriers to monitoring their children?s development and engaging in help seeking behavior in the presence of concerns, (c) develop strategies to facilitate their involvement in identifying children with developmental delays and connecting with appropriate early intervention services in a timely manner, (d) evaluate materials from the Learn the Signs, Act Early (LTSAE) health communication campaign, and (e) make recommendations on how to improve these materials and / or develop new materials to meet needs that we identify in this research effort. We will also recommend general strategies for how to best address the population groups? awareness, knowledge, and behaviors related to early identification and taking early action for referrals and intervention with their young children with autism and other developmental delays. The overarching framework for our research is based upon the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB; Ajzen, 1991), a model that has been frequently adopted to evaluate attitudinal and social barriers to engaging in health promoting behavior.

low literacy, LTSAE

Performing Research or Evaluation

Education & Early Intervention, Other - Cultural Diversity

Not Applicable

Racial or Ethnic Minorities, Disadvantaged Circumstances, Geographic Areas, Urban

National

Federal

N/A