Building foundations for self-determination in young children

This is a current project.

Description

The purpose of this project is to develop and document the feasibility of an intervention to develop skills that have been identified as precursors of self-determination. The project will investigate how adult facilitation and environmental accommodations will lead to greater choice-making, engagement and self-regulation; how those behaviors will lead to enhanced learning capacity; and from there to self-determination, academic and post-school life outcomes.

Project Administration

Jean Ann Summers, principal investigator

Susan Palmer, co-principal investigator

Project Contact

Jean Ann Summers, Ph.D.
Research Professor
Beach Center on Disability
3136 Haworth Hall
1200 Sunnyside Avenue
Lawrence, KS 66045-7555
jsummers@ku.edu
785-864-7602 (phone)
785-864-7605 (fax)

This is a project of:

Beach Center on Disability

Funded by:

U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences

Send corrections/comments/questions to lifespan@ku.edu


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