Marci J. Hanson

TL;DR: Explores the difficulties involved in adapting to a different culture and provides strategies for effective cross-cultural interactions with families of infants, preschoolers and young children.

TL;DR: In the fourth edition of this bestselling textbook, fully revised to reflect nearly a decade of population changes and best practices in culturally competent service delivery, the authors have carefully updated and expanded every chapter while retaining the basic approach and structure that made the previous editions so popular as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Using an ecological systems conceptual framework proposed by Bronfenbrenner, this paper reviewed research on the inclusion of preschool children with disabilities in programs with typically developing children, drawing mainly from studies conducted in the United States, research on child characteristics (biosystem), classroom practices (microsystem), family perspectives (mesosystem), social policy, culture (macrosystem), and changes in variables across time (chronosystem).

TL;DR: Results showed significant relationships between maternal stress and parenting experiences, however, few differences across groups were noted with regard to reported stress or parenting experiences and adaptation.

TL;DR: The cultural histories, values, and beliefs of families who are among the growing and diverse, non-white and non-Anglo population must be recognized and valued by early intervention specialists who provide family services.