Children with Disabilities: A Longitudinal Study of Child Development and Parent Well-being, Volume 66, Number 3ISBN: 978-0-631-23475-3
Paperback
300 pages
November 2001, Wiley-Blackwell
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Marji Erickson Warfield (Ph.D., 1991, Brandeis
University) is assistant professor of pediatrics at the University
of Massachusetts Medical School. Her work has focused on evaluating
early intervention and other educational and support programs for
young children and their families, investigating the development of
children with disabilities and the adaptation of their families,
and examining the impact of parenting a child with disabilities on
balancing work and family roles. Her publications include
"Employment, parenting, and well-being among mothers of children
with disabilities," Mental Retardation (2001), as well as several
articles on the cost-effectiveness of early intervention services
and the well-being of parents raising a child with a disability.
She is the principal investigator of an NICHD-funded study entitled
"Two-earner families of children with disabilities."
Jack P. Shonkoff (M.D., 1972, New York University School
of Medicine) is dean of the Heller Graduate School and Samuel F.
and Rose B. Gingold professor of human development and social
policy at Brandeis University. His work focuses on early childhood
health and development, and the interactions among research,
policy, and practice. He has served as chair of the Board on
Children, Youth and Families and the Committee on Integrating the
Science of Early Childhood Development at the National Academy of
Sciences and the Institute of Medicine. He is a member of the
MacArthur Foundation and McDonnell Foundation Research Network on
Early Experience and Brain Development, and co-editor (with Deborah
Phillips) of From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early
Childhood Development and co-editor (with Samuel Meisles) of the
second edition of the Handbook of Early Childhood
Intervention.
Marty Wyngaarden Krauss (Ph.D., 1981, Brandeis
University) is associate dean for faculty and professor of social
policy at the Heller Graduate School at Brandeis University. She is
also the Director of the Starr Center for Mental Retardation at the
Heller Graduate School. Her research focuses on family caregiving
for persons with developmental disabilities over the lifespan and
on health policy issues affecting children with special health care
needs. She served as Chairperson of the MA Governor's Commission on
Mental Retardation for six years. She has authored numerous
publications on the well-being of families of persons with mental
retardation and other disabilities.
In collaboration with:
Aline Sayer (Ed.D., 1992, Harvard Graduate School of Education)
is senior research scientist at the Murray Research Center,
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University. She
is a developmental psychologist with interests in statistical
modeling of individual growth. Her methodological interests include
the incorporation of measurement models into hierarchical linear
models and latent growth curve models. Her substantive interests
include examining the predictors of adolescent alcohol expectancies
and the influences of preschool quality on child outcomes. She is
co-editor (with Linda Collins) of New Methods for the Analysis of
Change (2001).
Carole Christofk Upshur (Ed.D. 1975, Harvard Graduate School of Education) is professor of public policy at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and director of the public policy Ph.D. program. Her work focuses on the planning and evaluation of services for vulnerable children and families and encompasses policy analysis and evaluation research on a range of issues affecting communities at risk. Among her publications are The government-nonprofit relationship: Towards a partnership model for HIV/AIDS prevention in the Latino community _(Letona, Mills & Upshur, in press); and Significant health issues among Massachusetts racial and ethnic minorities: A policy paper prepared for the Division of Medical Assistance (Upshur, Cortes, Chan, Turner, Besozzi & Mas, 1998).