About ECIPC

Our Purpose

Who We Are

Attract

Interdisciplinary ECI scholars, faculty, administrators, and practitioners are dedicated specialists.
Moreover, they are committed to improving outcomes for infants and young children with delays or disabilities.
To be more precise, their work supports progress in the field of early childhood intervention.

Prepare

Interdisciplinary and competent ECI personnel are essential to delivering effective services.
In particular, they support infants and young children with delays or disabilities.
To accomplish this, they implement intentional and proactive learning activities, training, and technical assistance.

Retain

Interdisciplinary and competent ECI personnel play a vital role in improving outcomes.
Most specifically, they support infants and young children with delays or disabilities, as well as their families.

Our Work

The goal is to increase the capacity of Institutions of Higher Education, states, territories, and tribal nations.
To achieve this, the initiative specifically focuses on implementing interdisciplinary programs of study at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
Ultimately, these programs aim to prepare students with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions needed to deliver early childhood intervention that is individually responsive, appropriate, and effective for infants and young children with disabilities and their families.

Early Childhood Intervention

Each eligible infant and young child and their family will have opportunities to access and fully participate in individualized and effective early childhood intervention. Importantly, this intervention will be responsive and appropriate to their needs, wants, and backgrounds. Moreover, it will be delivered by qualified, competent, and interdisciplinary administrators, practitioners, and faculty in the home, and in programs and places where typically developing young children play and learn. As a result, these efforts will lead to improved child and family outcomes.

Our Conceptual Framework

The conceptual framework for the Early Childhood Intervention Personnel Center illustrates the contexts, systems, programs, and services in which an infant or young child with disabilities or delays—and their family—interact in order to achieve improved outcomes.

To bring this vision to life, the Center will facilitate the development and implementation of programs of study at Institutions of Higher Education (IHEs) and within state systems of professional development.
In addition, it will establish partnerships with states to recruit and retain a diverse workforce and assist in implementing equitable components of the intervention process.

Consequently, all families and their children will have equitable opportunities to access and participate in early childhood intervention programs, services, and supports that are culturally, racially, ethnically, and linguistically responsive, and individualized to meet each child and family’s unique needs.