Through the ongoing projects listed below, the Erikson faculty develops knowledge and improves early childhood practice in Chicago and throughout the nation.
Juliet Bromer
Development of a measurement tool to assess the quality of family-provider relationships across early care and education settings. More »
Jana Fleming, Aisha Ray
The assessment will highlight the strengths and challenges Chicago’s Altgeld-Riverdale community faces in providing high-quality early learning experiences for young children and their families More »
Andria Goss
Through this project, Erikson administers developmental screenings to children ages birth through three entering the foster care system in Cook County and coordinates assessments statewide. More »
Toby Herr
Project Match engages in program development and research in a range of fields related to low-income populations, including welfare-to-work, workforce development, housing, and community development. More »
The NIH-funded project examines the neurodevelopment of infants and young children. More »
The project provides training to local clinical teams in child-parent psychotherapy for young children and their families who have experienced trauma or domestic violence. More »
The study seeks to develop a practical and reliable tool for measuring program quality across different models of home visiting for families with infants and young children. More »
The project supports the transition of children receiving Early Intervention services (EI) to enrollment in Head Start programs. More »
Jana Fleming, Aisha Ray
The partnership, a collaboration of Erikson, Chicago Public Schools, and Austin Coming Together, is conducting a needs assessment of early childhood services in Chicago’s Austin community. More »
The study creates a new measure of parenting self-efficacy, or parents’ perceptions of their parenting abilities and competence in completing the specific tasks associated with parenting. More »
The study examines predictors of the use of infant health care during the first six months of life. More »
The nettwork provides support for families who have concerns about their baby’s crying, sleeping, feeding, or temperament during the first year of life. More »
The study refines existing and develops new approaches to family psychotherapy that address the socioemotional needs of both parents and children. More »
The study examines the impact of urban children’s literature on the reading development of children in city schools. More »
The study examined influencing factors of early school performance for kindergarteners with disabilities. More »
Professor Luisiana Meléndez is helping develop guidelines for practice for the Bounce Learning Network, an eight-state network of Educare schools, regarding dual language learners. More »
The study investigates facilitators and barriers to effective partnerships between preschool teachers and parents of young children with disabilities. More »
Christine Maxwell
The project partners with administrators and teachers in Chicago Public Schools to establish positive, effective learning environments for children in prekindergarten through third-grade classrooms. More »
The study examines the relationship between typical home-based learning activities and early school performance for children with disabilities. More »
The project engages teachers in professional development designed to support their use of a high-quality, multicultural classroom library as an effective and essential instructional tool. More »
The project designed and helped implement a program for Head Start and Early Head Start teachers on language and literacy development in young dual language learners. More »
The project will develop, pilot, and field test the Family Strengths and Needs Assessment (FSNA) tool focused on families of young children with disabilities and special health care needs. More »
The descriptive study attempts to identify what variables are associated with non-regular attendance of early care and education services More »
Jessica Manvell, Mark Nagasawa, Aisha Ray, Jana Fleming
Erikson is collaborating with Chicago Public Schools (CPS) on a two-year research study examining the current preschool policies and practices that support dual language learners. More »
A series of training seminars for the City Colleges of Chicago’s early childhood faculty to improve the quality of faculty knowledge and practice with diverse students. More »
The scale is an observational assessment for children from birth through 42 months of age and their families and one of the first performance-based assessments created for use in the first three years of life. More »
The project aims to improve the quality of early math education and ensure that young children are introduced to foundational mathematics. More »
Juliet Bromer
The project helped develop a logic model for an intervention that links child, family, and community outcomes with social capital development activities. More »
Juliet Bromer
Project examining the experiences of participants in the Early Childhood Specialist program run by the Catholic Schools in the city of Chicago. More »
Mariel Sparr, Jessica Fulford, Namrita Chawla, Jana Fleming, Jon Korfmacher
Evaluation of the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) Prevention Initiative (PI) Programs. More »
Jana Fleming
Evaluation of the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) Preschool for All programs. More »
Aisha Ray, Barbara T. Bowman, Jana Fleming
The study sought to improving efforts in Illinois to place the specific developmental and educational needs of culturally, racially, and linguistically diverse children explicitly within teacher standards, teacher certification, and teacher preparation in higher education. More »
The study investigated family outcomes of early intervention services for infants and toddlers with disabilities. More »
Samuel J. Meisels, Jana Fleming
Report by the The Kindergarten Readiness Stakeholder Committee for creating a statewide, research-based kindergarten assessment process. More »
Jolynne Andal
Research on the comparative effectiveness of three program inputs in improving Chicago Public School (CPS) preschoolers’ academic outcomes through first grade. More »
Juliet Bromer
This study analyzed the impact of family child care support networks established by a range of independent organizations in Chicago to improve the quality of care. More »
Samuel J. Meisels, Eboni Howard
Study of the impact, strengths, and weaknesses of Chicago's largest school- and center-based early care and education programs. More »
Abigail Duchatelier-Jeudy, Aimee Hilado, Jon Korfmacher, Eboni Howard
Researchers sought to inform and influence policies to improve mental health services for children ages birth to five and their families in Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. More »
