{"id":2591,"date":"2020-11-10T09:25:04","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T14:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/asap\/?p=2591"},"modified":"2021-09-07T10:16:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T14:16:26","slug":"pd-asap-development-grant-making-professional-development-work-for-preschool-classroom-teams-serving-students-with-asd-adapting-a-pd-model-using-normalization-process-theory-funded-by-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/asap\/2020\/11\/pd-asap-development-grant-making-professional-development-work-for-preschool-classroom-teams-serving-students-with-asd-adapting-a-pd-model-using-normalization-process-theory-funded-by-the\/","title":{"rendered":"PD-ASAP Development grant \u2013 Making Professional Development Work for Preschool Classroom Teams Serving Students with ASD: Adapting a PD Model Using Normalization Process Theory &#8211; Funded by the National Center for Special Education Research; Institute for Education Sciences: R324A200188 Award Period: 07\/01\/2020-06\/30\/2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Purpose: This project aims to develop and test an adapted professional development (PD) model to be used with the\u00a0Advancing Social-communication And Play (ASAP)\u00a0intervention, which is an intervention that focuses on improving early social communication and play skills of preschool children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Research suggests that current PD models may not sufficiently improve educator practice and student outcomes or lead to sustained implementation. To address this, the project will iteratively develop\u00a0ASAP Professional Development for Preschool Teams (PD-ASAP), which will be a model grounded in Normalization Process Theory, an implementation science approach used in complex health interventions. The PD model aims to be more feasible for preschool educational teams, more effective in changing educator practices (including\u00a0ASAP\u00a0implementation), and to enhance student outcomes. The pilot study will examine the impact of\u00a0PD-ASAP\u00a0on educator burnout, self-efficacy, and adherence to\u00a0ASAP\u00a0fidelity as well as on student classroom engagement, social-communication, and play skills. The pilot study will also include a cost analysis of the\u00a0PD-ASAP.<\/p>\n<h3>Personnel:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Jessica Steinbrenner, PhD (PI)<\/li>\n<li>Stephanie Reszka, PhD (Co-PI)<\/li>\n<li>Linda Watson, EdD (Co-PI)<\/li>\n<li>Other key contributors: Wanqing Zhang, MD, PhD (Investigator), Laura Kuhn, Jessica Meredith, Susan Szendrey, Heba Elsayed, Yu Xie<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purpose: This project aims to develop and test an adapted professional development (PD) model to be used with the\u00a0Advancing Social-communication And Play (ASAP)\u00a0intervention, which is an intervention that focuses on improving early social communication and play skills of preschool children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Research suggests that current PD models may not sufficiently improve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/asap\/2020\/11\/pd-asap-development-grant-making-professional-development-work-for-preschool-classroom-teams-serving-students-with-asd-adapting-a-pd-model-using-normalization-process-theory-funded-by-the\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about PD-ASAP Development grant \u2013 Making Professional Development Work for Preschool Classroom Teams Serving Students with ASD: Adapting a PD Model Using Normalization Process Theory &#8211; Funded by the National Center for Special Education Research; Institute for Education Sciences: R324A200188 Award Period: 07\/01\/2020-06\/30\/2024\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55977,"featured_media":2593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/asap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/443\/2020\/11\/Bondurant-Hall-scaled.jpg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/asap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/443\/2020\/11\/Bondurant-Hall-300x200.jpg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/asap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/443\/2020\/11\/Bondurant-Hall-768x512.jpg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/asap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/443\/2020\/11\/Bondurant-Hall-1024x683.jpg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/asap\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/443\/2020\/11\/Bondurant-Hall-150x150.jpg","featured_image_alt":"Bondurant Hall","category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/asap\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/asap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/asap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/asap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/asap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/asap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/asap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/asap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/asap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/asap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/healthsciences\/asap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}