Bug-in-Ear Coaching: Impacts on Early Childhood Educators’ Practices and Associations With Toddlers’ Expressive Communication

Journal of Early Intervention

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 90-110

  Ottley, Jennifer Riggie ^a,b   Hanline, Mary Frances ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

audio coaching; bug in ear; inclusion; language and communication; professional development; single case methods; technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920548293     PISSN: 10538151     EISSN: 21543992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1053815114563614     Document Type: Article

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