School-based Support for Pre-school Aged Children With Developmental Disabilities and Delays
Trial Parameters
Brief Summary
This proposal aims to test whether a proposed community-clinical linkage (CCL), an educational-medical linkage model, improves access to school-based services and subsequent child, parent, family and health service outcomes and offers a promising strategy to address longstanding racial, ethnic and income health care disparities among families with preschool children with developmental delays and disabilities. The investigators designed an educational-clinical linkage model, Preschool and Me (PreM) which incorporates key components of a CCL. It also utilizes a personalized medical-education care plan with remote lay navigator support to increase access to school-based services.
Eligibility Criteria
Parent-child dyads who meet inclusion criteria will be enrolled. Child inclusion criteria are: 1. Meets age requirements for early childhood special education (ECSE) services for Illinois (i.e., 3-5 years old); 2. diagnosed with a developmental delay or disability (DD) or determined to be at risk for DD (clinical concerns raised by primary care provider/healthcare provider or by parents at the time of enrollment); 3. is not receiving any ECSE services. Exclusion Criteria: if inclusion criteria is met, no other exclusion criteria will be applied. Parent inclusion criteria are: 1. aged18 years or older; 2. lives in Chicago; 3. speaks English or Spanish; 4. a legal guardian of a child who meets inclusion criteria.