IGDI Publications & Presentations

Carta, J., Greenwood, C., Walker, D., & , Buzhardt, J. (2010). Using IGDIs: Monitoring Progress and Improving Intervention for Infants and YounBuzhardtg Children. Brookes Publishing Company: Baltimore, MD.

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• Individual Growth and Development Indicators: (IGDIs): Assessment that Gudies Intervention for Young Children (Carta, Greenwood, Walker, Kaminski, Good, McConnell, & McEvoy)
• The Early Communication Indicator (ECI) for Infants and Toddlers: What It Is, Where It's Been, and Where It Needs to Go (Greenwood, Dunn, Ward, & Luze, 2002)
• Developing a General Outcome Measure of Growth in Movement for Infants and Toddlers (Greenwood, Luze, Kline, Kuntz, & Leitschuh, 2002)
• Developing a general outcome measure of growth in social skills for infants and toddlers.s (Carta, Greenwood, Luze, Cline, & Kuntz, 2004)

Seleccted presentations available to view/download (require Microsoft Power Point)

• Web support for data-based decision making (DEC 2010 - Buzhardt, Walker, & Greenwood)
• Using progress monitoring to support RTI services for infants and toddlers (DEC 2008 - Greenwood, Buzhardt, Walker, Gruba, & Haupert)
• Individual Growth and Development Indicators for Infants and Toddlers (IGDI's): Extending DIBELS to Children Younger than Kindergarten (Greenwood, Carta, and Walker, 2004)
• Growth Indicators for Infants and Toddlers (Greenwood, 2001)
• Early Communication Indicators:Monitoring the Progress of Infants and Toddlers (Walker, Carta, and Greenwood)
• Background of the Early Communication Indicator for Infants and Toddlers(Walker, Carta, and Greenwood, 2004)
• Learning How To Administer the ECI (Walker, Carta, and Greenwood, 2004)
• Teaching Others How to Use the ECI (Walker, Carta, and Greenwood, 2004)
• IPCI Overview (Baggett and Carta, 2007)

Published reports not available to view/download from this website

Baggett, K. M., & Carta, J. J. (2006). Using assessment to guide social-emotional intervention for very young children: An individual growth and development indicator (IGDI) of parent-child interaction. Young Exceptional Children Monograph Series, 8, 67-76.

Buzhardt, J., Greenwood, C., Walker, D., Carta, J., Terry, B., Garrett, M. (2010). A Web-based Tool to Support Data-based Early Intervention Decision Making. Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 29, 4, 201-213.

Cadigan, K. & Missall, K. N. (2007). Measuring expressive language growth in young children with autism spectrum disorders. Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 27, 2, 110-118 .

Carta, J. J. (2002). An early childhood special education research agenda in a culture of accountability for results. Journal of Early Intervention, 25(2), 102-104.

Carta, J. J., Greenwood, C. R., Luze, G. J., Cline, G., & Kuntz, S. (2004). Developing a general outcome measure of growth in social skills for infants and toddlers. Journal of Early Intervention, 26 (2), 91-114.

Carta, J. J., Greenwood, C. R., Walker, D., Kaminski, R., Good, R., McConnell, S., & McEvoy, M. (2002). Individual growth and development indicators (IGDIs): Assessment that guides intervention for young children. Young Exceptional Children Monograph Series, 4(15-28).

ECRI-MGD. (1998a). Accountability system for children birth through age eight (Technical Report 1). Minneapolis, MN: Center for Early Education and Development, University of Minnesota.

ECRI-MGD. (1998b). Research an development of individual growth and development indicators for children birth to age eight (Technical Report 4). Minneapolis, MN: Early Childhood Research Institute Measuring Growth and Development.

ECRI-MGD. (1998c). Selection of general growth outcomes for children birth through age eight (Technical Report 2). Minneapolis, MN: Center for Early Education and Development, University of Minnesota.

ECRI-MGD. (1998d). Theoretical foundations of the Early Childhood Research Institute on Measuring Growth and Development: An early childhood problem solving model (Technical Report 6). Minneapolis: Center for Early Education and Development.

Greenwood, C., Buzhardt, J., Walker, D., Anderson, R., Howard, W., & Carta, J. (in press). Program-level Influences on the Measurement of Early Communication of Infants and Toddlers in Early Head Start. Journal of Early Intervention.

Greenwood, C. R., Carta, J. J., Baggett, K., Buzhardt, J., Walker, D., & Terry, B. (2007). Best practices in integrating response-to-intervention concepts into early childhood systems. In A. Thomas, J. Grimes & J. Gruba (Eds.), Best practices in school psychology V pp. 535-548. Washington DC: National Association of School Psychology.

Greenwood, C. R., Carta, J. J., & Walker, D. (2005). Individual growth and development indicators (IGDIs): Tools for assessing intervention results for infants and toddlers. In B. Heward & et al. (Eds.), Focus on Behavior Analysis in Education: Achievements, Challenges, and Opportunities (Chapter 6) (pp. 103-124). Columbus, OH: Pearson/Prentice-Hall.

Greenwood , C. R., Carta, J. J., Walker , D., Hughes, K., & Weathers, M. (2006). Preliminary investigations of the application of the Early Communication Indicator (ECI) for infants and toddlers. Journal of Early Intervention, 28, 178 -196.

Greenwood, C. R., Dunn, S., Ward, S. M., & Luze, G. J. (2003). The Early Communication Indicator (ECI) for infants and toddlers: What it is, where it's been, and where it needs to go. The Behavior Analyst Today, 3(4), 383-388.

Greenwood, C. R., Luze, G. J., & Carta, J. J. (2002). Assessment of intervention results with infants and toddlers. In A. Thomas, & J. Grimes (Eds.), Best practices in school psychology IV (Vol. 2, pp. 1219-1230). Washington DC: National Association of School Psychology.

Greenwood, C. R., Luze, G. J., Cline, G., Kuntz, S., & Leitschuh, C. (2002). Developing a general outcome measure of growth in movement for infants and toddlers. Topics Early Childhood Special Education, 22(3), 143-157.

Greenwood, C., Walker, D. Buzhardt, J. (2010). The Early Communication Indicator (ECI) for Infants and Toddlers: Growth Norms from Two States. Journal of Early Intervention, 32, 5, 310-334.

Greenwood, C. R., Walker, D., Carta, J. J., & Higgins, S. (2006). Developing a general outcome measure of growth in the cognitive abilities of children 1 to 4 years old: The Early Problem-Solving Indicator. School Psychology Review, 35(4), 535-551.

Harjusola-Webb, S. M. (2006). The use of naturalistic communication intervention with young children who have developmental disabilities. (Doctoral dissertation, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 2006). Dissertation Abstracts International, A 67/04, 1290. [Publication number: AAT 3216284].

Hojnoski, R. L. & Missall, K. N. (2007). Monitoring preschoolers’ language and early literacy growth and development. Young Exceptional Children, 10, 3, 17-27.

Kirk, S. (2006). The effects of using outcome measures and progress monitoring to guide language-promoting interventions in Early Head Start Programs. (Doctoral Dissertation, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS). Dissertation Abstracts International, A 67/02, 519. [Publication number: AAT 3207867].

Kosanic, A. Z. (2000). Toward a technology for monitoring growth in the expressive communication of infants and toddlers. Unpublished Master's Thesis, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.

Luze, G. J., Linebarger, D. L., Greenwood, C. R., Carta, J. J., Walker, D., Leitschuh, C., & Atwater, J. B. (2001). Developing a general outcome measure of growth in expressive communication of infants and toddlers. School Psychology Review, 30(3), 383-406.

McConnell, S. (2003). Get it, Got it, Go! Minneapolis, MN: Institute on Community Integration, University of Minnesota, Online at http://ggg.umn.edu.

McConnell, S. R. (2000). Assessment in early intervention and early childhood special education: Building on the past to project into the future. Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 20, 43-48.

McConnell, S. R., McEvoy, M. A., Carta, J. J., Greenwood, C. R., Kaminski, R., Good, R. H., & Shinn, M. (1998). Research and development of exploring solutions assessments for children between birth and age eight. ERIC ED452639. Retrieved, from the World Wide Web.

McConnell S. R., & Missall, K. N. (2007). Best practices in assessment of children ages three to five. To appear in A. Thomas & J. Grimes (Eds.), Best practices in school psychology V. Bethesda, MD: National Association of School Psychologists.

McConnell, S. R., Priest, J. S., Davis, S. D., & McEvoy, M. A. (2001). Best practices in measuring growth and development for preschool children. In A. Thomas, & J. Grimes (Eds.), Best practices in school psychology IV (Vol. 2). Washington, DC: National Association of School Psychologists.

McEvoy, M. A., Priest, J. S., Kaminski, R., Carta, J. J., Greenwood, C. R., McConnell, S. R., Good, R. H., Walker, D., & Shinn, M. (2001). General growth outcomes: Wait! There's more! Journal of Early Intervention, 24(3), 191-192.

Missal, K., N., Carta, J. J., McConnell, S., Walker, D., & Greenwood, C. R. (2008). Using individual growth and development indicators to measure early language and literacy. Infants and young Children, 21, 3, 241-253 .

Missall, K. N., & McConnell, S. R. (2004). Technical Report: Psychometric characteristics of individual growth and development indicators – Picture Naming, Rhyming & Alliteration. Minneapolis, MN: Center for Early Education and Development http://ggg.umn.edu/techreports/dissemination.html#TechRep

Missall, K. N., McConnell, S. R. & Cadigan, K. (2006). Early literacy development: Skill growth and relations between classroom variables for preschool children. Journal of Early Intervention, 2 (1). 1-21.

Missall, K., Reschly, A., Betts, J., McConnell, S., Heistad, D., Pickart, M., Sheran, C., & Marston, D. (2007). Examination of the Predictive Validity of Preschool Early Literacy Skills. School Psychology Review, 36, 3, 433-453.

Murray, A. (2002). Implementing a language intervention in a childcare setting using prelinguistic language-teaching techniques. Unpublished Master's Thesis, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.

Phaneuf, R.L. & Silberglitt, B. (2003). Tracking Preschoolers' Language and Preliteracy Development Using a General Outcome Measurement System. Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 23(3), 114-123.

Priest, J. S., McConnell, S. R., Walker, D., Carta, J. J., Kaminski, R. A., McEvoy, M. A., Good, R. H., III, Greenwood, C. R., & Shinn, M. R. (2001). General growth outcomes for children: Developing a foundation for continuous progress measurement. Journal of Early Intervention, 24(3), 163-180.

Small, C. J. (2004). A collaborative intervention to increase the communication use of toddlers with and without disabilities in inclusive child care environments. Unpublished master's thesis, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.

Walker, D., Carta, J. J., Greenwood, C. R., & Buzhardt, J. (2008). The Use of Individual Growth and Developmental Indicators for Progress Monitoring and Intervention Decision Making in Early Education. Exceptionality, 16, 1, 33-47.