The ISU Department of Special Education is looking for participants for an exciting research project funded by the Institute of Educational Sciences (IES), US Department of Education.  The project is called Parent-Implemented Communication Strategies, or PiCS.

Title of the Project: Parent-Implemented Communication Strategies (PiCS) project

Purpose of the Project: We are Drs. Hedda Meadan, Maureen Angell, and Julia Stoner from the Department of Special Education at Illinois State University.  We invite you to participate in an exciting research project that focuses on improving the communication skills of young children with developmental delays.  The project involves teaching and coaching parents in their homes to use strategies that will promote and enhance the communication skills of their young children.  We feel this project is important since it will lead to the development of intervention strategies for your child and will provide information that we will use to develop communication interventions that many parents can use in their homes with their young children with developmental delays.