Across our website, you can see examples of the crucial work being done at FPG by our scientists, specialists, and scholars over a broad range of disciplines, including autism and developmental disabilities,child health and development, early care and education, and more. This wide-ranging work significantly impacts children and families throughout North Carolina, the United States, and around the world.
Keep reading to see spotlights on some of our 60+ current projects and learn more about the reach and impact of our work.
Our day-to-day impact | Project spotlights
SCRIPT-NC
Through technical assistance, professional development, course enhancement presentations, community workshops, and national webinars, SCRIPT-NC has been helping community college faculty prepare and train educators to support children with and without disabilities and their families for more than 14 years.
TRI
Since 2005, Targeted Reading Instruction (TRI) has worked with teachers and students in rural counties across North Carolina and the US to strengthen classroom reading instruction. TRI’s 15-minute daily reading intervention is designed to rapidly accelerate reading progress and build capacity for teaching reading.
AFIRM
Autism Focused Intervention Resources and Modules (AFIRM), which is celebrating its 10th anniversary, offers free online learning tools designed to help educators, caregivers, and professionals to effectively support individuals on the autism spectrum from birth to 22 years of age.
DaSy
The Center for IDEA Early Childhood Data Systems (DaSy) is a national technical assistance center that works with state early intervention and early childhood special education programs funded under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to build high quality state data systems and use data to improve results for young children, ages birth to 5, with disabilities and their families.
ECTA
The Early Childhood Technical Assistance (ECTA) Center supports all states and jurisdictions with building high-quality state and local systems to implement evidence-based practices that result in positive outcomes for young children with disabilities (birth-age 5) and their families and supports states with implementing the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
SISEP
The State Implementation & Scaling-up of Evidence-based Practices (SISEP) Center is dedicated to supporting the implementation, scaling, and sustainability of evidence-based practices to improve outcomes for students with disabilities and has become one of the cornerstones of implementation science for the field of education.
STEMIE
The STEM Innovation for Inclusion in Early Education (STEMIE) Center is a technical assistance and dissemination center that works to elevate early childhood professionals, faculty, and families’ competence and confidence in early STEM learning for young children with disabilities.
Our Projects and Publications
Our Projects
Research is at the heart of all we do at the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute. As one of the nation's foremost multidisciplinary centers devoted to the study of children from infancy to adolescence, our scientists are committed to conducting research and evaluation studies and carrying out technical assistance and implementation projects that improve children's lives, support families, and inform public policy.
Our Publications
Over the years, people from more than 180 countries have relied on our publications and resources to support their work on behalf of children and families. Our library includes more than 2,600 journal articles, policy briefs, assessment tools, learning modules, and multimedia to support multiple audiences at home and abroad.
