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 that improve children's lives, support families, and inform public policy.
Learn more about our projects—current and completed—by clicking on the links below. And to stay up to date on news and events related to our work via social media, visit our Project Digital Directory.
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This workshop, Building a Sexual Assault Prevention Model that Respects, Supports, and Protects Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities, created a supportive environment for discussion about sexual assault prevention and how to create opportunities for both person-centered and systems action on a local and state level. Topics included foundational concepts of healthy sexuality, effective principles of prevention, the public health model of prevention, and policy approaches to prevention.
The Children's Trust of South Carolina is planning to scale-up the Triple P – Positive Parenting Program system of interventions in several South Carolina communities. FPG's Implementation Capacity for Triple P (ICTP) project team, already working to support a similar statewide Triple P initiative in North Carolina, is providing active implementation support and implementation science guidance to help the South Carolina Triple P project become successful and sustainable.
Southeast Raleigh Promise (SER) seeks to answer the question: “What does it take to improve quality of early childhood programming and workforce in their participating child care centers?” The National Implementation Research Network (NIRN) within Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute will conduct an implementation study to answer this question and provide consultation supports in the use of the data collected for continuous improvement purposes.
This study compares segmental and prosody/voice features and speech intelligibility and aims to identify potential mechanisms underlying individual differences in speech intelligibility of boys with FXS, Down syndrome (DS), and typical development (TD) to determine whether individual differences in speech production relate to FXS specifically or to MR in general.
The purpose of this administrative supplement is to enhance the efficiency and completeness of the acoustic and perceptual data collection of the parent grant, Speech of Young Males with Fragile X Syndrome. The primary objective of the parent grant is to determine segmental and suprasegmental features of speech production that influence intelligibility in boys with fragile X and Down syndromes.
The primary purpose of this study is to investigate developmental pathways from infant to adolescent attachment security and to evaluate changes in attachment security in relation to social functioning and to changes in contextual factors. Central questions concern the ways in which security of attachment and working models of attachment predict the nature and quality of friendships and romantic relationships in late adolescence.
The North Carolina Division of Child Development and Early Education is funding a statewide Birth-5 Needs Assessment as part of an initial federal requirement of the Preschool Development Grant. The B-5 NA will be used in developing a statewide strategic plan to strengthen the early childhood system.
While there are many benefits to regular engagement in physical activity, individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) with intellectual disability (ID) often do not engage in healthy levels of
physical activity. This study will examine the impact of using self-management components to increase physical activity for adults with ASD and ID as well as its feasibility in home settings.
This project will examine the associations between distal and proximal influences, namely economic adversity and maladaptive parent-child interactions and relationships, and children’s immunological functioning in middle childhood. Both existing data from the Family Life Project and new data collection will be used to test the proposed hypotheses.
Margaret Burchinal, FPG statistician, will collaborate with Mathematica Policy Research on a contract with ACF to design a study to provide information about partnerships between Early Head Start programs and local child care programs.
This project will provide technical assistance to the NC Preschool Exceptional Children Program in the Office of Early Learning (OEL).
The National Implementation Research Network (NIRN) will support effective and quality implementation of the New Jersey Department of Children and Families' Family Success Centers' (FSC) Practice Profile across their network of providers.
This project will provide support for a process to enhance the curriculum at Tacoma Community College by incorporating evidence-based practices and content. The work will include developing opportunities for coursework and practica with an emphasis on young children with disabilities and their families.
This plan for this project includes the identification of a district teacher, who is an experienced TRI instructor, to assume the role of TRI specialist and trainer; the arrangement of training from the UNC TRI team for the specialist; and the establishment of procedures necessary to ensure fidelity of implementation in all schools.
In this NC Quest project, the School of Education, the College of Arts and Sciences, and Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at UNC-Chapel Hill will partner with Bertie County Schools to provide intensive literacy instruction professional development to kindergarten, first grade, and second grade teachers and their struggling readers at approximately 4 schools in one high-need local educational agency.
The School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill aims to provide an interdisciplinary graduate program of study for Birth–Kindergarten professionals who will be highly qualified to teach young children with and without disabilities with a specialization in working with immigrant children and families experiencing poverty.
This short-term exploratory study will seek to systematically gather input from stakeholders with expertise in technical assistance to develop a compilation of technical assistance strategies used to support the use of research evidence in child welfare, as well as definitions of these strategies. The study will categorize technical assistance strategies that include stakeholder involvement and assess which strategies under what conditions facilitated research use.
This study will utilize data from an ongoing, epidemiologically-derived, prospective longitudinal study to test whether early indices of temperament predict the emergence of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in 1st grade.
This project involved multiple tasks including the provision of intensive, implementation-focused technical assistance to promote the scaling-up of evidence-based practices to improve child and family outcomes post-permanency, and a program evaluation to assess implementation fidelity and outcomes.
