The present paper concerns the methodology of quantitative documentation of the progress of Infants in early Intervention. programs. Example data from an infant intervention program are used to illustrate various steps which can be taken to increase the information available from an infant documentation effort. The present article discusses design and analysis issues concluding that the utilization of several designs and analytic techniques provides useful exploration of hypotheses in early intervention programs.
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