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Judith Carta Ph.D., Professor-Senior Scientist - (SPED)  • Special Education Website Principle Investigator and Senior Scientist - Juniper Gardens Children's Project (JGCP)
	Academic Degrees: Ph.D. , Early Childhood Special Education , University of Kansas , 1983 M.S. , Major: Child Psychoogy - Minor: Language Development & Disorders , Purdue University , West Lafayette , Indiana , 1974 B.A. , Psychology , Bradley University , Peoria , Illinois , 1972 Specialization(s): Response to intervention in Pre-K, evidence-based practices for young children, risk factors affecting children's development, monitoring progress in young children, and parenting interventions and effects on young children. Curriculum Vitae	Contact Information: Juniper Gardens Children's Project University of Kansas 650 Minnesota Avenue, 2nd Floor Kansas City, KS 66101-2806 Phone:913/321-3143 E-mail: carta@ku.edu Fax: 913/371-8522

Recent Work:

Awards/Honors

• Council for Exceptional Children, Division of Early Childhood, Mary McEvoy Service to the Field Award (2007)
• Council for Exceptional Children, Kansas Division for Early Childhood, Award of Excellence (2007)
• Iowa State University, Carol Hansen Visiting Lecturer (2004-2005)
• Bowie State University Department of Special Education Visiting Scholar (2003-2004)

Book Chapters

• Greenwood, C. R., Carta, J. J., Baggett, K, Buzhardt, J., Walker, D. & Terry, B. (in press). Integrating progress monitoring and response to intervention concepts into early childhood systems for infants and toddlers. In A. Thomas, J. Grimes & J. Gruba (Eds.), Best practices in school psychology V. Washington, DC: National Association of School Psychology.
• Carta, J. J. & Kong, N. Y. (in press). Trends and issues in interventions for preschoolers with developmental disabilities. In S. L. Odom, R. H. Horner, M. Snell and J. Blacher (Eds.) Handbook on Developmental Disabilities. Guilford Press.
• Greenwood, C. R., Carta, J. J., & Walker, D. (2005). Individual growth and development indicators: Tools for assessing intervention results for infants and toddlers. In W. L. Heward et al. (Eds.) Focus on behavior analysis in education: Achievements, challenges and opportunities .  Merrill: Columbus , OH.
• Carta, J. J., Greenwood , C. R., & Walker , D. (2003). Monitoring children's growth and development using general outcome measurement (pp. 161-176). In B. F. Williams. (Ed.) Directions in early intervention and assessment. Spokane, WA: Spokane Guilds' School and Neuromuscular Center.
• Carta, J. J., & Atwater, J. B. (2003). Understanding and addressing the impact of multiple environmental risks on children's development (pp. 225-244). In B. F. Williams. (Ed.) Directions in early intervention and assessment. Spokane, WA: Spokane Guilds' School and Neuromuscular Center.
• Carta, J. J., Greenwood , C.R., Walker , D., Kaminski, R., Good, R., McConnell, S. R., & McEvoy, M.A. (2002). Individual Growth and Development Indicators (IGDIs): Assessment that guides intervention for young children. In M. Ostrosky & E. Horn (Eds.). Assessment: Gathering meaningful information. The Young Exceptional Children Monograph Series #4, 15-28.

Books

• Carta, J. J., Elliott, M., Orth-Lopes, L., Schwartz, I. S., Atwater , J. B., Scherer, H, & Schiefelbusch, J. (2001). Project SLIDE: Skills for Learning Independence in Developmentally Appropriate Environments.  Sopris West Publishing. Longmont , CO.

Journal Articles

• Guerrero, J. & Carta, J.  (in press). Assessing Vocabulary and the Bilingual Environment in Young Latino Children. ASHA Division 14, Communication Disorders and Sciences in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations Newsletter.
• Baggett, K., & Carta, J. J. (in press). 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.
• Wall, S. M., Kisker, E. E., Peterson, C. A., Carta, J. J. & Jeon, H. J. (2006). Child care for low-income children with disabilities:  Access, quality and parent satisfaction.  Journal of Early Intervention, 28, 283-297.
• 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.
• 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.
• Dunlap, G., Strain, P.S., Fox, L., Carta, J.J., Conroy, M., Smith, B., Kern, L., Hemmeter, M. L., Timm, M. L., McCart, A., Sailor, W., Markey, U., Markey, D.J., Lardieri, S., & Sowell, C. (2006). Prevention and intervention with young children's challenging behavior: A summary and perspective regarding current knowledge. Behavioral Disorders, 32, 29-45.
• Bailey, D. B., Bruder, M.B., Hebbeler, K., Carta, J., Defosset, M., Greenwood, C., Kahn, L., Mallik, S., Markowitz, J., Spiker, D., Walker, D., & Barton, L. (2006). Recommended outcomes for families of young children with disabilities. Journal of Early Intervention, 28, 227-243.
• Peterson, P., Carta, J. J., & Greenwood , C. R. (2005). The effects of teaching enhanced milieu language teaching skills to parents in multiple risk families. Journal of Early Intervention, 27, 94-109
• 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, 91-114.
• Carta, J. (2002). An Early Childhood Special Education Research Agenda in a Culture of Accountability for Results. Journal of Early Intervention .
• McConnell, S. R., Rush, K. L., McEvoy, M. A., Carta, J. J., Atwater , J., & Williams, R. (2002). Descriptive and experimental analysis of child-caregiver interactions that promote development of young children exposed prenatally to drugs and alcohol. Journal of Behavioral Education, 11, 131-161.
• Carta, J. J., Greenwood , C.R., Walker , D., Kaminski, R., Good, R., McConnell, S. R., & McEvoy, M.A. (2002). Individual Growth and Development Indicators (IGDIs): Assessment that guides intervention for young children. In M. Ostrosky & E. Horn (Eds.). Assessment: Gathering meaningful information. The Young Exceptional Children Monograph Series #4, 15-28.

Magazine/Newsletter Articles

• Raikes, H., Love, J.M., Kisker, E. E., Chazan-Cohen, R., Tarullo, L.,B., Jerald, J., Staker, M., & Carta, J. (2002). Early Head Start Research-Program Partnerships. The Evaluation Exchange Newsletter, Spring Issue
• Raikes, H., Love, J.M., Kisker, E. E., Chazan-Cohen, R., Tarullo, L.,B., Jerald, J., Staker, M., & Carta, J. (2002). Early Head Start Research-Program Partnerships. The Evaluation Exchange Newsletter, Spring Issue.

Websites

• Infant Growth and Development Indicators for Infants and Toddlers, Juniper Gardens Children's Project. http://www.igdi.ku.edu/
  Infant Growth and Development Indicators for Infants and Toddlers site is dedicated to assessing the results of early intervention and early childhood special education services provided young children birth through age 3. IGDIs enable early childhood practitioners to monitor and estimate children's growth and progress, impacting intervention design, implementation, and modification at reasonable levels of training, time, and cost.
• Juniper Gardens Children's Project, The University of Kansas. http://jgcp.ku.edu/
  JGCP began in the mid-1960s when residents of Northeast Kansas City, Kansas, joined with KU faculty to address concerns about child development in a low-income community. Together, the KCK community and JGCP have designed programs to improve the parenting, care, and instruction received by children in Kansas and throughout the country.

Current Grants/Projects

• Horn, E., Carta, J. J., & Thompson, B. J.(2007-2011). University of Kansas Teacher Educators for Early Childhood Special Education Leadership Personnel Preparation Project (KU-TEECH). US Department of Education, Division of Personnel Preparation. $800,000
  This personnel preparation grant helps prepare leadership personnel in early childhood special education/early childhood, particularly focusing on leadership in teacher education. This grant will help prepare students, including those from traditionally under-represented groups, with the knowledge and skills necessary to become highly effective ECSE/ECE teacher educators. A core of leadership coursework, grounded in the evidence base of effective practice in early childhood special education, teacher education, and policy leadership, will help program graduates fill in key ECSE/ECE teacher education vacancies across the United States.
• Greenwood, C. R., & Carta, J. J. (2008-2013). Center for Response to Intervention in Early Childhood (CRTIEC). National Center for Special Education Research, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. $10,000,000.
  The aim of this research is to develop and validate tier 2 and tier 3 language and early literacy interventions for preschoolers who are not responsive to the tier 1 curriculum. Other aims include developing new and improving existing progress monitoring measures, provide national leadership, and disseminate new knowledge.
• Greenwood, C. R., Carta, J. J., & Walker, D. (2004-2009). Center on Early Childhood Outcomes for Infants, Toddlers, and Preschools with Disabilities. Juniper Gardens Children's Project subcontract to SRI International, Kathy Hebbeler, PI. Office of Special Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education H324L030002. $580,000.