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>> Boone, Harriet

Harriet Boone’s research focuses on innovative personnel development models as well as ethics and early childhood interventions.  She has published and presented papers regarding the preparation of interdisciplinary personnel, preparation of social inclusion facilitators for preschool and elementary settings, hospital-based early interventions and ethics and early intervention.  She has studied the effectiveness of interdisciplinary models of personnel training by measuring graduates’ competencies and skills and by documenting their effects on young children’s learning and development.  Through extensive interviews with families, she has documented the effects of developmental therapy and family- centered interventions in health care settings.  Her primary research interests focus on the ethical dilemmas of practice in early intervention settings in which she has conducted ethnographic interviews with professionals and family members and conducted focus groups with professionals.

Boone’s research has been published in Teacher Education, Special Education, Infants and Young Children, Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, Journal of Early Intervention and The Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education. 

Currently, Boone is interested in community practice models for integrating research and teacher education.  She is pursuing work with teachers and families in school communities.