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-: This study is super exciting,
'cause we're taking a family school partnership intervention
that we've been working on for years
and doing a lot of really great research on,
and really expanding it to be able to reach more families,
children, and teachers.
What this particular study is looking at
is being able to take this intervention,
Teachers and Parents as Partners, or TAPP for short,
and delivering it via distance technology like Zoom.
So we're calling it teleTAPP.
We're going to roll it out,
where we'll have the person who delivers the intervention
here on campus here in Nebraska,
but they'll be working with folks, students,
and parents and teachers in rural Appalachia.
-: In particular, we're gonna be working with students
who have some pretty serious challenging behaviors
that are interfering with their learning.
And by providing greater access
to their teachers and parents,
we'll be able to really target the kinds of things
that are getting in the way of students' success,
and turn that around and help them achieve goals
that otherwise would be quite daunting.
We'll be working in rural Appalachia,
where we know schools are sometimes lacking
in terms of access to specialized supports.
And frankly, in a lot of rural areas,
it's very difficult for families and schools to connect
for parents and teachers to come together.
These are the kinds of things that we can provide
through the TAPP intervention
that will make a significant difference
in these children's lives.
-: We're looking to work with about 190 students,
along with their parents and teachers
over the course of about four years.
So we're wanting to see how students are performing
and how parents and teachers
are reacting to the intervention
by gathering lots of different types of information,
so we can get a really nice picture of how things are going
and how well the intervention is looking.
-: Understanding the unique contextual factors
of not only working within a new region
like rural Appalachia,
but also the mechanism of service delivery
that we'll be utilizing
will provide a whole host of new opportunities for us
in terms of the possibilities
that we will ultimately see with this intervention.
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