## Project DATA instructional programs: mealtime Read the excerpt and see a DATA sample instructional program for mealtime. ## How to use the DATA Model to help preschool students with autism thrive Learn how to use The DATA Model to combine two essential elements of effective learning for young children with ASD—frequent interaction with typically developing peers and intensive individualized intervention—into one integrated school-based approach. ## Intervention to Equalize Early Experience This final chapter of Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children explores the authors' conclusions from their groundbreaking word gap study and proposes strategies for leveling the playing field. ## DATA Model Skills Checklist: Curriculum Crosswalk View this crosswalk of the DATA Model Skills Checklist with the Assessment, Evaluation, Programming System (AEPS). The crosswalk with the AEPS includes both the birth to 3 and the 3 to 6 assessments. ## AEPSI Child Assessments: Creating a New Child Observation Data Recording Form This section of the AEPSi Provider Guide explains how to use the Child Assessments page of the AEPS online system.