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Speech and Language Disorders in Children: Implications for the Social Security Administration's Supplemental Security Income Program
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Rosenbaum, Sara, Ed.; Simon, Patti, Ed. – National Academies Press, 2016
Speech and language are central to the human experience; they are the vital means by which people convey and receive knowledge, thoughts, feelings, and other internal experiences. Acquisition of communication skills begins early in childhood and is foundational to the ability to gain access to culturally transmitted knowledge, organize and share…
Descriptors: Public Agencies, Language Impairments, Speech Impairments, Children
Faces of Poverty: Portraits of Women and Children on Welfare.
Berrick, Jill Duerr – 1995
Stories of living on welfare are told by five women and their children. Each represents a group of women who use Aid to Families with Dependent Children. The reasons these women have turned to public aid, and their means of achieving self-sufficiency illustrate why welfare policy and family policy must be redefined to account for the differences…
Descriptors: Children, Family Programs, Fatherless Family, Females
Learning from Leaders: Welfare Reform Politics and Policy in Five Midwestern States.
Weissert, Carol S., Ed. – 2000
This book examines welfare reform, occasioned by the federal Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), which abolished Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and replaced it with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). It is based on research in Ohio, Kansas, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan that…
Descriptors: Adults, Change, Children, Compliance (Legal)
America's Children: Resources from Family, Government, and the Economy. A Census Monograph Series.
Hernandez, Donald J. – 1993
Drawing on census and survey data from 1940 to 1990, this book offers an overview of the dramatic transformations in American childhood over the past 50 years and presents the case for overhauling national child welfare policies. The first chapter examines the life course of children and provides an introduction to the remainder of the book.…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Child Welfare, Children, Day Care
Children in Families at Risk. Maintaining the Connections.
Combrinck-Graham, Lee, Ed. – 1995
This volume describes actual programs that are based on the idea that family connections are substantial resources for healing and recovery even when the family is a very troubled one. With a focus on severely damaged families, these programs attempt to keep children connected with their own families even when circumstances prevent their living…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Children, Community Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
Children and Their Families in Big Cities: Strategies for Service Reform.
Kahn, Alfred J., Ed.; Kamerman, Sheila B., Ed. – 1996
Papers in this collection result from an 18-month exploration of ways to reform services for children and families in big cities, a so-called "rolling seminar" searching for ways to provide supportive and nourishing communities for city children. Contributions to this collection include: (1) "Themes and Viewpoints" (Editors);…
Descriptors: Children, Community Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Needs
Poor Children and Welfare Reform.
Golden, Olivia – 1992
This book analyzes how welfare reform can improve the lives of children, based on a study of successful programs that provide services to needy children and their families. The study looked at programs that operated in conjunction with the welfare department before the enactment of the Family Support Act and that operated successfully. Chapter 1…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Case Studies, Child Welfare, Children
For Better and for Worse: Welfare Reform and the Well-Being of Children and Families.
Duncan, Greg J., Ed.; Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay, Ed. – 2001
Although the 1996 welfare reform bill reduced welfare rolls, falling caseloads do not necessarily mean a better standard of living for families. This book examines the evidence and evaluates whether welfare reform has met one of its chief goals--improving the well-being of the nation's poor children. The chapters of the book are as follows: (1)…
Descriptors: Births to Single Women, Child Rearing, Children, Day Care
Escape from Poverty: What Makes a Difference for Children?
Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay, Ed.; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne, Ed. – 1995
Children's poverty rate in the United States, over 20%, exceeds that of all industrialized nations except Australia. This interdisciplinary book examines the impact of changing public policies on children. Section 1 gives a current and historical overview of children in poverty. Sections 2 through 5 address arenas of possible change from policy…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Support, Childhood Attitudes, Children