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Bloch, Judith Simon; Seitz, Martin – 1985
Intended for people interested in replicating the ideas contained in this manual in their own communities, the handbook describes the Family Exchange Center (FEC), an approach designed to support families with developmentally disabled children. Services offered include social, recreational, educational, mutual aid, support, and respite activities.…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Family Programs, Models, Parent School Relationship
Deiner, Penny L.; Whitehead, Linda C. – 1988
The Delaware FIRST Program is designed to meet the needs of handicapped infants and toddlers through trained family day care providers. The program is based on a developmental family systems approach. It strives to provide families with ongoing support by offering mainstreamed family day care or respite care, by developing and/or facilitating an…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Disabilities, Family Day Care, Family Involvement
Hedge, Russell E.; Johnson, Willard L. – 1988
The report describes the program philosophy and accomplishments over the past decade of the Infant and Early Childhood Intervention Program (IECIP) of the Kansas University Affiliated Program (KUAP) at Parsons, Kansas, which has focused solely on delivering information and training to parents of developmentally delayed children. Topics discussed…
Descriptors: Community Services, Cost Effectiveness, Delivery Systems, Developmental Disabilities
Family Resource Coalition Report, 1988
This special issue of a periodical focuses on building support and resources for families of children with special needs. It contains 13 articles in addition to descriptions of 10 programs serving special needs families at the local level, a list of 15 resource organizations and 10 publications/audiovisual aids, and a message from the coalition's…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Early Intervention, Family Involvement
Download full textNelson, Lynda A. – 1986
Over the 3 years of funding, 1983-1986, the Volunteers in Partnership with Parents Project (VIPP), a Handicapped Children's Early Education Program (HCEEP) Model Demonstration Program funded by the U.S. Department of Education, designed and implemented a program model for parents in rural North Carolina who had significantly handicapped preschool…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Early Intervention, Family Programs
Peer reviewedNelson, Lynda A.; Rogers, Deborah C. – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 1987
The Volunteers in Partnership with Parents (VIPP) program is designed to alleviate the pressing problems of rural families as well as provide early intervention to the children. The use of volunteers as partners in working with parents is the crux of the program. (JHZ)
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Helping Relationship, Individualized Education Programs, Parent Participation
Hedge, Russell; Johnson, Willard – 1986
Providing cost-effective services in 15 counties of Southeast Kansas, the Infant and Early Childhood Intervention Program (IECIP) teaches parents to provide daily one-to-one therapy in gross and fine perceptual motor development, speech and language development, social adjustment, and behavior management for developmentally delayed children from…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Developmental Disabilities, Disadvantaged, Educational Philosophy
