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Haber, Julian S. – 1989
This paper describes a model for the involvement of primary health care personnel in the identification and treatment of developmental disabilities as a part of early childhood intervention programs. The integrated multidisciplinary model is divided into four stages. During the first stage an assignment of prenatal, perinatal, and postnatal risk…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Early Intervention, Handicap Identification, High Risk Persons
Cooney, Ramie Robeson; Holmes, Deborah L. – 1998
A study investigated how children's constitutional temperament (Easy, Difficult, or Intermediate), measured at 18 months of age, influences their adaptation to formal schooling. Information was collected from 35 children and their parents who were part of a longitudinal study of development. All participants were first-born children from…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Early Childhood Education, Intelligence Quotient
Ispa, Jean; And Others – 1987
This study explored effects of early out-of-home care on college students' social and emotional development, academic achievement, and choice of profession. The sample included 736 white and 163 black college undergraduates in Missouri who were asked whether they had received part- or full-time care from a baby-sitter, teacher, or family day care…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Blacks, College Students, Conflict Resolution
Winter, Mildred M. – 1988
Missouri's Parents as Teachers (PAT) program is a state-funded nontargeted early prevention service that is provided by all 543 school districts in the state. Professional educators involved in the program provide parents with the tools they need to effectively teach and nurture their young children. The PAT curriculum was designed to strengthen…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Government Role, Infants, Information Dissemination
Honig, Alice Sterling; Park, Kyung Ja – 1991
This paper describes a study of the socioemotional functioning of middle-class male and female preschoolers who had experienced varying degrees of nonparental care during the infant/toddler period. A review of the literature revealed that previous research findings from child care programs were inconclusive about potential differential effects on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aggression, Child Caregivers, Day Care
Blumenthal, Janet B. – 1985
Sixty-two socioculturally homogeneous, low-income black mother/child pairs were tested and observed when the infants were 2, 6, 12, 18, 24, 30, and 36 months of age to determine the relationship between variability in parenting attitudes, skills, and behaviors and consequent variability in children's intellectual development. As expected, the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Mothers, Child Rearing, Cognitive Development