A NEW NURSERY SCHOOL PROGRAM, COMBINING A RESPONSIVE ENVIRONMENT AND AN ENRICHED CLASSROOM SUBPROGRAM, WAS IMPLEMENTED IN AN EFFORT TO IMPROVE PARTICULAR SKILLS, ABILITIES, AND PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS OF DISADVANTAGED SPANISH-AMERICAN, PRESCHOOL CHILDREN. FIRST-YEAR EFFORTS WERE REPORTED OF AN EXTENDED LONGITUDINAL STUDY, PROJECTED FOR ABOUT…

The purpose of the study was to establish developmental norms for maternal-rated problem behaviors within a disadvantaged group of preschool children. The data are discussed in terms of their utility in assisting the school psychologist to select appropriate intervention strategies for the preschool child. (Author)

Chronically undernourished children of low socioeconomic status participated in a treatment program combining nutritional, health care, and educational features. By school age, the gap in cognitive ability between the treated children and a group of privileged children had narrowed. The effect was greater for the youngest preschoolers entering the…

Review of the Head Start program by the former director of the Office of Child Development. Discussion of what compensatory programs can and should achieve. (ST)

Describes the West Riding Educational Priority Area Project, set up in December 1968, the purpose of which was to assess the social, educational and economic factors which might affect the children's academic performance, and to try to find ways of helping them develop their potential. (Author/JM)

A subsidiary purpose of this study was to initially explore the value of visual representations of family life as tools to improve the family perceptions of preschool disadvantaged children. (Authors)

Reviewed is the preliminary edition of the Tests of Basic Experiences, a battery of tests for preschool and kindergarten children designed to indicate how well a child's experiences have prepared him for scholastic activities. (GW)

A high frequency of unmet medical needs and a breakdown in family structure among low-income preschool children were discovered among ten youngsters enrolled in a demonstration day care project. This paper reports on how a child care center attempted to meet the developmental needs of such children. (Editor)

Research indicates that socioeconomic deprivation tends to retard psychological development in early childhood by approximately one-and-one-half-years. (Author)

Findings, confirming the results of an earlier study using a less deprived population, indicated that young black children do not benefit from having the Binet administered in Negro Dialect. (Author)

Results show that peer tutoring (versus adult tutoring) and tokens for reading (versus tokens for attendance) did substantially and significantly improve the rate at which the children learned to read. (Authors)

Highlights four years of experience at a day care center serving 80 children, between three and six years of age, on Manhattan's West Side. Center uses small groups as a modality for improving learning. (Authors/JM)

A Parent Assistance Plan (PAP) was designed to teach parents to work on their children's language at home. Of four matched groups of nursery children, one received PAP, one PAP plus Distar language at school, one Distar only, and one no treatment. PAP groups showed significantly greater language development. (Author/SJL)

The Vision In Preschoolers (VIP) Study, is a multi-phased, multi-center study designed to identify screening tests that best detect vision problems in preschool children. The VIP Study uses mobile medical units that are specially equipped to conduct vision screenings and eye examinations. Known as Vision Vans, these mobile units are staffed by lay…