The document contains the final performance report of an outreach project designed to stimulate and develop increased specialized services for children, 0 to 4 years old, who have handicaps and who reside in the rural counties of Missouri and to demonstrate the efficacy of utilizing a state university extension service as a model of outreach…

Presented are the rationale and description of the curriculum objectives developed for the Adaptive Beginning-School Learning Environment Program (ABLE). Included are brief discussions of: an analysis of the historical backgrounds and theoretical assumptions and approaches of extant preschool programs; the rationale for designing the ABLE program…

Records and observations from a summer Head Start program, conducted in Los Angeles by Delta Sigma Theta, are delineated in this book. It relates firsthand experiences of the participating personnel as they developed and implemented a Head Start program for some 300 children. The book is divided into three sections. Section I,…

The Ypsilanti Curriculum Demonstration Project's language training curriculum for three- and four-year old disadvantaged children, using the Bereiter Engelmann program, is provided. The purpose of the curriculum is to effect a behavior change in the child to enable him to achieve in the traditional education environment. Emphasis is given to the…

This is the first of four volumes of a study designed to seek and describe formal child care arrangements of good quality and to investigate the cost of reproducing these centers and home care arrangements. The twenty centers and systems described include centers all around the country: on Indian reservations, in the inner city, in hospitals,…

Presented is the final report of a 3-year project at Ohio State University to design, develop, and implement a competency based program to prepare teachers of very young handicapped children. Considered in the first section are final year project activities in the following areas: evaluation and revision of a list of teacher competencies,…

The Retrieval and Acceleration of Promising Young Handicapped and Talented program, part of the Joint Early Education Program for the Handicapped, identifies and educates preschool children who are both handicapped and gifted or talented. (PHR)

The article discusses the comprehensive services offered emotionally disturbed preschool children by a voluntary social agency (the Childrens Center in Salt Lake City, Utah), focusing on activity group therapy, the major therapeutic tool used there. (Author/DLS)

This report of visits to various preschools (classified as "L'Ecole Maternelle") in France provides information about the educational environment, teaching techniques, and age and socioeconomic background of children in each "ecole maternelle' visited. (CM)

Described is Project Memphis, a curriculum model which contains 260 structured lesson plans which parents, paraprofessionals, and volunteers can use with developmentally delayed preschoolers. (CL)

Beginning in 1975, the Head Start Program expanded its services to include special education for preschool children who are handicapped (each state must allocate 10 percent of its enrollment opportunities to handicapped children). Head Start has also developed a needs assessment kit to aid personnel in recognizing and dealing with handicapping…

Describes one preschool teacher's art classes and her approach to creativity and esthetic growth in children 4 to 6 years old. (SB)

This report summarizes how preschool children are served by or through local and state education agencies and the types of programs offered. The report presents the number of children served in: programs for preschool-aged children with disabilities; Head Start grantee and delegate agencies operating under the auspices of the local school board;…