The Dallas Independent School District (DISD) provides for the delivery of services to handicapped students from birth to six years of age through the Project KIDS (Kindling Individual Development Systems) program. Journal availability: see EC 133 846. (Author)

The article describes the Chapel Hill Gifted Handicapped Project (housed at the University of North Carolina) designed to develop a model and field tested curricula for gifted and handicapped preschoolers. (SBH)

The Gifted Department of the Rockford Illinois Public Schools has provided a preschool summer program for identified gifted children and their parents attending cojoint sessions with preschoolers in a classroom environment directed by a teacher and parents in a discussion/work group with a psychologist. (Author/SBH)

A participatory science workshop--open house was designed for parents and preschool children to explore together. Organizing and setting up are detailed. (HS)

Describes the new "basic" preschool program which focuses on enhancing, rather than accelerating, all children's development and enhancing health care. Centered upon Vygotsky's theory of development, such preschool programs focus on play as the leading activity of preschool children, organize the child's material environment, and thereby…

Describes development of the Early Head Start program for low-income pregnant women and families with children from birth to age 3. Discusses the program's goals and the creation of Early Head Start when Head Start was reauthorized in 1994. Describes the Early Head Start model programs, addressing the confusion about the relationship between Head…

In February 2007, First 5 LA contracted with Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. (MPR) and its subcontractors, Juarez and Associates, American Institutes for Research (AIR), and Berkeley Evaluation and Assessment Research (BEAR) Center, to conduct the First 5 LA/LAUP Universal Preschool Child Outcomes Study (UPCOS). The authors conducted the study…

This bibliography of 71 items lists publications addressing transition in early childhood special education programs. Publications are listed alphabetically by author and are dated from 1986 to 1991. Publications include special reports, journal articles, research reports, and program descriptions. (DB)

Teachers who have been trained to work with normal young children (early childhood certification) or with older disabled children (special education certification) are unprepared to assume the multiple responsibilities of the teacher of preschool disabled children. Prior to the 1979-1980 academic year, few (if any) formal on-going inservice (or…

The Tribal American Consulting Corporation (TACC) has been working toward development of both a special educational program for preschool Native American children in Los Angeles and a suitable evaluation program for these urban Indian children. (JC)

This issue, one of a series devoted to early childhood education in the USSR, contains statistical data on preschool education, discussions on personality development, mental training, work attitudes, and program guidelines focused on the organization of life and education of 3-7 year-old children. (Author/KM)

The report summarizes the status of 36 Oregon projects for preschool, elementary, and secondary handicapped children which were funded for the 1975-76 academic year under Title VI-B funds. Evaluations on each project usually provide the following information: title of project, location of project, population served, funding allocated, project…

The report summarizes the status of 49 Oregon projects funded during the 1976-77 academic year under Title VI-B funds for preschool, elementary, and secondary handicapped children. Evaluations on each project usually provide the following information: title of project, location of project, population served, funding allocated, project beginning…