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Enrollment in Pre-K and Children's Social-Emotional and Executive Functioning Skills: To What Extent Are Associations Sustained across Time?
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Lillie Moffett; Amanda Weissman; Meghan McCormick; Christina Weiland; JoAnn Hsueh; Catherine Snow; Jason Sachs – Grantee Submission, 2023
Pre-kindergarten (Pre-K) improves the school readiness of all children, but less is known about whether associations between enrollment in Pre-K and different indicators of social-emotional and executive functioning (EF) skills are sustained as children move into and across elementary school. The current study examines associations between…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Preschool Education, Social Emotional Learning, Executive Function
Early Care and Prekindergarten Care as Influences on School Readiness
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Fram, Maryah Stella; Kim, Jinseok; Sinha, Sunny – Journal of Family Issues, 2012
Child care is increasingly viewed as an opportunity to enhance children's development and school readiness, with prekindergarten programs and early intervention programs targeting children at different moments of development. Results of existing research are mixed, and although many children experience different child care arrangements at…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Child Care, Preschool Education, Child Development
A Study of a Violence Prevention Program in Prekindergarten Classrooms
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Allen, Susan F. – Children & Schools, 2009
Prevention programs in schools are one response to youth, community, and family violence. Many of these programs target older children and adolescents. This quasi-experimental study evaluated the preschool curriculum of the Peacemakers program, which was developed by a consortium of social service agencies for implementation in schools. This…
Descriptors: Preschool Curriculum, Experimental Groups, Prevention, Holistic Approach
Examining the Generalization of Milieu Language Objectives in Situations Requiring Listener Preparatory Behaviors.
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Kaczmarek, Louise A.; And Others – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1996
Two three-year olds, one verbal and one nonverbal, with moderate to severe developmental delays were taught target communication objectives using milieu language teaching. The children generalized their target objectives spontaneously and in probe situations that also required them to display listener preparatory behaviors. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Delayed Speech, Developmental Delays, Generalization
Setting Generalization of Question-Asking by Children with Autism.
Koegel, Lynn Kern; Camarata, Stephen M.; Valdez-Menchaca, Marta; Koegel, Robert L. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1998
Incorporated motivational procedures to teach question-asking to three children (ages three and five). All children learned to use questions in relation to items they had previously been unable to label and demonstrated generalization of spontaneous question-asking to new items and to their home environments with their mothers, with concomitant…
Descriptors: Autism, Expressive Language, Generalization, Instructional Effectiveness
Facilitating Basic Vocabulary Acquisition with Milieu Teaching Procedures.
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Warren, Steven F. – Journal of Early Intervention, 1992
Five children (27 to 47 months old) with mild to borderline levels of mental retardation were given a milieu language intervention program of 3 or 4 small group training sessions weekly. Results indicated the training had a clear facilitative effect on the acquisition and generalized use of common nouns and verbs by four of the subjects.…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Educational Environment, Generalization, Incidental Learning