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Rogers, Sally J.; Hayden, Deborah; Hepburn, Susan; Charlifue-Smith, Renee; Hall, Terry; Hayes, Athena – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2006
This single subject design study examined two models of intervention: Denver Model (which merges behavioral, developmental, and relationship-oriented intervention), and PROMPT (a neuro-developmental approach for speech production disorders). Ten young, nonverbal children with autism were matched in pairs and randomized to treatment. They received…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Intervention, Autism, Speech Language Pathology
Young, Sadie; Hawkins, Tim – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2006
Background: The Child and Special Parenting Service provides flexible assessment, long-term domiciliary support and home-based teaching to intellectually disabled parents. It provides key coordination between the Learning Disability Service and the Children's Service with focussed parenting assessments, where issues of child care and protection…
Descriptors: User Satisfaction (Information), Mental Retardation, Child Rearing, Teaching Methods
Kane, Robert L.; Bershadsky, Boris; Bershadsky, Julie – Gerontologist, 2006
Purpose: Making good consumer decisions requires having good information. This study compared long-term-care recommendations among various types of health professionals. Design and Methods: We gave randomly varied scenarios to a convenience national sample of 211 professionals from varying disciplines and work locations. For each scenario, we…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Health Personnel, Nurses, Physicians
Administration for Children, Youth, and Families (DHHS), Washington, DC. Head Start Bureau. – 1995
This fact sheet provides statistical information about Project Head Start. Data are presented for the following categories: (1) budget--actual for fiscal year 1994 and the 1995 appropriation; (2) enrollment; (3) number of sites; (4) average cost per child; (5) number of staff and volunteers; and (6) enrollment and congressional appropriates from…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Enrollment, Federal Programs, Home Programs
Bloom, Barbara – 1991
This document is a report of the Early Childhood Intervention Programs (ECIPs) in Saskatchewan (Canada), covering 1984 to 1990. The report describes: the ECIP approach to early intervention; the children who are enrolled in the ECIPs; children's levels of development when entering and leaving the ECIP; changes in rates of development while in…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Programs, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education
Sides, Donna T. – 1994
A home writing program was developed and implemented using 22 second-grade target students to increase writing proficiency by soliciting parent involvement with home writing and to improve attitudes toward writing. Students attending a north central Florida school were supplied with a writing suitcase containing thematic story starter cards, a…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Home Programs, Parent Participation, Primary Education
Mirochnik, Denise A.; McIntire, Walter G. – 1991
The growth of home schooling over the last 20 years in Maine and across the nation, state responses, and current controversies are described in this paper. Following an introduction, the first part provides definitions and discusses legal concerns of home schooling. The next part provides a historical overview that examines public school…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Home Programs, Home Schooling
Freund, Maxine B. – 1990
The report documents activities of the 3-year (1986-1989) Assessment as Intervention Project at George Washington University (District of Columbia). Major activities of the project included: data collection with 25 families of newborn at-risk premature infants, including assessment-intervention sessions at 3, 6, 9, and 12 months of age; data…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Early Intervention, Evaluation Methods, Family Problems

Ettema, James S. – 1983
A study was conducted to determine who, within a target user group, used and benefitted from a videotex system. The subjects were large-scale farmers who agreed to have videotex terminals installed in their homes to receive a wide range of informational and commercial transaction services provided by a bank holding company. At the end of an…
Descriptors: Banking, Communications, Cost Effectiveness, Farmers

Stowitschek, Joseph J.; Hofmeister, Alan – Children Today, 1975
Discusses the current development of training packages for educating parents to help their children develop self-help, math, reading, and spelling skills. Two packages are described: (1) a multimedia package monitored by a professional in training workshops for parents of mentally retarded children; and (2) pencil and paper packages in which…
Descriptors: Child Development, Handicapped Children, Home Programs, Mental Retardation

Sulby, Arnold B.; Diodati, Anthony – Child Welfare, 1975
Discussed the following aspects of a well-functioning family day care program: (1) clustering of homes; (2) preservice and inservice workshops; (3) consultation; (4) family day care assistants; (5) stable method of payment; (6) alternative systems; and (7) agency attitudes toward day care mothers. (Author/SDH)
Descriptors: Agency Role, Child Caregivers, Day Care, Distance
Shoultz, Bonnie – 1989
Findings are presented from a site visit to a Raleigh, North Carolina, program that provides in-home support to children and adults with severe disabilities and their families. The program, the Wake County Community Alternatives Program for Persons with Mental Retardation/Developmental Disabilities, is administered by the North Carolina Department…
Descriptors: Community Services, Delivery Systems, Family Involvement, Family Programs
Illinois Public Health Association, Springfield. – 1988
Four topical bibliographies list materials held by the Illinois Birth to Three Clearinghouse which collects information of interest to parents, professionals, and policymakers on health, education, and development in infancy and early childhood. Bibliography number 18, "Materials on Home Care," contains 52 entries for books and journal…
Descriptors: Congenital Impairments, Disabilities, Family Programs, Genetics
Healey, Catherine B. – 1987
Research in the 1970s proved that the notion that elderly persons are being neglected by their families is a myth. This study evaluated the LINKS (Linking Intergenerational Needs, Knowledge and Services) project, a telephone support and counseling service which provides educational information, counseling, and information on existing resources and…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Counseling Services, Family Caregivers, Family Relationship
McGreevy, Patrick; And Others – 1984
Parents of 16 severely handicapped preschoolers were trained to use the Individualized Curriculum Sequencing (ICS) model--an approach to increase functioning skills. Training and consultation took place in the home. The ICS format incorporates features of skill clusters; concurrent task sequencing; training in functional settings; functional,…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Home Programs, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Education