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Girolametto, Luigi E. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1988
An 11-week training program to improve the social-conversational skills of preschool developmentally delayed children was evaluated with nine mother-child dyads. After training, experimental children initiated more topics, were more responsive to their mother's preceding turns, and used more verbal turns and a more diverse vocabulary than did…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Developmental Disabilities, Home Programs, Instructional Effectiveness

Ingstad, Benedicte – International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 1983
A social anthropologist and a child psychologist interviewed 171 Norwegian families with preschool children having nine different handicaps regarding consequences of the handicap for the family, respite care assistance, kindergartens, home help, community aid, and financial assistance. Findings indicated the major problem to be underutilization of…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Family Attitudes, Family Characteristics, Financial Support

Daatland, Svein Olav – Gerontologist, 1983
Examined the use of public services by 1,080 Norwegian older adults. Results showed more than one-third use public services for the aged (i.e., are institutionalized or receive home help or home nursing). The use of services is affected by both need and demand factors. The family's role is discussed. (JAC)
Descriptors: Community Services, Family Role, Foreign Countries, Geriatrics

Bradley, Bill – American Psychologist, 1983
A United States Senator advocates a national long-term home care program for the elderly and describes the proposed "Senior Citizens Independent Community Care Act." The Act would expand Medicare benefits to include individual assessment and treatment plans, homemaker/home health aid, adult day care services, interim care, and other…
Descriptors: Adult Day Care, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Health Services

Nevada State Dept. of Education, Carson City. – 2000
Two pamphlets (one in English and one in Spanish) describe the Nevada Even Start (NEST) program, a home-based system designed to help parents become full partners in the education of their children and to help children and parents reach their full potential as learners. The pamphlets note that the program intends to break the cycle of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Early Childhood Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Family Literacy
Cohen, Cafi – 2000
This booklet is the sixth in a series designed to assist parents who are home-schooling their adolescent children and focuses on ways to provide encouragement to home-schooled teenagers. The articles in this booklet are: (1) "First Year Surprises," presenting one home-schooling family's experiences during the first year related to the nature of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Coping, Home Programs, Home Schooling
Thomas, Jack Ward; And Others – National Wildlife, 1973
A step-by-step plan to create a wildlife habitat around one's home is depicted. Three stages, covering 30 to 40 years from initial planting, will provide food, water, cover, and reproductive areas for a large variety of plant and animal life. (BL)
Descriptors: Animal Husbandry, Conservation Education, Ecology, Home Programs

Clement, Paul W. – Journal of School Health, 1971
This article presents advantages gained in having parents act as behavior therapists with their problem children and explores several case studies making use of varied intervention strategies. Presented at Western Psychological Association, Los Angeles, April 1970. (CJ)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Consultation Programs, Home Programs

Craig, Helen B. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1983
The report presents results of a nationwide survey of schools for deaf persons regarding programing for parent-infant (PI) education. Among findings were that 94 schools (88 percent of respondents) reported programs for 1,901 hearing impaired children (Author/MC)
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, History, Home Programs, Infants
Wilson, Dottie C. – Death Education, 1982
Identifies the special characteristics needed by hospices caring for terminally ill children, based on a feasibility study for a pediatric hospital. Concludes that the needs of terminally ill children and their families are not being met currently and that the hospice is as appropriate for children as for adults. (Author)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Coping, Grief, Home Programs
Hlynka, Denis; Hurly, Paul – Videodisc/Videotext, 1981
The Manitoba Telephone System has established an experimental integrated home information system called Project Ida in a trial group of 100 homes. Discussed here are the origin, current operation, and future prospects of this system, which includes videotex, fire monitoring, telemetering, and educational television. (Author/JJD)
Descriptors: Cable Television, Educational Television, Experimental Programs, Foreign Countries

May, Marcia J.; And Others – Young Children, 1981
Results of a survey of the Handicapped Children's Early Education Program (HCEEP) indicated that projects within the program are diverse, offer services to meet individual children's and families' needs, and significantly involve families in the projects. More than one-third of these projects are administered by publicly supported educational…
Descriptors: Children, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education
Cocks, Errol – Australian Journal of Mental Retardation, 1979
The paper describes the transition of service provision for 240 intellectually handicapped Australian children and their families from a relatively traditional service delivery system to one emphasizing home and family involvement and placement of services closer to home. (Author/PHR)
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Exceptional Child Research, Family Involvement, Foreign Countries

Eggert, Gerald M.; And Others – Gerontologist, 1980
ACCESS outreach identified more persons in need of service who met the Title XIX eligibility requirements. Home care emphasis provided the opportunity for increasing proportions to remain at home or return to their home from the hospital. (Author)
Descriptors: Community Health Services, Cost Effectiveness, Delivery Systems, Disabilities

Madden, John; And Others – Child Development, 1976
Low-income families participated in several variations of a home-based intervention program which focused on modeling verbal interaction between mother and child around selected toys and books. (SB)
Descriptors: Home Programs, Intelligence Quotient, Intervention, Low Income