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Scheiner, Louis – 1978
The School District of Philadelphia, through its Prescriptive Educational Approach to Children with Handicaps (PEACH) Project, funded under E.S.E.A. Title VI-B, provided diagnostic, referral, and prescriptive educational services for preschool children (between 3 and 4.7 years). Priority was given to those children most severely handicapped and…
Descriptors: Academically Handicapped, Community Information Services, Data Processing, Educational Diagnosis
Fein, Greta G. – 1977
This paper describes the results of a longitudinal study which compared the effects of three types of home-based, parent-oriented, infant education curricula. One curriculum stressed language, another stressed play, and a third stressed social development. Mothers and children from 108 middle and working class families received home visits…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Evaluation, Demography, Experimental Curriculum
Bell, T. H. – 1975
The importance of using existing local elementary school facilities to benefit preschool children and their neighborhoods forms the basis for suggestions offered in this address. Comprehensive child and community development centers can be created in the schools that would benefit the community by increasing general concern for a higher quality…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Child Development Centers, Community Centers, Community Planning
Development Associates, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1975
This report describes and evaluates the Child and Family Resource Program (CFRP) in St. Petersburg, Florida, one of 11 demonstration sites of this Head Start-affiliated program. The cooperation of community service agencies and the combination of the roles of homebased teacher and social worker into the role of home visitor were major strengths of…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Coordination, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
Bertram, Charles L. – 1975
The general purpose of this study was to gain information from the 1970 U.S. Census on the social and educational characteristics of rural Appalachian families with preschool children so that effective programs could be planned to meet their educational needs. More specifically, the data were needed to determine if Appalachia Educational…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Census Figures, Demography, Early Childhood Education
Appalachia Educational Lab., Charleston, WV. – 1970
Reported are findings from the first year's field test of the home-oriented Appalachia Educational Laboratory (AEL) Early Childhood Education Program for 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds. The program consists of a 30-minute daily television lesson, a weekly home visit by a paraprofessional, and group instruction once a week in a mobile classroom. The…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cost Effectiveness, Early Childhood Education, Educational Objectives
Batson, Nancy F.; Quick, Jennifer; Bennett, Theresa – 1998
This final report discusses the activities of the Mississippi Early Education Program for Children with Multiple Disabilities, a program designed to train Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Part H service coordinators and service providers to use family centered strategies. Two levels of training activities were implemented. The first…
Descriptors: Children, Early Intervention, Family Involvement, Family Programs
Golden, Diane – 1998
This monograph provides an overview of critical policy and practice issues facing educators in the area of assistive technology (AT) for students with disabilities and discusses emerging policy directives and best practices for service delivery in a way that is supportive of quality AT programs in schools. Following an introduction, Section 2…
Descriptors: Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Definitions, Delivery Systems, Disabilities
Cohen, Cafi – 2000
This booklet is the fifth in a series designed to assist parents who are home-schooling their adolescent children and deals with high school requirements and college admissions. The articles in this booklet are: (1) "'How Do We Know When We're Done?'," concerning criteria for high school graduation, college recommendations, and evaluating…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Admissions Counseling, Adolescents, College Admission
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Rodger, Sylvia; Braithwaite, Michelle; Keen, Deb – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 2004
This paper describes a process of assisting parents of young children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to identify and prioritise their goals for their children's early intervention. A modified version of the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (M-COPM) was used to facilitate this process. Twenty-two child-parent dyads involved in a…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Autism, Young Children, Interpersonal Relationship
Barringer, Don; Johnson, Dorothy – 1996
This final report describes activities and accomplishments of an outreach project of Project SKI-HI, a family-centered, home intervention model designed to provide training to early intervention professionals serving infants, toddlers, and preschoolers with hearing impairments. In the project, an early intervention professional or a parent advisor…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Early Intervention, Family Programs, Hearing Impairments
Trans-Management Systems, Inc. – 1993
A revision of the 1989 publication, this directory was compiled in order to help parents and professionals involved with Head Start home-based programming in meeting the needs of young children and families. The directory lists a broad range of guides and resources on topics related to Head Start home-based programs. Each listing provides the…
Descriptors: Child Health, Disabilities, Family Involvement, Health Promotion
Bennett, Tess; And Others – 1986
Effects of family-oriented early intervention on the home environment were explored in a 6-month study of 23 handicapped children (ages birth to 5) and their families, who participated as members of an experimental or control group. The Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) Inventory was administered to evaluate differences in…
Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Developmental Disabilities, Diagnostic Teaching, Family Counseling
East Hartford Board of Education, CT. – 1985
The demand for the services of homemaker-home health aides has increased tremendously. In one year, for example, the Visiting Nurse and Home Care Association of East Hartford, Connecticut, had a nearly 155 percent increase in the demand for homemaker-home health aide service. The East Hartford Public Schools developed a vocational program that…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education, Community Health Services, Cooperative Programs
National Council for Homemaker-Home Health Aide Services, New York, NY. – 1980
The purpose of this model curriculum and teaching guide is to assist agencies, educational institutions, and other groups to plan, organize, and provide the initial training needed by homemaker-home health aides. Persons aged 35-60 are considered most desirable as trainees, but indication of maturity is more appropriate as a criterion. Based on…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Adults, Allied Health Occupations Education, Child Rearing
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