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Dodge, Diane Trister; Bickart, Toni S. – 1998
Noting that a high-quality preschool program is one that promotes learning through rich play experiences, this book gives parents information needed to select the right preschool for their children. Chapter 1, "Thinking about Preschool," discusses questions parents ask, practical considerations, beginning the search, and the screening phone call.…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Early Experience, Educational Quality, Evaluation Criteria
Download full textKupper, Lisa, Ed. – 1992
This parent's guide (presented in both English and Spanish) is intended to help families access services for young children with special needs. It is presented in the form of questions and answers arranged in three parts. Part I presents 12 questions and answers about early intervention services for infants and toddlers (ages birth through 2…
Descriptors: Adopted Children, American Indians, Delivery Systems, Disabilities
Jackson, Nancy Ewald; Roller, Cathy M. – 1993
This report provides research-based answers to questions about literacy development from infancy to age 6, with emphasis on the development of these skills in precocious readers. The question-answer format considers the importance of reading with young children, other activities to help young children learn to read, normal development of reading…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Reading, Elementary School Students, Gifted
Gallagher, James J. – 1993
The Carolina Policy Studies Program (CPSP) was established in October 1987 to track the implementation of Public Law 99-457, Part H (the law is now known as IDEA--Individuals with Disabilities Education Act), which aids states in providing comprehensive services to infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families. Since its establishment,…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Compliance (Legal), Data Analysis, Data Collection
Bruder, Mary Beth; Brand, Marie – 1993
This final report describes objectives, activities, and outcomes of a project to provide training to infant specialists employed within a total of 16 infant intervention programs in New York State. The project focused on the acquisition of skills necessary to provide services under Public Law 99-457. Training content and procedures were derived…
Descriptors: Competency Based Teacher Education, Compliance (Legal), Demonstration Programs, Disabilities
Guarneri, Gina, Ed.; And Others – 1988
This curriculum is for an intensive 5-day institute in team assessment of young children with disabilities. Each of the eight chapters includes text, training activities, and an annotated bibliography. Sample forms and evaluation guides are appended to relevant chapters. The introductory chapter presents an assessment philosophy and notes…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Cultural Differences, Disabilities, Evaluation Methods
Gallagher, James J.; And Others – 1988
In Part H of Public Law 99-457, the Federal Government agrees to provide modest financial resources to aid the states in planning and developing comprehensive, multidisciplinary, coordinated services for young children with handicaps and their families, and presents mandates for reforms in the service delivery system. This paper identifies the…
Descriptors: Coordination, Data Collection, Decision Making, Definitions
Liaison Bulletin, 1986
Public Law 99-457, the Education of the Handicapped Amendments of 1986, reauthorizes the discretionary programs of the Education of the Handicapped Act, provides incentives to states to serve an estimated additional 70,000 handicapped 3- to 6-year-olds and creates a new discretionary program to address the special needs of handicapped infants and…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Deaf Blind, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Debban, Barbara, Comp.; And Others – 1987
This handbook is designed to explain the structure and the existing regulations and procedures of the programs affiliated with the Parent Education Program at Columbia Basin College (CBC), Washington. Purpose of the program is to give parents the opportunity to increase their understanding of children. Section I addresses the importance of parent…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Child Development, Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs
Monighan, Patricia – 1985
Theoretical correspondences between the language and play development of young children and developmental aspects of play and speech are discussed prior to a report of a study comparing categories of cognitive complexity nested within social categories of solitary play and self speech. Participants were 36 preschool boys and girls approximately…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Child Language, Childrens Games
Young, Kathryn T.; Zigler, Edward – 1985
This paper examines existing federal and state standards for the group care of infants and toddlers and offers suggestions for realistic and constructive child care policy for children and families in the 1980's. Particularly emphasized are the effects of day care environments on the psychological development of infants and toddlers and the…
Descriptors: Certification, Child Caregivers, Day Care Centers, Early Childhood Education
Fish, Debra, Ed. – 1984
Intended for use by professionals and trained para-professionals in the training of family day care providers, in-home caregivers, and, to some extent, foster parents, this handbook contains information and materials necessary to establish a training plan and offers nine training units plus a supplemental unit about toys. Discussed first are…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Child Caregivers, Child Development, Classroom Techniques
Chen, Deborah; McLean, Mary; Corso, Rob; Bruns, Deborah – 2001
In this report, shifts underway in early intervention (EI) from a professional-centered to a more family-centered model of service delivery are documented. The demographic changes in the past decade of young children and families receiving EI services (e.g., teen parents, children with more complex developmental and medical needs), in addition to…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Influences, Delivery Systems
McCollum, Jeanette A.; Yates, Tweety J. – 2001
This report provides a theoretical framework for understanding different approaches to interaction intervention and uses this framework as background for considering how various cultural factors might influence families' (and providers') views of these approaches. Most research in interaction intervention has been conducted without explicit…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Child Development, Cultural Awareness
Kroenke, Lillian DeVault, Ed. – Infants and Toddlers, 2002
This document is comprised of the 2001-2002 issues of a quarterly journal for teachers and parents of children in Montessori infant and toddler programs. The spring 2001 issue presents articles on the history of infant and toddler programs in Italy and how to fulfill infant needs in Montessori child care, and on learning activities in the kitchen…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Childhood Needs, Educational Environment, Foreign Countries
