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Willis, Erline – 1970
The Family Day Care Career Program plan of New York City provides day care for approximately 3500 children of public assistance or low income career mothers (working, in school, or in training) in the homes of teacher mothers (day care mothers). The day care homes are administered by 21 sub-centers, which provide support for teacher mothers…
Descriptors: Career Opportunities, Counseling Services, Day Care, Employed Women
Levenstein, Phyllis; Sunley, Robert M. – 1968
Progress during the first two years (1967-1968 and 1968-1969) of a three-year home-based, mother-child intervention program called the Verbal Interaction Project is described. The project was planned for the cognitive enrichment of preschoolers 2 to 4 years old, from lower income families. The program utilized specially trained home visitors,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Demography, Disadvantaged Youth, Games
Coelen, Craig; And Others – 1974
This volume, part of the interim report on the National Home Start Evaluation, includes cost of the 16 Home Start projects and outcome data from the six summative sites. Findings and recommendations are presented on the intra-project cost-effectiveness of Home Start and the cost-effectiveness of Home Start as a Head Start option. Home Start, a…
Descriptors: Budgets, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Data Analysis
Drezek, Wendy – 1976
The Infant-Parent Training Program is a model program providing day care, therapy-nursery, and home programs for handicapped children from 0 to 3 years old. Upon intake into the program, both parents and children attend four 1-hour diagnostic sessions during which children are assessed in the areas of cognitive functioning, language functioning,…
Descriptors: Day Care, Demonstration Programs, Diagnostic Teaching, Exceptional Child Education
Oregon State Dept. of Education, Salem. – 1976
Standard guidelines are presented by the Oregon Department of Education for a prekindergarten public school program for 4-year-olds. The program emphasizes helping teachers work with parents at home and at school to form an effective team in building a child's self-concept, self-confidence and communicative skills. Each curriculum area is…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Communication Skills, Early Experience, Family Involvement
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Perkins, Cybil; Walter, Marilyn – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 1987
Describes a program which addresses the needs of underserved handicapped children who live in isolated rural areas of Nevada. Covers the program's computer-assisted, home-based curricula and video-assisted, home-based assessment and instruction as well as evaluation methodology and results of preliminary child-progress data. (JHZ)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Distance Education, Home Programs, Outreach Programs
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Meighan, Roland – Educational Review, 1981
Citing the success of several home programs using parents as teachers and noting that new information technologies are providing increasing educational opportunities outside the school, the author argues that teachers should be prepared for cooperative work with parents. (Part of a theme issue on the future of teacher education in England.) (SJL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Futures (of Society), Home Programs, Information Systems
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Rabin, Claire; And Others – Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1982
Describes a project designed to reach low-income, multiproblem families, utilizing couples therapy in the home. Reviews major characteristics of multiproblem families. Emphasized therapeutic techniques based on modeling, role playing, and demonstration. Designed tasks which increased the individual and couple functioning of spouses. Reinforced…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Family Characteristics, Family Counseling, Family Problems
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Broughton, Sam F.; And Others – School Psychology Review, 1981
Selected literature on the use of daily/weekly report cards with parent-managed contingencies to modify school learning and behavior problems is reviewed. The development, implementation, evaluation, and fading of such programs are discussed and were found to be effective in modifying numerous school-related problem behaviors. (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Contingency Management, Elementary Secondary Education
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Papsidero, Joseph A.; And Others – Gerontologist, 1980
Describes an intensive instructional program designed and implemented to prepare health assistants to serve chronically ill older persons in the home. Under professional supervision, the health assistants extend health care to the chronically ill. All assistants continued in a health related role after the project. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Allied Health Personnel, Community Colleges, Educational Gerontology
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Siegert, Frederick E.; Yates, Brian T. – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1980
Parents were equally effective in modifying their childrens' negative behaviors regardless of method: individual in-home; individual in-office; or group in-office. Although operations costs favored group delivery, the more comprehensive opportunity and client costs favored individual in-home delivery. (CP)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Children
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Bekman, Sevda – Early Child Development and Care, 1990
In this investigation of the effects of Turkey's early childhood education system on children's development, children in educational preschool, custodial preschool, and home care were studied. Mothers of half the children were trained for two years. Children in the educational preschool and children with trained mothers had the greatest degrees of…
Descriptors: Child Development, Day Care Centers, Early Intervention, Foreign Countries
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Cameron, Robert; White, Mollie – British Journal of Special Education, 1989
Applications of the Portage Home Teaching Model to home and school programs in Great Britain are described. Portage teaching technology, stressing long and short term teaching objectives and the service model linking home and school, have been applied and expanded to such areas as noneducational problems and children with profound handicaps. (DB)
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Elementary Education
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Hopper, Chris A.; Munoz, Kathy D.; Gruber, Mary B.; Nguyen, Kim P. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2005
This study examined the efficacy of a school-based exercise and nutrition program with a parent component. Third-grade children (N = 238) from six elementary schools participated in the study, with three schools randomly assigned to a program group and the other three schools to a control group. The program group received a health-related fitness…
Descriptors: Pretests Posttests, Eating Habits, Nutrition Instruction, Parent Participation
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Li, Hong – Social Work Research, 2006
This study identified specific access barriers to seven commonly used in-home and community-based services (CBS) and examined factors that were related to barriers to these services. The data used in this study were extracted from the 1999 National Long Term Care Survey and included 283 dyads of rural older adults and their caregivers. The CBS to…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Older Adults, Community Services, Caregivers
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