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Direct linkPeng, Timothy R.; Navaie-Waliser, Maryam; Feldman, Penny H. – Gerontologist, 2003
Purpose: This study explored similarities and differences in social support, home health service utilization, and health outcomes across four racial-ethnic groups of elders. Design and Methods: 1999 Outcomes Assessment Information Set records for 7,374 home care recipients who were 75 years of age or older and who were discharged to self-care were…
Descriptors: Health Services, Ethnic Groups, Mental Health, Outcomes of Treatment
Download full textGeorgia State Dept. of Education, Atlanta. – 1995
This final report describes activities and accomplishments of the Georgia Deaf-Blind Project, a 3-year federally supported project encompassing 159 counties and providing technical assistance to 237 infants, children, and youth with deaf-blindness along with their families and their service providers. Project accomplishments included: (1) more…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Consultation Programs, Deaf Blind, Delivery Systems
Trans-Management Systems, Inc. – 1993
This guide provides ideas and procedures to help agencies in providing services to children and families through the home-based program option of Head Start. It is designed to assist program administrators who are beginning Head Start Home-Based programs for the first time as well as those seeking to strengthen existing programs. The chapters are:…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Child Development, Community Needs, Home Instruction
National Preschool Coordination Project, San Diego, CA. – 1991
This document describes programs that serve migrant preschool children and their families or that would be adaptable to the migrant population. Model programs illustrate trends in the direction of a "whole family" approach to early childhood education, respect for the importance of proficiency in the child's first language with regard to…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Early Intervention, English (Second Language), Family Programs
Kahn, Paul – 1997
This guide is for parents of children with disabilities who require the help of a machine or device for some life-sustaining activity such as breathing or eating. Following an introduction, chapter 1 is on preparing for the child's return home including parent training, community-based services, and obtaining funding for home care. Chapter 2, on…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Community Health Services, Family Environment, Family Relationship
PDF pending restorationPickett, Anna Lou; And Others – 1993
These instructional materials are designed to provide personnel developers and trainers with resources that can be used to improve the performance of paraeducators working in center-based and home visitor programs for young children with disabilities from birth to age 5. The modules cover: (1) roles of paraeducators working in inclusive…
Descriptors: Child Development, Communication Skills, Competency Based Education, Disabilities
ERIC Clearinghouse on Handicapped and Gifted Children, Reston, VA. – 1989
Cost-benefit studies of the Early Intervention Research Institute at Utah State University are summarized. No differences were found in educational effectiveness between half- and full-day programs, with the costs of half-day programs being about 75-85% of full-day programs. No significant differences were found between groups served by…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Early Intervention
Kohrman, Arthur F. – 1989
The popularity of home care for chronically ill or technology-dependent children has moved professionals into unfamiliar settings. Factors responsible for the relatively sudden surge of effort to place children with complex needs at home include costs, individualism and autonomy, changing views of medicine and its institutions, limits of medical…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Children, Chronic Illness, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled)
Bennett, Teresa C. – 1988
Though personnel preparation programs for interventionists working with infants, toddlers, and preschoolers focus on the same competencies, there is content which is unique to teaching the infant or toddler in the home and teaching a preschooler in the classroom. Content is suggested for training early interventionists to deliver services to…
Descriptors: Child Development, Disabilities, Educational Needs, Educational Therapy
PDF pending restorationNational Council on the Handicapped, Washington, DC. – 1986
Federal legislation and programs affecting personal assistance services for persons with disabilities are examined. Personal assistance services may be provided for activities of daily living, communication, cognitive tasks, or mobility, depending on the needs of the individual. The population in need of attendant services has increased with…
Descriptors: Attendants, Community Programs, Delivery Systems, Disabilities
Illinois State Dept. on Aging, Springfield. – 1987
This document describes Illinois' Community Care Program (CCP), a program which provides chore housekeeping, homemaker, and adult day care services to older persons who cannot perform some tasks basic of everyday life without assistance, in order to help them live independently. Case management, information and referral, and nursing home…
Descriptors: Adult Day Care, Cleaning, Community Services, Daily Living Skills
University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette. – 1982
A project was conducted by the University of Southwestern Louisiana in cooperation with local adult education programs to develop a delivery system for adult education through expanded outreach opportunities using computer-assisted instruction (CAI) and computer-managed instruction (CMI). During the 3-year project, a homebased CAI delivery system…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction
Macy, Daniel J. – 1976
Presented is a plan for evaluating Project KIDS (Kindling Individual Development Systems), a model program for developmentally delayed and physically handicapped infants, toddlers, preschool children, and their families. The KIDS program is described as providing services in a home-based training program, center-based infant stimulation classes,…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Developmental Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Evaluation Methods
Martinez, Jose A.; And Others – 1982
Project P.I.A.G.E.T. (Promoting Intellectual Adaptation Given Experiential Transforming) is a demonstration program to train five year old Hispanic children in the English language while maintaining their Spanish language skills. The instructional program is based on Piagetian principles which recognizes thought and language development as a…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Class Activities, Cognitive Development, Demonstration Programs
Bache, William; And Others – 1979
This Home Start followup study was designed to determine the long-term impact of Home Start on program participants in sixteen states within the USA. Home Start was a three-year demonstration program which provided Head Start-type comprehensive services to young children (3- to 5-year-olds) and their families in their homes. In Chapter 1…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Demonstration Programs, Family (Sociological Unit), Followup Studies
