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Mullis, Lorna – Young Exceptional Children, 2002
A mother of a son with Down syndrome discusses how her family and child care providers work with him in natural environments to support his learning in daily activities. She urges other parents to keep trying until they find the right match that works for their family. (CR)
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Daily Living Skills, Down Syndrome, Early Childhood Education
Choutka, Claire Maher – Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps, 1999
This commentary reviews previous articles that discuss major educational approaches for young children with autism from the perspective of a parent with a child with autism. Considerations for parents in selecting an intervention and the need for more intervention information and resources for parents are addressed. (CR)
Descriptors: Autism, Delivery Systems, Early Childhood Education, Early Intervention
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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
Medina County School District., OH. – 1995
First grade is a special place where children learn many things, and learning is increased when home and school work together in a friendly partnership. This guide provides parents and children weekly home activities through the year to enhance children's eagerness to learn. Suggested activities--which were carefully chosen by representative…
Descriptors: Awards, Childhood Attitudes, Elementary School Students, Family Environment
Rowan, Lori; And Others – 1997
This report documents the activities and outcomes of the 5-year model demonstration project AHEAD (At Home and At Day Care), a Utah program that is designed to deliver services to infants, toddlers, and young children (ages birth-3) with noncategorical disabilities. The program delivers services to the children and their caregivers in their…
Descriptors: Day Care, Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Early Intervention
Texas Interagency Council on Early Childhood Intervention, Austin. – 1996
The Texas Interagency Council on Early Childhood Intervention (ECI) serves 23,000 children a year and funds 71 comprehensive programs and 12 Milestones programs throughout Texas. Comprehensive programs offer a variety of services to help families who have babies and toddlers with disabilities or delays, providing services in the home or integrated…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Definitions, Developmental Delays, Disabilities
Stroul, Beth A. – 1988
This document is part of a series of monographs on community-based services for children and adolescents who are severely emotionally disturbed. The series is the product of a national study of community-based service approaches, which identified over 200 programs serving emotionally disturbed children and included visits to several programs…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Community Programs, Community Services
Barringer, Donald; Johnson, Dorothy – 1993
This monograph reports achievements of the SKI*HI project, a 3-year outreach project to improve access and development of services to presently unserved or underserved infants and young children with hearing impairments as well as to provide leadership and technical assistance to agencies implementing the SKI*HI model. The project provided direct…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Early Identification, Early Intervention, Hearing Aids
Utah State Univ., Logan. Dept. of Communicative Disorders. – 1993
This final report describes activities of Project INSITE, a 3-year home intervention program delivering services to infants, toddlers, and preschoolers with deaf blindness or other multidisability sensory impairments. The family centered model features the use of early intervention professionals known as parent advisors who visit homes weekly to…
Descriptors: Deaf Blind, Delivery Systems, Early Intervention, Hearing Aids
Gordon, William M.; And Others – 1991
A discussion of compulsory attendance legislation and issues relevant to home schooling are presented in this report. The first section offers a literature review and discussion of the socialization and academic achievement arguments. Section 2 provides a chronologically ordered summary of cases that address such issues as qualifications of…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Compulsory Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Home Programs
Fleisher, Dorothy; Kaplan, Barbara H. – 1982
Project LINC (Living Independently through Neighborhood Cooperation) was a three year demonstration project designed to enable older people to remain in independent living by strengthening their neighborhood-based informal support systems. To determine if LINC met its goals and reached the elderly population it was designed for, a pre- and…
Descriptors: Gerontology, Helping Relationship, High Risk Persons, Home Programs
Miller, Leonard S. – 1987
Interest in the development of community-based long-term care (CBLTC) programs as a substitute for institutional-based care has been steadily growing. The estimated benefits from the Multipurpose Senior Services Program (MSSP), California's intensive CBLTC system, were measured by the expected increase in community residency days for clients for a…
Descriptors: Community Services, Cost Effectiveness, Cost Estimates, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled)
Dennis-Small, Lucretia; Washburn, Kerry – 1986
This two-year project demonstrated a model for preventing the removal of children from their homes, with the aim of reducing both the number of children entering foster care and the number of families recycled through the child protective services system. The project was a joint effort by the Texas Department of Human Services (DHS) Region 11…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Comparative Analysis, Costs
Ford, Phyllis – 1983
Numerous physical, mental, and behavioral activities that parents and their 3- to 5-year-old children can enjoy together are suggested in this activity guidebook. The guide suggests ways parents can give their children a good start at developing the abilities and ideas that are fundamental to all future learning at home before the children begin…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Cognitive Development, Educational Objectives, Experiential Learning
Peters, Donald L.; And Others – 1987
This study analyzed the critical features of three delivery modes for Head Start services in order to: (1) compare the effects of different delivery modes on the immediate outcomes for children and parents; and (2) explore the pattern of effects both within and across modes to ascertain how the process works. The first mode represented the most…
Descriptors: Family School Relationship, Home Instruction, Home Programs, Home Visits
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