A survey of day care needs of M.I.T. employees, its resulting information, and a description of the pilot program of day care services undertaken by M.I.T. are included in this report. A survey was administered to all 4,650 Institute employees in April, 1970, and enjoyed a 35% rate of response. The compiled data supports the conclusion that a…

This manual, to be used in child development centers, presents guidelines for working with families of handicapped children. Reasons for initiating a family program are given to include fostering coordination of the child's training and keeping the program relevant to needs of families within the community. First contacts with parents are said to…

Parents and policymakers are turning to preschools to better advance the school readiness and broader development of young children. Much remains unknown, including how preschool programs of varying quality affect diverse groups of children. This is particularly important as several California counties embark on ambitious and costly efforts to…

Traces the development of the De Anza Community College (California) Reentry Educational Program, a program for adult women of limited educational background. Discusses the following aspects of the program: the Child Development Center, resource and referral services, specialized counseling, instruction, and evaluation. (AYC)

The Child Development Centre in Whitehorse, Yukon, delivers comprehensive early intervention services to young children who experience a developmental delay or are considered at risk. Center services include community-based early intervention, a reverse-integrated preschool program, outreach services for rural and First Nations families, and a…

Over the past several years, teachers at the West Virginia University Child Development Laboratory have used the language experience approach to develop the literacy skills of young children. To increase child involvement, a scrapbook project for 4-year-olds was conducted each Wednesday for 1 academic year. Each child received a scrapbook and…

Playschool at White Plains High School in Westchester County, New York, is a unique learning center that was launched by the high school's home economics teacher, Margaret Jordan, 12 years ago as a nursery school laboratory designed for the study of child development by high school students. (EA)

This report summarizes the results of the fourth full year of a projected longitudinal study of the Child Development Centers Program (CDC). CDC is operated by the Seattle, Washington public schools to provide social services primarily to students four to eight years old. This volume describes the population served, services provided, and student…

Intended for administrators interested in establishing a child development program for rural/migrant or urban disadvantaged children, ages 0-5, or for administrators of existing programs interested in implementing specific aspects of this program, this guidebook contains information and suggestions in the following areas: program funding,…

Research and development guidelines and projections for future child development centers are discussed. The first section describes the Child Development Center (CDC) concept and proposes a nationwide program. Other topics deal with child health and development, education for change, the community and the young child, public approaches and…

A renewed interest in early childhood programs has sparked a debate at local, state, and national levels over the content of such programs, the sponsorship, and the question of who should pay. A variety of locally run early childhood services are described. (TE)

This progress report highlights findings from the first year of a 3-year evaluation of the Matching Funds for Retention program, a child-care retention incentive (CRI) program. It includes initial rates of professional development, training, and retention of 677 program participants in four California counties (Napa, San Luis Obispo, Siskiyou, and…

This paper, drawing on work with three integrated early years centres, designated as centres of excellence in the north of England, addresses issues arising from the evaluation of a government initiative in funding models of integrated services and good educare practice. Issues concerned with evaluation work and the difficulties in investigating…

This document is the self-study portion of the Standards and Procedures for Voluntary Accreditation of Early Childhood Education Programs in Missouri. The self-study, an opportunity for programs to demonstrate their ability to meet certain standards, consists of quality indicators under 6 major headings: (1) provide a healthy and safe environment…

An accreditation process that measures and assesses elements of high quality child care in New Zealand is reported. The process is based on the Early Childhood Program Accreditation procedure established by the National Association for the Education of Young Children, as modified for Australian use by personnel at the Queensland University of…