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Peer reviewedLiddell, Christine; McConville, Chris – Early Child Development and Care, 1994
The effectiveness of a home-based enrichment program was assessed using 30 matched pairs of experimental and control group 5-year-olds from poor black South African families. The enrichment provided experimental families with educational materials thought suitable for the promotion of school readiness. Although results indicated some positive…
Descriptors: Blacks, Early Childhood Education, Early Intervention, Foreign Countries
Direct linkParis, Ruth; Bronson, Marybeth – Zero to Three (J), 2006
This article describes how the Visiting Moms Program in Chelsea, Massachusetts, has taken the paraprofessional model one step further to respond to the needs of refugee and immigrant new mothers, by employing paraprofessional home visitors who are also immigrants or refugees themselves from countries in Central America, South America, and…
Descriptors: Mothers, Multilingualism, Public Health, Home Visits
