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Download full textBradham, Douglas D.; And Others – 1987
This document describes the TEACH (Train the Elderly And their Caregivers at Home) project, a demonstration project developed by Florida's District 12 Veterans Administration and the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services to reduce Medicaid nursing home expenditures by delaying or avoiding nursing home placement and to provide…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Coordination, Cost Effectiveness, Delivery Systems
Clark, Thomas C.; Watkins, Susan – 1985
The manual describes the SKI*HI Model, a comprehensive approach to identification and home intervention treatment of hearing impaired children and their families. The model features home programing in four basic areas: the home hearing aid program (nine lessons which facilitate the proper fit and acceptance of amplification by the child), home…
Descriptors: Auditory Training, Communication Skills, Curriculum, Handicap Identification
Heffron, Mary Claire; Jonnson, Jerry C. – 1981
Guidelines based on Project Head Start performance standards are offered for persons interested in starting and operating a home-based child development program providing individualized family services through home visits. Opening sections of the manual sensitize prospective service providers to problems and positive outcomes of home-based…
Descriptors: Family Programs, Guidelines, Home Programs, Home Visits
Scott, Ralph – 1972
This report describes Home Start, a sequential, highly individualized enrichment program for disadvantaged 2- to 5-year-olds. The program, based on the theoretical need hierarchy of Maslow, focuses on community and family dynamics. Home Start encouraged interdisciplinary collaboration, using the services of psychologists, social workers, home…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Enrichment, Family Environment
Administration for Children, Youth, and Families (DHHS), Washington, DC. Head Start Bureau. – 1994
Developed to provide assistance in the building of an effective home-based program for Head Start children and their families, this handbook may serve as a blueprint for parent-focused home visits that assist the child and family to meet their special needs. Chapter one focuses on the home visitation model for providing services to families and…
Descriptors: Family Counseling, Family Involvement, Family Programs, Home Programs
Peer reviewedLeventhal, John M. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2001
This commentary reviews progress towards the development and implementation of home-based services aimed at preventing abuse and neglect and promoting the health and development of the infant and mother. The effectiveness of the Healthy Families model and the Olds' model are highlighted, and challenges facing home visitation programs are…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Child Rearing, Early Childhood Education
PDF pending restorationRoberts, Richard N.; And Others – 1991
This report reviews the 248 home visiting programs serving children ages birth to 18 which provide a written training curriculum to their paraprofessionals. Programs were identified as part of a national survey of 4,162 potential home visiting programs (1,904 responses). Through a categorization process, 115 programs were identified as having…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Children, Home Programs
Traustadottir, Rannveig – 1987
The case study, one of a series of reports describing innovative practices in integrating people with disabilities into community life, describes the Community Training and Education (CITE) Program in Cincinnati (Ohio), which provides training and education for children with disabilities and their families through home-based services. The program…
Descriptors: Agencies, Children, Delivery Systems, Eligibility
Conley, Virginia R. – 1977
This paper describes a home-based early childhood program in operation in the Memphis city school system and presents a rationale for early education and for parent involvement. The program involves educationally deprived 3- and 4-year-olds in eight preschool centers located in Title I schools. A parent or significant caretaker of each child…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Rearing, Early Childhood Education, Home Programs
Peer reviewedGotts, Edward E. – Childhood Education, 1980
A progress report of research on the long-term effects of a home-oriented preschool program. (CM)
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Childhood Needs, Educational Television, Home Programs
Peer reviewedBraithwaite, John; Healy, Muriel – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 1979
Discusses the objectives, practices, and values associated with home-based early childhood programs. (MP)
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Home Programs, Home Visits, Nontraditional Education
Henderson, Bill – Principal, 2000
A Boston principal reflects on decade-long efforts to get students and their families to read together. Initiatives ranged from reading contests and upgraded reading materials to reading contracts, literacy shows, parent/home visiting programs, pizza parties, and off-site tutors. Persistence paid off in higher reading scores. (MLH)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Family School Relationship, Home Programs, Home Visits
Strong, Carol J.; Clark, Thomas C. – 1990
This program evaluation report presents information on Project SKI*HI, a home-based program for infants and young children with hearing impairments and their families. The program's major goals are early identification of hearing-impaired infants and a home program to facilitate child development. A parent advisor makes weekly home visits to each…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs, Early Intervention, Handicap Identification
Scott, Ralph – 1978
This presentation discusses longitudinal results of a home-based program for low SES black and white children whose parents received weekly visits designed to chart children's individualized enrichment when they were from 2 to 5 years of age. The program drew upon school and community resource personnel when appropriate, to provide parents with…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Blacks, Disadvantaged Youth
Levenstein, Phyllis – 1979
This paper provides a checklist of 10 potential ethical problems associated with intervention in families through home-based programs. Problems which directly involve program participants are (1) pressure on parents to join the program, (2) violation of confidentiality, (3) intrusiveness, (4) need to respect the family's style of living, (5)…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Confidentiality, Early Childhood Education, Ethics
