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Peer reviewedHanft, Barbara E.; Pilkington, Kristine Ovland – Infants and Young Children, 2000
This article explores how providing early intervention in natural environments reinforces family-centered care, discusses benefits for all parties when therapy is provided within daily routines and settings, describes a decision-making process for embedding natural environments within intervention, and concludes by identifying challenges and…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Disabilities, Early Intervention, Family Involvement
Download full textRoth, Jeffrey – 1996
Family literacy programs have arisen in an attempt to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty and illiteracy. Numerous federally-supported family literacy programs have recognized the importance of instructing parents and children in a home setting. The legislation of Even Start seeks to integrate parenting education, adult basic education,…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Early Childhood Education, Educational Theories, Family Environment
Research Assessment Management, Inc., Silver Spring, MD. – 1993
The Head Start home-based supervisor provides guidance, support, direction, and continuing staff development opportunities while attempting to maintain and improve quality of services to Head Start children and families. This guide is designed to help the home-based supervisor in carrying out responsibilities while supporting the home visitor, who…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Burnout, Coping, Home Programs
Levenstein, Phyllis – 1979
This essay discusses methodological and ethical problems in the implementation and evaluation of home-based intervention programs for young children and their families. Part I notes the difficulties in (1) selecting an appropriate research design to evaluate a program (e.g., preventing sample bias), (2) specifying precisely the intervention method…
Descriptors: Ethics, Family Programs, Home Programs, Home Visits
Guinagh, Barry J.; And Others – 1975
The overall purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness and practicability of a home-centered preschool intervention program for cognitive, language, and personality development of mother and child, based upon the use of paraprofessional educators who are themselves members of the population served. One question considered was…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Educational Research, Educationally Disadvantaged, Home Programs
Nardo, Nita – 1972
This guide presents the scheme and direction for personnel training in the Home-Oriented Preschool Education (HOPE) Program, which uses three modes of instruction (televised, mobile classroom, and parent instruction) to educate 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds. The importance of team instruction, the goals and methods of inservice training, and day-by-day…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Educational Television, Guides, Home Programs
Gordon, Ira J. – 1971
Approximately 258 mothers and their children (aged 3 months to 3 years) participated in a home visit program using paraprofessionals as home visitors on a once-a-week basis in the first two years of life, combined with a small-group setting for four hours a week for children 2 to 3 years old. Findings indicate that such a Home Learning Center…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Economically Disadvantaged, Flow Charts, Home Programs
Levenstein, Phyllis – 1969
The verbal and cognitive effects of both a Toy Demonstrator and a similar home visitor who abstained from stimulation techniques were studied in the Verbal Interaction Project. Three groups of children, totalling 54, participated in the study from July 1967 through June 1968. One group received "double intervention" (Toy Demonstrator),…
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedHirsch, Josephine S.; And Others – Child Welfare, 1976
A description of an experimental, social agency program which helps parents cope with their children's behavior problems within the home. (BRT)
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Case Studies, Caseworker Approach, Elementary Education
Molloy, Brenda – 2002
Home visiting is the strategy used by the Community Mothers Programme to enhance parenting skills of first-time mothers from economically disadvantaged areas in Dublin, Ireland. The home visitors are all women from the community who volunteer to visit parents in their homes once a month for 1 hour over a 12-month period. In a 1989 evaluation, 232…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Early Intervention, Economically Disadvantaged, Followup Studies
Klass, Carol S. – 1996
Written from a multidisciplinary perspective, this handbook for home visitors provides functional, field test guidance techniques for working with parents and children from birth to 5 years. The guide offers techniques to enhance children's development in conjunction with educating and supporting families. Firsthand account of home visits…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Family Programs, Home Programs
Peer reviewedWayman, Karen I.; And Others – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1991
This article discusses the family systems framework and its implications for understanding families with developmentally disabled infants/toddlers from diverse cultures. It presents guidelines to assist home visitors in becoming sensitive to culture's effects on family values, beliefs, and practices, and describes the phases of a home visit and…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Developmental Disabilities, Early Intervention
Vigo, Brenda S. – 1994
This paper describes the implementation of three major parent education programs and their strategies. Following an introduction to the efforts made in the Philippines to empower parents, the paper briefly describes the Programme of Cooperation and the Education for All National Plan of Action. Three case studies, all of which use different parent…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Delivery Systems, Early Childhood Education, Educational Radio
Gray, Susan W.; Ruttle, Kristi – 1976
Fifty-one low-income families, each with a toddler, plus at least one other child under age 5, participated in a 5-year home-based intervention study designed to help mothers become more effective educational change agents. One group received a 9-month treatment specifically designed for the needs and characteristics of the individual families;…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Family Characteristics, Home Programs, Home Visits
PETERSON, ROBERT F. – 1967
THE ADVANTAGES AND PROBLEMS OF EXPANDING THE BEHAVIOR LABORATORY FROM THE CLINIC TO THE CHILD'S HOME ARE DISCUSSED. RECENTLY, ATTEMPTS HAVE BEEN MADE TO DELINEATE THE EXACT OPERATIONS RESPONSIBLE FOR TREATMENT EFFECTS. TRADITIONALLY, THERAPY HAS BEEN CLINIC BASED. HOWEVER, HOME VISITS ARE IMPORTANT BECAUSE--(1) THE THERAPIST SHOULD OBSERVE PROBLEM…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Behavior Theories, Clinics
