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Aprill, Kay Hodges; Schifani, John – 1983
A home based infant stimulation program for handicapped preschoolers in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana, has been successful and cost effective. Home teachers help parents implement a precise, individualized curriculum. Physical and speech therapists are available as well. Other program emphases include providing emotional support to parents and…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Home Programs, Individualized Instruction, Infants
Widerstrom, Anne H.; Goodwin, Laura D. – Journal of the Division for Early Childhood, 1987
Follow-up study of 4- to 14-year-old children (N=42) who had participated in a home-based infant stimulation program indicated that approximately 66 percent of subjects (most of whom had serious developmental disabilities) were in special education programs full-time, 20 percent were mainstreamed, and 15 percent were in regular classrooms…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Disabilities, Followup Studies, Home Programs
Download full textJelinek, Janis A.; Flamboe, Thomas C. – 1979
The Wyoming Infant Stimulation Program (WISP) provides a comprehensive preschool program utilizing both center-based and home-based intervention for handicapped preschool children (age 0-3 years) and their families in rural Wyoming. A developmental-prescriptive model is used and the curriculum objective is that each child will progress according…
Descriptors: Educational Diagnosis, Educational Objectives, Handicapped Children, Home Programs
Barbrack, Christopher R.; Horton, Della M. – DARCEE Papers and Reports (George Peabody College for Teachers), 1970
The present study compared the relative effectiveness of three home visiting projects whose purpose was to train low income mothers to use commonly available materials and everyday events for the educational stimulation of their preschool children. The home visiting projects varied in terms of expense and professional qualifications of the home…
Descriptors: Career Opportunities, Cognitive Development, Compensatory Education, Costs
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
Mothers as Early Cognitive Trainers: Guiding Low-Income Mothers to Work with Their Pre-Preschoolers.
Levenstein, Phyllis – 1971
The Mother-Child Home Program was planned as a home-based, two-year cognitive intervention method. Women with varied incomes and education, both volunteer and paid, made 30-minute home visits twice weekly to help mothers become cognitive trainers of their own toddlers (starting at age two). Mother-child verbal interaction was stimulated with gifts…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Home Programs, Home Visits
