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Direct linkUllery, Mary Anne; Katz, Lynne – Exceptionality, 2016
This study examined the rates of special education placement during middle school grades (sixth through eighth) among children who participated in the Linda Ray Intervention Program (LRIP) center-based and home-based learning modalities. The study sample included 113 children in Miami Dade County Public Schools who had gestational cocaine exposure…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Placement, Special Education, Early Intervention
Peer reviewedScarr, Sandra; McCartney, Kathleen – Child Development, 1988
Effects of the Mother-Child Home Program (MCHP) were evaluated with a broad range of measures on cognition, social behavior, and emotion. Findings indicated that children in Bermuda scored above U.S. norms on cognitive tests and were functioning well in the preschool period. The MCHP had few demonstrable effects on any segment of the sample. (RH)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Economically Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries, Home Programs
Yahraes, Herbert – 1977
Described is a project in which poor Black and White parents were trained by paraprofessional visitors to use simple stimulation activites with their infants. Results of Stanford-Binet Scores at age 6 are said to indicate that four of the seven experimental groups scored significantly higher than control groups; and followup at grade 3 indicated…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Exceptional Child Research
Download full textLeitner, David – 1999
A study reports on the Nevada Even Start Family Literacy Program (NEST), which provides educational opportunities to parents and children as a family unit through core services such as adult, parenting, and early childhood education. Questions asked in the study were who the program serves, what services are received, how funding is allocated, how…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Early Childhood Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Family Literacy
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
Dunn, Polly P.; And Others – 1984
Between 1982 and 1983, more than 750 homemakers from Pennsylvania and Massachusetts participated in a national study to test selected methods of delivering nutrition education to low-income families. The study, the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP)/Food Stamp Pilot Project, was conducted through the EFNEP in 10 states. At the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Correspondence Study, Delivery Systems, Economically Disadvantaged
Levenstein, Phyllis – 1978
This presentation reports research findings which link children's social-emotional skills at ages 4 and 6 to concurrent and antecedent verbal interaction behaviors of their mothers. Forty-five low-income mothers and children who voluntarily participated in the Mother-Child Home Program of the Verbal Interaction Project from 1972 to 1974 were…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Correlation, Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary School Students
