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Isaki, Emi; Harmon, Mary Towle – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2015
This exploratory Intergenerational Program (IGP) focused on reading to determine whether it affects mood and communication in older adults with mild dementia and neurocognitive deficits, and if it influences school-aged children's perceptions of older adults over time. Six older adults with cognitive-communication deficits and 12 school-aged…
Descriptors: Intergenerational Programs, Older Adults, Dementia, Children
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Salas, Spencer; Safaradan, Majid; de le Torre Ugarte, Ana Maria – English Teaching Forum, 2008
This article is a reflection of English teaching in Chiclayo, Peru, at a not-for-profit cultural center. It starts with a brief explanation of the authors' desire to help transform the community through English teaching. The article then explains the concept of civic education and offers a three-tiered approach that has been designed to help the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Community Programs
Wasik, Barbara A.; Slavin, Robert E. – 1990
This study reports the results of a best-evidence synthesis of research on the use of one-to-one tutoring delivered by adults to students in the primary grades who are learning to read. The synthesis includes research on five programs: Reading Recovery, Success for All, Prevention of Learning Disabilities, the Wallach Tutorial Program, and…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary School Students, Intergenerational Programs
Lowenthal, Barbara; Egan, Rosemary W. – 1989
This document reports on the effects of an integenerational program which was conducted to involve senior citizen volunteers with preschool children in a university day care setting. The primary emphases of the project were to enhance the children's reading readiness and foster a mutually beneficial relationship between seniors and children.…
Descriptors: Intergenerational Programs, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Program Descriptions
Kerka, Sandra – 1991
Family and intergenerational literacy programs are intended to improve the literacy of educationally disadvantaged parents and children, based on the assumption that improving the literacy skills of parents results in better educational experiences for their children. A typology for classifying family literacy programs has two dimensions: type of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Cultural Context, Elementary Education, Family Literacy
Hoffman, Janet B. – 1992
An intergenerational literacy program was developed for 40 teenage parents and their children enrolled in an alternative education center. The program was designed to empower teenage parents to develop the emerging literacy of their children while reducing their own literacy deficiencies. The Once upon a Time-Together program acquainted teenage…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Beginning Reading, Early Childhood Education, Early Parenthood