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ERIC Number: ED132816
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1976
Pages: 9
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The Infant-Parent Training Program.
Drezek, Wendy
The Infant-Parent Training Program is a model program providing day care, therapy-nursery, and home programs for handicapped children from 0 to 3 years old. Upon intake into the program, both parents and children attend four 1-hour diagnostic sessions during which children are assessed in the areas of cognitive functioning, language functioning, social-emotional functioning, responses to classroom and teaching styles, and motor, neurological, and speech functioning. Parent-child classes are held weekly in which the teacher models specific therapy activities or interaction games, trains the parent, and encourages the parent to elaborate activities to fit his particular interaction style. The day care center program combines elements of "good mothering", traditional preschool activities, and a structured prescriptive approach. Results from evaluations for 1973-74 and 1974-75 show that there were positive qualitative changes in children's behaviors; that children, on the whole, made excellent progress at the preschool level; and that parents' responses were overwhelmingly positive to the program. (SBH)
Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Sponsor: Bureau of Education for the Handicapped (DHEW/OE), Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: Austin - Travis County Mental Health - Mental Retardation Center, TX.
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