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Quay, Lorene C. – 1993
This research review focuses on the effects of early intervention on the preschool children of low-income families, examining studies of intervention programs begun in the 1960s through the present. It then relates this analysis to the new Georgia Prekindergarten Program. The interventions reviewed are grouped into four hierarchical categories…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Disadvantaged Environment, Environmental Influences, Family Programs
Pelletier, Jean-Gerard – Children in the Tropics, 1993
This report examines the immediate and underlying causes of malnutrition in the developing world. The first section discusses the effects of malnutrition on childhood development and examines the efficacy of nutritional rehabilitation. The second section addresses the medical effects of severe malnutrition, including the onset of ponderostatural…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Child Health, Children, Cultural Influences
Mintz, Mindy S.; Cuffie, Kevin L. – 1993
This report critically examines special education in Baltimore (Maryland) public schools and proposes major reform of Baltimore's special education system. Criticisms focus on: poor instructional quality (there is little "special" about special education); segregation of special education students from regular education; special…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Disabilities, Early Intervention, Educational Change
Williams, Dennis – 1994
This guide addresses issues concerned with the reintegration of students with traumatic brain injuries (TBI) into the classroom. It first provides a definition of TBI and identifies characteristics of students with TBI. The guide then discusses cognitive consequences of TBI, with emphasis on deficits of executive function, attention, and memory.…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Attention Span, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems
Ilfeld, Ellen M., Ed. – Coordinator's Notebook, 1994
In 1990, the World Conference on Education for All renewed the world's commitment to ensuring the rights of all people to education and knowledge. This theme issue of the "Coordinator's Notebook" introduces the Education for All initiative and surveys what has been done (and needs to be done) to address the education needs of young…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Child Development, Developing Nations, Developmental Programs
Winborne, Duvon; And Others – 1990
This paper describes the District of Columbia's system for tracking at-risk and disabled infants during their first 3 years of life. The project involves a computerized system for following the developmental progress of at-risk infants identified at birth or other times. The project monitors the activities of children within various service…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, At Risk Persons, Child Development, Computer Networks
California State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1990
This report focuses on issues relating to replenishing California's college faculty and increasing the number of faculty due to increasing student enrollment. The report provides recommendations for both higher education institutions and the State on 12 policy options that hold promise for increasing the supply of individuals with doctoral degrees…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, College Faculty, Demand Occupations, Doctoral Degrees
McGonigel, Mary J., Ed.; And Others – 1991
This monograph presents identified best practices in the development of Individualized Family Service Plans (IFSP) as required for families who have young children with disabilities, by Public Law 99-457, the Education of the Handicapped Act Amendments (1986). Chapter One presents an overview of the monograph's development and use. Chapter Two…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Early Intervention
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Bogdan, Robert; Taylor, Steven J. – Qualitative Sociology, 1990
This paper presents an example of "optimistic research," a qualitative approach which focuses on positive interventions helpful to practitioners, in this case an examination of programs successfully integrating people with severe disabilities. The study evaluated 40 programs through site visits which focus on observation, interviews, and…
Descriptors: Adoption, Adults, Children, Community Programs
Pollock, John S. – 1991
The purpose of the 1990-91 Reading Recovery Program in the Columbus, Ohio public schools was to provide early intervention to underachieving first-grade pupils who appeared unlikely to read successfully without intensive instruction. The program featured individualized one-on-one lessons provided by specially trained teachers. The lessons were…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Compensatory Education, Early Intervention, Family Involvement
Bergen, Doris – 1991
This paper reviews the current literature on the suggested uses of play for assessment, prevention, and intervention with special needs children. The paper also uses case studies to illustrate the ways play is being used to facilitate achievement of early intervention goals and discusses advantages and disadvantages of these uses of play. The…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Development, Developmental Disabilities, Early Intervention
Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC. – 1989
This report describes the Federal commitment to improve early intervention services that enhance development and minimize the later dependence of infants and toddlers with handicaps. It presents the results of a joint study, completed by the Department of Education (DoE) and the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), of early intervention…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, At Risk Persons, Coordination, Delivery Systems
Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto (Ontario). – 1991
This booklet discusses the impact and treatment of the two craniosynostosis syndromes (Apert and Crouzon), which involve the premature fusion of skull sutures, are usually identified at birth, and require years of treatment. It is noted that children with Apert syndrome may have some degree of mental retardation while children with Crouzon…
Descriptors: Congenital Impairments, Emotional Adjustment, Foreign Countries, Hearing Impairments
Kjerland, Linda; Eide, Kathleen Corrigan – 1990
This booklet presents principles of Project DAKOTA, a demonstration project to provide services to infants and young children with disabilities via their families and community. Project goals are listed, including a focus on those needs considered essential by parents and the use of natural settings and resources for intervention. Guidelines are…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Early Intervention, Evaluation Methods
Pawl, Jeree, Ed. – Zero to Three, 1991
This newsletter issue is about the growth of programs that serve infants, toddlers, and their families, and the management of that growth. The articles address early intervention programs with infants and young children with disabilities. The first article, "Implementing a Multi-site, Multidisciplinary Clinical Trial: The Infant Health and…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs
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