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Peer reviewedRamey, Craig T.; Campbell, Frances A. – School Review, 1979
Summarizes rationale for early childhood educational intervention efforts and describes the Carolina Abcedarian Project: a longitudinal, early educational program providing supplemental preschool experiences designed to prevent the cumulative and progressive decline in intellectual and socially adaptive behavior shown by children from extreme…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Infants
Download full textRamey, Craig T.; Ramey, Sharon Landesman – 1992
Three early educational intervention programs designed to prevent mental retardation and to improve school readiness are profiled. The Abecedarian Project was begun as an experiment to test whether mental retardation, allegedly caused by inadequate environments, could be prevented by providing intensive preschool programs to children from birth to…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Birth Weight, Children, Cognitive Development
