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Peer reviewedLlewellyn, Gwynnyth; McConnell, David; Honey, Anne; Mayes, Rachel; Russo, Domenica – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 2003
This study evaluated a home-based intervention for parents with intellectual disability to promote child health and home safety in the preschool years. The intervention improved parents' ability to recognize home dangers and to handle emergencies, increased their knowledge about illness and medicines, and increased the number of safety precautions…
Descriptors: Health Education, Home Instruction, Intervention, Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedRaven, John – Scottish Educational Review, 1980
Giving particular attention to the Lothian Region (Scotland) Preschool Educational Home Visiting Scheme, the author argues that such programs may be a gross interference in the lives of those concerned and that, far from teaching better mothering, home visitors may inhibit it by making mothers feel powerless and incompetent. (SJL)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Failure, Home Instruction, Intervention
Barnett, W. Steven; And Others – Journal of the Division for Early Childhood, 1988
The economic efficiency of alternative types of intervention was investigated with language-impaired preschool children. Forty children were assigned to one of four groups: home-based intervention, center-based intervention, both center- and home-based intervention, and no treatment. The home-based program was more economically efficient based on…
Descriptors: Clinics, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Home Instruction
Download full textSonoma State Univ., Rohnert Park, CA. California Inst. of Human Services. – 1982
Activities and accomplishments of the Napa (California) program for disabled infants, birth to 5 years old, are summarized; and forms and program materials are presented. Components of the program, which served 25 children (birth to 3 years old) in 1981-1982, are discusssed as follows: early identification of children at risk; developmental…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Developmental Stages, Disabilities, Early Identification
