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High Intellectual Ability: Extracurricular Enrichment and Cognitive Management
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Sastre-Riba, Sylvia – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2013
This study aims to provide a better understanding of high intellectual abilities and of how to address the educational needs of those who possess such abilities. Within the emergent paradigm, high intellectual abilities are understood as multidimensional and as the result of lifetime development; that is, not only are they the result of their…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Intellectual Development, Extracurricular Activities, Enrichment Activities
Prevention of Intellectual Impairment in Children of Women Who Smoking during Pregnancy.
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Olds, David L.; And Others – Pediatrics, 1984
Analyzed the influence of a comprehensive program of nurse home visitation on the intellectual functioning of children born to women who smoked cigarettes during pregnancy. Found that comprehensive home-visitation services before and after delivery can offset the impairment in intellectual functioning associated with substantial maternal smoking…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Home Visits, Intellectual Development, Intervention
Early Intervention for Low Birth Weight, Premature Infants: Participation and Intellectual Development.
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Blair, Clancy; And Others – 1993
The Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), an eight-site randomized controlled trial of a comprehensive intervention program combining home visits, child centers, and parent meetings with pediatric follow-up and referral, effectively reduced the incidence of health and developmental problems in a sample of 377 low birth weight, premature…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Early Intervention, Intellectual Development, Intelligence Quotient
A Sequential Approach to Early Childhood and Elementary Education, Phase II. Grant Report.
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Van De Riet, Vernon; And Others – 1970
This report is the 2-year followup evaluation of a proposed 4-year grant, studying the effects of a sequential learning program on disadvantaged children. Four- and 5-year-olds (N=86) were matched on several developmental variables, with one group at each age entering the Learning to Learn Program at either the nursery or kindergarten level. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Comparative Testing, Disadvantaged
Early Intervention for Low Birthweight, Premature Infants: Participation and Intellectual Development.
Blair, Clancy; And Others – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1995
The Infant Health and Development Program was an eight-site randomized controlled trial of comprehensive early intervention for low birthweight, premature infants from birth to age three. Higher mental development and IQ were associated with high levels of intervention participation at 24 and 36 (but not 12) months. A dose-response relation…
Descriptors: Birth Weight, Cognitive Development, Early Intervention, Infants
Games as an Instruction Strategy in Early Childhood Education: Summative and Formative Evaluations.
Karnes, Merle B.; Lee, Richard C. – 1978
A game-oriented curriculum was devised to promote the cognitive-language and social-emotional development of preschool children from low socioeconomic backgrounds. The Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities, supplemented by Guilford's Structure of the Intellect, served as models. The games included such materials as card packs, models and…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cognitive Development, Conventional Instruction, Disadvantaged Youth