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Catalino, Tricia, Ed.; Meyer, Lori E., Ed. – Division for Early Childhood of the Council for Exceptional Children, 2016
Environment is an essential area of attention for practitioners who support young children with disabilities and their families. Decisions about the environment impact the quality of care and education for young children with disabilities showing measurable influence on expected outcomes. Environment impacts true access, quality participation, and…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Students with Disabilities, Educational Environment, Assistive Technology
Caro, Francis G.; Blank, Arthur E. – 1984
Research has found that approximately 80 percent of the care received by elderly people living at home is provided by family members. Although assistance provided by informal supports can be important in sustaining the functionally disabled elderly at home, caregiving can have important negative effects on the informal providers. To examine the…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Family Involvement, Health Services, Helping Relationship
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Pinkston, Elsie; Linsk, Nathan L. – Gerontologist, 1984
Describes the Elderly Support Project designed to teach families better home care of the mentally and physically impaired elderly. Findings supported the procedures as valuable for promoting continuing home care, better mental status, and improved behavior of elderly clients by offering families alternative positive responses. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Disabilities, Family Involvement, Family Role
Bloom, Barbara – 1991
This document is a report of the Early Childhood Intervention Programs (ECIPs) in Saskatchewan (Canada), covering 1984 to 1990. The report describes: the ECIP approach to early intervention; the children who are enrolled in the ECIPs; children's levels of development when entering and leaving the ECIP; changes in rates of development while in…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Programs, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education
Rowan, Lori; And Others – 1997
This report documents the activities and outcomes of the 5-year model demonstration project AHEAD (At Home and At Day Care), a Utah program that is designed to deliver services to infants, toddlers, and young children (ages birth-3) with noncategorical disabilities. The program delivers services to the children and their caregivers in their…
Descriptors: Day Care, Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Early Intervention
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Hanft, Barbara E.; Pilkington, Kristine Ovland – Infants and Young Children, 2000
This article explores how providing early intervention in natural environments reinforces family-centered care, discusses benefits for all parties when therapy is provided within daily routines and settings, describes a decision-making process for embedding natural environments within intervention, and concludes by identifying challenges and…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Disabilities, Early Intervention, Family Involvement
Goetz, Kathy, Ed. – Family Resource Coalition Report, 1994
This double issue of the journal "Report" focuses on the collaboration among seven social service systems that support and serve children and families. Each of the sections discusses one of the seven systems, presents an overview essay, and profiles programs that execute the service. The first section, on education, emphasizes linkages…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Blacks, Child Welfare, Community Involvement
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Pickett, Anna Lou; And Others – 1993
These instructional materials are designed to provide personnel developers and trainers with resources that can be used to improve the performance of paraeducators working in center-based and home visitor programs for young children with disabilities from birth to age 5. The modules cover: (1) roles of paraeducators working in inclusive…
Descriptors: Child Development, Communication Skills, Competency Based Education, Disabilities
Stremel, Kathleen; And Others – 1992
This paper on facilitating skill development of infants and toddlers with disabilities within family-child routines focuses on: (1) developing a routine analysis by incorporating multiple Individual Family Service Plan (IFSP) objectives into family-selected routines; (2) utilizing systematic family training procedures to integrate targeted skills…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Early Intervention, Family Involvement, Family Life
Trans-Management Systems, Inc. – 1993
A revision of the 1989 publication, this directory was compiled in order to help parents and professionals involved with Head Start home-based programming in meeting the needs of young children and families. The directory lists a broad range of guides and resources on topics related to Head Start home-based programs. Each listing provides the…
Descriptors: Child Health, Disabilities, Family Involvement, Health Promotion
Hattie Larlham Foundation, Mantua, OH. – 1996
This report describes a model designed to provide family-centered, community-based coordinated services for families and their children with chronic health care needs. The model, which was implemented to serve 208 children over a 5-year period, is based on three key concepts: families should have the choice to receive services in their homes and…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Chronic Illness, Community Programs, Consultation Programs
Pickett, Anna Lou; Semrau, Barbara; Faison, Karen; Formanek, John – 1999
These instructional materials are designed to provide personnel developers and trainers with resources that can be used to improve the performance of paraeducators working in center-based and home visitor programs for young children with disabilities from birth to age 5. The modules cover: (1) strengthening the instructional team, the roles of…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Development Centers, Communication Skills, Competency Based Education
Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock. – 1980
Home-based intervention, using paraprofessional teachers and the concept of "parent as teacher," was provided by this 3-year project (1977-1980) for handicapped children aged birth through 4 and their families in 10 rural West Texas counties comprising approximately 9,100 square miles, with 14 to 20 people per square mile. Most families…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Family Involvement
Bunse, Carol; Deardorff, Pamela – 2001
This project was designed to provide training to personnel serving infants and young children with disabilities and their families. The outcome was increased capacity for state and local service agencies in Oregon, California, and Idaho to deliver quality home-based services for young children (birth through six) with disabilities and their…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Consultants, Disabilities, Diversity (Student)
Bunse, Carol; Deardorff, Pamela – 2000
The Family Consultant Model (FCT) was designed to provide training to personnel serving infants and young children with disabilities and their families. This was accomplished through the replication of the FCT Model within local programs presently serving infants, toddlers and their families. Training in the FCT model was provided to…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Consultants, Disabilities, Diversity (Student)