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Sweeney, Wilma K. – 1998
This annotated resource guide lists books, periodicals, and organizations relevant to the needs of parents of children with disabilities. The books and periodicals were chosen as being up-to-date, accurate, written in parent-friendly language, written with a parent's information or support needs in mind, generally affordable, or considered a…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Child Rearing, Disabilities, Family Environment
Roosevelt Univ., Chicago, IL. Coll. of Education. – 1978
This booklet offers guidelines for parents on selecting a good quality day care home. Lists of questions are provided to help parents judge the physical setting, the learning activities, the caregiver, meals served and the safety of the day care home. Also discussed are advantages of family day care, things to consider when making arrangements for…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Directories, Facility Requirements, Family Day Care
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McNally, Anne; Catlett, Camille; Winton, Pamela J. – Young Exceptional Children, 2002
This article lists eight resources for providing effective services to very young children who are deaf or hard-of-hearing and their families. Resources address communication options, early intervention, aural-oral and sign options for hearing families in early home programming, cochlear implants, and sharing the joy of storytelling with toddlers…
Descriptors: Books, Child Rearing, Cochlear Implants, Deafness
Gardner, Stephen E., Ed.; And Others – 1994
In 1993, "Signs of Effectiveness in Preventing Alcohol and Other Drug Problems" appeared. It addressed alcohol and other drug use as a health problem influenced by risk factors in five life spheres or domains: individual, family, school, peer group, and community. Like its predecessor, "Signs of Effectiveness II" reports on…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcohol Abuse, Children, Delinquency
Proffitt, Maris M. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1935
The information in this bulletin was secured with the help of the State departments of education in locating the schools, and then through direct correspondence with the schools themselves or from catalogs or supplementary material furnished by them. The schools included range from those of elementary grade giving a few fundamental industrial…
Descriptors: Correspondence Schools, Tuition, Private Schools, Proprietary Schools
Indiana Univ., Bloomington. Indiana Resource Center for Autism. – 1997
This collection of articles and bibliographies provides a comprehensive guide to autism. Section 1 presents general information on autism such as characteristics, myths and facts about autism, factors associated with autism, and diagnostic criteria for autism and Asperger's disorder. Section 2, on the family, addresses such aspects as the…
Descriptors: Adults, Asperger Syndrome, Autism, Children