The Pre-Kindergarten Program for Hospitalized Children funded under Elementary Secondary Education Act Title VI was designed to offer pre-school instruction from September 1974, through June 1975 to handicapped and hospitalized pre-kindergarten children. The services of the program included diagnosis, individual and group instruction, and…

Presented by the Technical Assistance Development System are a planning model for the specification of problems and an evaluation strategy for information collection to implement decision making in the First Chance network of programs for preschool handicapped children. The first chapter offers a planning model in terms of measurable goals,…

Presented is the final report of a demonstration project in Child Advocacy operated in a rural area of a large suburban county. A discussion of the project's history focuses on such topics as the formation of an interagency task force for emotionally disturbed youth, funding possibilities, needs assessment, and the introduction of a local family…

The Child Development-Head Start program of Hartford is described. Included is a statement of needs, program objectives, a description of the components (sites), and the evaluation plan. This Head Start program has special provisions for Spanish bilingual as well as handicapped children. Parent involvement is stressed. Results of the evaluation…

Described and evaluated were 18 Oregon projects for handicapped children at the preschool, elementary, and secondary school levels funded under Title VI of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Handicapping conditions and the number of children served were as follows: emotionally disturbed (199), learning disabled (185), trainable…

Reported are the conclusions of a summer institute of special educators for the purpose of evaluating the appropriateness of the open-middle school for the exceptional child. The study is based on the ideas of architects Michael Bednar and David Haviland, who order exceptionalities along a continuum of intactness of the adaptive mechanism and…

This book contains papers and speeches presented at the 14th National Conference of the Australian Preschool Association held in Melbourne in May 1976. Topics discussed include early childhood education, handicapped children, parental involvement in education, evaluating preschool programs, day care, teaching young children, interdisciplinary…

Presented is an evaluation of a program designed to provide intensive reading instruction to individual hospitalized, handicapped children in New York City. The project is noted to have served 375 children in 22 hospital settings and involved 32 teachers. Reported are findings indicating that approximately 92% of the pupils mastered at least one…

The report details the accomplishments and slippages of Project PUSH-Outreach, a program for the early education of handicapped children, during the year June, 1977 to July, 1978. It is explained that the staff conducted five workshops during the years and the objectives, methods of presentation, number of contract hours, agency, number of…

During the last decade, there has been an increasing demand from the government, clients, certifying bodies, and the contributing public for human service agencies serving the handicapped to provide full information about their finances, operation, and services. (Author)

The Bridge To School Program was designed to supplement and extend the scope of an ongoing early childhood developmental program, the "Readiness Program", by providing individualized attention and instruction to specially selected seriously learning disabled children between the ages of 5 and 7 in order to facilitate the development of…

The Handicapped Children's Early Education Assistance Act of 1968 (Public Law 90-538), which provides for establishing 75 to 100 model programs for preschool handicapped children, is reviewed in terms of the problem it is intended to meet. Major provisions of the law are summarized, including those for program development and implementation;…

Whereas the question included on handicapped children in the 1965 school census in Madison (Wisconsin) yielded incomplete results, the 1966 school census employing a questionnaire identified 314 handicapped children not in school. Of these, 50% were enrolled in an educational program, 52% were male, 58% were preschoolers, and 42% were aged 6 to…

The Sodus School District provided comprehensive services for over 300 migrant children from infants to teenagers, along with an intensive staff training summer laboratory school. The Day Care Centers gave 30 children a headstart with scholastic activities to ease adjustment problems when they entered regular school. To relieve the inconsistancy…

This paper reviews research findings concerning the effects on young children of major Federal programs in education and child care. It offers a summary rather than a detailed view of research on the impact of programs, and is based primarily on major program evaluation reports and research reviews. In addition, it draws upon a small number of…