The paper describes the School-Home-Community Program for 12 3-7-year-old hearing impaired children in Miller County and Little River County, Arkansas. Program objectives are noted to include involvement of community agencies and groups in initiating a model program for children with hard-of-hearing handicaps and participation of parents in the…

A three-year home-teaching demonstration project with the geriatric blind was conducted with 171 clients in the experimental group (132 were blind for 10 years or less and were 60 years of age or older, 11 were blind 17 years or longer, 7 were in an apartment group, 7 died, and 14 had incomplete records) and 44 clients in the control group. The…

In 1974, the Facilitating Educational Achievement through Telecommunications (FEATT) project began a study to test the efficacy of specially produced video cassettes to teach parents of severely handicapped children how to instruct their children in basic psychomotor skills. Fifty families in Northern Indiana agreed to field test the tapes.…

Discusses the Home Start program, the new three-year Head Start demonstration program designed to bring comprehensive child development services to children and families in their own homes by helping parents provide many of the same services Head Start offers children in centers. (Author/JM)

This paper describes an early intervention model demonstration project providing center- and home-based instruction to children with severe/profound handicaps, aged birth to three years, and their parents. The social reciprocity model used, participating children, daily activities, and evaluative findings are discussed. (Author/PB)

Parent training goals, models, and predictors of effectiveness are examined with examples from three parent training models: (1) a combination of group sessions and intensive in-home consultation visits to prepare families receiving their child home again after residential treatment; (2) intensive in-home training intended to prevent residential…

The program development guide describes the Fairfax County (Virginia) Noncategorical Early Childhood Program (NECP) which serves approximately 75 mildly and moderately handicapped children from 2 to 8 years of age with either a preschool home resource program, a class based preschool program, or a class based primary program. The guide is designed…

Project RITCH (Research In Total Communication in the Home) developed a model videotape program to teach total communication to families of young hearing-impaired children in their homes. Discussed are the process of designing the videotape prototype, field testing, characteristics of a model home program, and videotape distribution through local…

The document provides reports on 92 model programs serving families with developmentally disabled individuals. Programs range from the avoidance of residential care, through an active parent staff intervention activity, to the outreach by staff into the home of the child where the parent has been trained to carry out a number of activities, to the…

Project Homebound by the Butte Vocational Technical Center and School District Number 1, Butte, Montana, entails the teaching of American Indian and Mexican American adult basic education (ABE) students in their own homes. A unique aspect of this program is the use of personnel with varied educational backgrounds: master teachers (with…

In phase 2 of a cooperative venture with the Salt Lake City School District, Olympus Research Center demonstrated and disseminated a system of materials developed in phase 1 to extend career education for preschool children to the home. (See ED 164 922 for the final report.) The materials included a book, films, and filmstrips with audio…

This paper describes a pilot program conducted in Baltimore County, Maryland, which involves using an Apple IIc computer with homebound students. The computer is used to initiate a unit or topic, to provide drill and practice, to review or reinforce a concept, and to motivate students. A sample home teaching lesson plan on the topic of measurement…

Part of an experiment in adult basic education (ABE) in students' homes by volunteers of differing social and economic backgrounds, Project Homebound in Butte, Montana, was marked by a rise in student enrollment from 81 to 155 during the second quarter (October-December 1970) of its operation. Six certified teachers and consultants serving as team…

This document provides updated information on the SKI-HI program model which presently serves over 2000 young hearing impaired children in 35 states and Canada. The program focuses on training parents in the skills needed to maximize language stimulation and minimize language deprivation. Among 14 educational and philosophical underpinnings of the…

The booklet describes Project Prepare, a program designed to teach educationally disadvantaged parents adult basic education skills in their own homes and then to show these parents how and what to teach their preschool children. Information is provided on the design and implementation of the projects. Seven specific problems in adult basic…