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Download full textHolmes, Venita R. – Houston Independent School District, 2018
HIPPY [Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters] was designed to assist parents from disadvantaged backgrounds with educational opportunities to prepare their children for school. HIPPY targeted children in 70 Houston Independent School District (HISD) elementary schools during the 2017-2018 academic year. This figure reflects an…
Descriptors: Home Instruction, Parent Participation, Home Visits, Preschool Children
Houston Independent School District, 2017
This report contains the 2016-2017 evaluation on the Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY)/Home Visiting Grant program. HIPPY is a school readiness program that helps parents prepare their preschool children for academic success. A total of 762 children ages 3 to 5 and their parents participated in the Houston Independent…
Descriptors: Home Instruction, Parent Participation, School Readiness, Preschool Children
Houston Independent School District, 2016
This report provides a summary of the Home Instruction of Parents with Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) program activities and its effectiveness for Houston Independent School District (HISD) student participants. A total of 637 three to five-year children, along with their parents, participated in the HISD HIPPY program during the 2015-2016 academic…
Descriptors: Home Instruction, Preschool Children, Home Visits, Parent Participation
Direct linkNievar, M. Angela; Jacobson, Arminta; Chen, Qi; Johnson, Ursula; Dier, Shannon – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2011
This study investigated effects of Home Instruction of Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY), a paraprofessional home visiting program, on parents and children. The program site served low-income, Spanish-speaking families. On average, mothers were 31 years old (SD = 4.78) and children were 3 or 4 years old (M = 3.92, SD = 0.92). Participants (n…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement, Minority Group Children, Family Environment
Rusalem, Herbert – Rehabilitation Literature, 1971
Descriptors: Disabilities, Home Instruction, Home Visits, Homebound
Council for Exceptional Children, Reston, VA. Information Center on Exceptional Children. – 1972
The selected bibliography on homebound or hospitalized children contains approximately 45 abstracts with indexing information explained to be drawn from the computer file of abstracts representing the Council for Exceptional Children Information Center's complete holdings as of August, 1972. Abstracts are said to be chosen using the criteria of…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Exceptional Child Education, Handicapped Children
Astuto, Jennifer; Allen, LaRue – Society for Research in Child Development, 2009
More than 10 million children from birth through age six in the US live in low-income families. Although large investments in early childhood intervention programs are evident, is the field fully exploiting its potential to address the diverse needs of children and families? One means of addressing this question is to focus on the efficacy of…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Low Income Groups, Models, Federal Legislation
Berglund, Jean B.; And Others – 1973
Presented are the guidelines of an Alaskan educational program for native and nonnative rural families of preschool hearing impaired children. The program is described as involving initial identification of the handicapped child, residence for 1 week by the family (at no cost) in a demonstration home in Anchorage at which time parents are…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Eskimos, Exceptional Child Education, Hearing Impairments
Webberley, Jill – Forum for the Discussion of New Trends in Education, 1981
This article describes the Milton Keynes Home-School Link project, which provides home instruction for parents with preschoolers. Funded by the Manpower Services Commission, the project provides short-term employment for out-of-work teachers, who serve as home visitors, and unemployed young people, who act as aides. (SJL)
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Family School Relationship, Home Instruction, Home Visits
Swayze, Marian C. – Viewpoints, 1975
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Family Life, Field Experience Programs, Home Instruction
Bailey, Douglas B.; Dowling, William D. – 1980
A tutorial program of family life education has been developed for use in the homes of parents who are clients of Franklin County Children Services (FCCS) in Columbus, Ohio. The subject matter of the Parent Tutorial Curriculum (PTC) is divided into five content areas: self esteem (2 modules), communications (9), child rearing (4), homemaking (9),…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Child Neglect, Curriculum Development, Family Life Education
Thorburn, Marigold J. – Assignment Children, 1981
One of the major goals of the Jamaican Early Stimulation Project is to develop a low cost model for providing early identification of disability and intervention services. Journal availability: see EC 133 861. (Author)
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Disability Identification
Paris, Ruth; Dubus, Nicole – Family Relations, 2005
Fifteen at-risk new mothers participating in a volunteer home-visiting program were interviewed about their experiences with these home-visitors and their relationships with close family and friends after their babies were born. Results of the qualitative analysis, viewed through the lens of Relational Cultural Theory (RCT), detail the social…
Descriptors: Social Isolation, Emotional Development, Mothers, Infants
Peer reviewedBurkett, Charles W. – Journal of Educational Research, 1982
Children in a home-based early childhood education program who received weekly visits did not learn more than children visited every two weeks. Both home instruction programs did improve children's achievement, however, and this study suggests that, if visits occur every two weeks, money can be saved at no cost to learning. (PP)
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Cost Effectiveness, Disadvantaged Environment, Early Childhood Education
Peters, Donald L.; And Others – 1987
This study analyzed the critical features of three delivery modes for Head Start services in order to: (1) compare the effects of different delivery modes on the immediate outcomes for children and parents; and (2) explore the pattern of effects both within and across modes to ascertain how the process works. The first mode represented the most…
Descriptors: Family School Relationship, Home Instruction, Home Programs, Home Visits
