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Goehl, Karen Curtice; Leffers, Pam – 1979
Home programs for young handicapped children have the potential for enhancing the partnership between home and school. In an effective home program the parent is viewed as the person most qualified to facilitate the child's development. This paper focuses on the philosophy of home programming and details some useful strategies which can be used by…
Descriptors: Disabilities, High Risk Persons, Home Programs, Infants
Flores, Joe G., Jr. – 1987
The first annual report of the Disabled Children's Project, a 2-year project in Texas, provides information on project background, goal and objectives, approach, operations and accomplishments, and issues and problems. The project was designed to (1) provide training and support services to birth parents and foster parents of disabled infants and…
Descriptors: Children, Curriculum Development, Delivery Systems, Disabilities
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
Kisker, Ellen Eliason; Love, John M.; Raikes, Helen; Boller, Kimberly; Paulsell, Diane; Rosenberg, Linda; Coolahan, Kathleen; Berlin, Lisa J. – 1999
Early Head Start (EHS) is a comprehensive, two-generation program providing intensive services from before birth to age 3 to promote improved outcomes in children's development, family development, staff development, and community development. The second of a 3-volume series designed to share the experiences of the 17 EHS programs participating in…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Change Strategies, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Delivery Systems
Campbell, Sally – Zero to Three (J), 2005
Healthy Families America is a national, voluntary, home visiting program model designed to help expectant and new parents get their children off to a safe and healthy start. Since 1992, it has been successfully replicated in over 440 communities in the U.S. and Canada. This article describes the program's reflective, relationship-based model and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Rearing, Caregivers, Home Programs
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Joffee, E. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1988
A home-based orientation and mobility program was developed for blind/visually impaired infants and toddlers. Three stages in functional mobility were identified focusing on the development of gross motor skills, related conceptual activities, auditory awareness, orientation skills, and mobility skills. The program included parent education and a…
Descriptors: Blindness, Child Development, Delivery Systems, Developmental Stages
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1991
This report of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources favorably recommends that Senate Bill 1106, Amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, be passed by the Senate. Noted are the legislation's purposes: to help States facing fiscal crises stay in the Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities program (Part H); to reward those…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Compliance (Legal), Costs, Delivery Systems
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Golas, Julianna C.; Horm, Diane; Caruso, David A. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2006
Early Head Start services are typically offered through home- or center-based delivery models. A formative evaluation of an example of each service delivery model was conducted. The purpose was to examine the issues involved in the implementation of these two service delivery models relative to the content of services, intensity of services,…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Program Implementation, Formative Evaluation, Family Involvement
Utah State Univ., Logan. Dept. of Communicative Disorders. – 1996
This final report presents the outcomes of Project INSITE, a family-centered home intervention model designed to provide training to early intervention/childhood professionals working with infants and young children with multidisability sensory impairments and their families. In the INSITE model, an early intervention professional visits the home…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Deaf Blind, Delivery Systems