Research supported by a grant from the Defense Research Board of Canada. (DS)

This paper reviews the evolution and implementation of the "Sesame Street" curriculum relating to the development of language and prereading skills. The first section gives a brief history of the Children's Television Workshop, describes the operational model followed by the Workshop in carrying out its initial experiment, and suggests…

Presented is the Callier-Azusa Scale designed to aid in the assessment of deaf-blind and multihandicapped children in the areas of motor development, perceptual abilities, daily living skills, language development, and socialization. The scale is said to be predicated on the assumption that given the appropriate environment all children follow the…

Presented is a language development program consisting of 30 mini-units to be used as the first formal daily activity with 5-year-old, educable, developmentally handicapped or environmentally disadvantaged children. It is explained that the required technique includes teacher questioning of one child, an elicited complete sentence response from…

This monograph presents the module on auditory perception and its relationship to language development used in the Early Childhood-Special Education Teacher Preparation Program at the University of Virginia. The ontogeny for auditory perceptual skills, from the first through the 60th month, and auditory perceptual skill outcomes for the young…

Located in 26 counties, the Florida Migratory Child Compensatory Program enrolls preschool children ages three, four, and five. Since many of these children travel with their parents from county to county, a need for a consistent curriculum emphasis developed. Therefore, using the National Migrant Goals, the Florida Migrant Early Childhood…