This approach to preschool education of the disadvantaged uses a teacher training program which was developed only after each component of the program had been empirically tested. Teachers were retrained through course work and workshops to teach disadvantaged preschool children. These teachers then taught mothers and older siblings of…

This study's purpose was to develop and evaluate programs based on psycholinguistic theory for rural black disadvantaged 4-year-olds. The treatment conditions, administered in mobile labs, were (1) a 9-month general enrichment curriculum, GE (N=8 comparatively advantaged white children), (2) a 3-month structured Peabody curriculum, P3 (N=8…

This study investigated the effects of a program of mother-child interaction using children's books on the verbal skills of culturally disadvantaged 3-year-olds. A total of 47 subjects were involved in the study, with white and black children, males and females equally represented in experimental, placebo and control groups. After only three…