Describes the operation of a parent support service provided by mental health staff and pediatricians who offer free telephone counseling, private consultations, parent education group meetings, and an early intervention program for parents concerned with their children's "negative" behavior. (RH)

Available from: Canadian Association for the Mentally Retarded, Kinsmen National Institute on Mental Retardation Building, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Downsview, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada. Described is Pilot Parents, a support service for parents who have recently learned that their child is mentally handicapped. (GW)

The Parent Guidance Program conducted at the Monnington Early Childhood Development Center (Victoria, Australia) provides guidance, education, and psychological counseling to parents of preschool handicapped children. (SBH)

Describes a communications skills program oriented toward both parents and their children used effectively in the elementary setting (Grades 4-6). (HMV)

The Parent Outreach Program was initiated to link parents who are already raising children with disabilities with new parents of disabled children. (SB)

The article describes a University of South Dakota neurotherapy program, which uses increasingly sophisticated diagnostic information to provide services to brain impaired children within their home and school settings. (DLS)

This article focuses on the treatment necessary for parents guilty of child abuse in order to improve the home situation to enable a child to return to it and to grow safely within it. (Author)

The manual serves as a guide for developing early intervention programs to meet the needs of parents of young handicapped children. An introductory section explains early intervention program goals--be available, listen, work cooperatively, and obtain and give feedback. Chapter 1 describes the Early Intervention Program in terms of program…

A psychologist discusses efforts at the Boston Center for Blind Children to help parents adjust to the demands of their multiply-handicapped, visually-impaired children. The following programs are found to be helpful: an infant home visiting program (see EC 062 470)in which parents develop their role through participating in an individualized…

Values clarification procedures have been used widely in recent years, but little use has been made of them with parents. This paper presents practical values clarification strategies for helping parents clarify values that could influence their childrearing practices. (Author)

Presented are the agency's philosophical orientation and a detailed description of the program. In essence, the group is used as a means of enhancing personal competence in coping with the problems of the parent child relationship. (Author)

Describes supportive group therapy for parents who sought relief from the painful grief experienced after the suicide of their child. Results indicate parents who felt overwhelmed by feelings of shame, guilt, self-doubt, confusion, and isolation found some relief in the universality of their grief and felt accepted and understood. (Author)

The final report documents the progress of Project SAFE (Special Assistance for Early Education of the Handicapped), designed to provide educational services to young children (0 to 5 years) with severe and profound, multiple, hearing, orthopedic, and health impairments. SAFE's activities in the following areas are documented: public…

This pamphlet briefly reports on an experimental program designed to help the underachieving student whose academic and behavioral problems keep him in trouble with school officials. The project is based on the following premises: (1) children who learn basic academic skills and appropriate behaviors will be less vulnerable to future problems; (2)…