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Download full textToso, Blaire Willson, Ed. – Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy, 2013
The National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL) presents, alongside the Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy at Penn State University, these proceedings from the research strand at the 22nd National Conference on Family Literacy. Through these sessions, NCFL's conference continues to provide the latest research in family education…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Parent Participation, Early Intervention, Early Childhood Education
Anderson, Joan, Ed.; Black, Talbot, Ed. – 1983
The monograph is intended to help administrators clarify issues regarding mainstreaming in preschool education. Four chapters are presented as outgrowths of a workshop on preschool mainstreaming. The first, "Fundamental Issues in Preschool Mainstreaming," by M. Guralnick, focuses on four issues: (1) understanding the purposes of…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Mainstreaming, Parent Role, Preschool Education
Doherty, Robert E., Ed. – 1979
This book is a collection of eight speeches given at a 1978 symposium dealing with citizen participation in the collective bargaining process in public schools. The theme of the papers is public access to and influence on the bargaining process. Five of the eight speeches are followed by a discussion by symposium participants. Some of the topics…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Collective Bargaining, Community Involvement, Parent Participation
National Cancer Inst. (NIH), Bethesda, MD. – 1980
Twenty presentations from a 1978 conference for parents of children with cancer focus on the teenager and cancer, long term survival of children, the parents and treatment, and practical problems involved. The following papers and authors are represented: "The Role of the Patient Family" (Clark, Fox-Kolenda); "How the Child Perceives Illness and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cancer, Emotional Adjustment, Ethics
Hawaii Univ., Honolulu. School of Public Health. – 1980
The monograph presents guidelines for early intervention services for handicapped infants and their families. Guidelines are the result of a 1980 conference on health issues in early identification programs. Three state of the art papers are included: "Infancy, What We Know and What We Need to Know as a Basis for Intervention" by A. Korner; "Child…
Descriptors: Child Development, Disabilities, Health, Infants
Arshack, Susan, Ed. – 1977
The document presents the proceedings of the conference on "Child Abuse: Where Do We Go From Here?" held at the Children's Hospital National Medical Center in 1977. Six chapters focus on corporal punishment, etiology of child abuse, sex abuse, treatment modalities, court reform, and parental rights and civil liberties. Among the entries are the…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Advocacy, Civil Liberties, Conference Reports
Nalley, Donna – 1999
These proceedings of the conference "Creating a Continuum of Excellence: A U.S. Blue Ribbon Schools of Excellence Conference," produced by SERVE in collaboration with Nova Southeastern University was held in Coral Gables, Florida, 1999. It lists keynote speakers, action planning meetings, think tanks, and titles of exemplary practice sessions, as…
Descriptors: Community Action, Cooperation, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Espinoza, Renato – Parent-Involvement Update, 1986
Proceedings of a regional Parent Involvement Network teleconference in which nine citites in the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory's (SEDL) five-state region (Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma) plus Lincoln, Nebraska, participated are highlighted in this summary report. Participants from each state reported on…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Information Networks, Networks, Parent Participation
Tamir, D., Ed.; And Others – 1984
This up-to-date and comprehensive compendium reflects the state of professional understanding, research, and experience in the field of intervention in child development. The book is intended to be of use to pediatricians, psychiatrists, neurologists, child psychologists, social workers, nurses, occupational therapists, early childhood educators,…
Descriptors: Child Development, Community Programs, Diagnostic Tests, High Risk Persons
Clark, Dick – Congressional Program, 1995
This Conference focused on policy options for promoting the well-being of children and families in the United States. These conference proceedings present a range of strategies that have proven effective in building parental competence and providing the support needed to enable families to survive and function adequately. The keynote address,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Rearing, Early Parenthood, Family Programs
Koerber, Pat, Ed. – 1980
The first National Conference for Parents of the Handicapped (Indianapolis, Indiana, 1980) is summarized. Contents of 11 workshop presentations are described, including parents' roles as advocates, parental concerns, the influence of diet on behavior, genetics, in home respite care, legal issues, and parent coalitions and organizations. An…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Legal Problems
Seittelman, Elizabeth E., Ed. – 1973
This booklet reports the proceedings of a conference of the Queens Association for the Education of the Exceptionally Gifted Child, Inc., held on 3 March 1973 in conjunction with the New York State Education Department and York College of the City University of New York. Five panel discussions are abstracted: "Identifying the Gifted and Developing…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Academically Gifted, Conference Reports, Educational Finance
Orton, Christine – 1986
The report presents major presentations given at a 1-day conference on integration of the handicapped in British schools attended by parents, teachers, social workers, psychologists, and education officers. In the first presentation, M. Vaughan presents philosophical and practical arguments which support eliminating the segregation of children…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. Div. of Compensatory, Urban, and Supplementary Programs. – 1981
Five papers summarizing presentations made at the Fourth Annual Early Childhood Education Conference are included in this report. The first presentation, by Evangeline Ward, discusses cooperation, collaboration, change, and advocacy in the context of early childhood education. In the second presentation, Irving Lazar identifies social trends…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Early Childhood Education, Educational Change, Educational Cooperation
Bane, Mary Jo; And Others – 1980
The present and future of the American family are discussed in a collection of four papers. The first paper, by Mary Jo Bane, identifies trends in demographic and structural features of families, including fertility rates, marriage trends, divorce rates, household headship rates, and the proportion of women in the labor force. Societies' changing…
Descriptors: Children, Demography, Family Relationship, Family (Sociological Unit)
