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Peer reviewedBridgemen, Helen M. – Catalyst for Change, 1976
Describes an experimental Perceptual Motor Skills Program being used in Florissant, Missouri, for students in grades K-1. (JG)
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Innovation, Experimental Programs, Perceptual Motor Coordination
Download full textKrippner, Stanley – 1974
This paper is a discussion of The Churchill School, founded in 1972 as an alternative approach to serving the educational needs of children diagnosed as hyperactive, hyperkinetic, brain damaged, neurologically impaired, or suffering from minimal brain dysfunction. The school has a student body of 65, ranging between 6 and 13 years of age. The…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Drug Therapy, Elementary Education, Experimental Programs
Monmouth County Dept. of Education, Freehold, NJ. – 1965
Research indicates the existence of a relationship between the level of visual perceptual skills in the first grade and academic success in later grades. Special visual-motor training was given to some 275 primary school children with a like number of children acting as a control group. The control group was one grade ahead of the experimental…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Experimental Programs
Furner, Beatrice A. – Elem Engl, 1970
Third and final article in a series by the author; see also "Elementary English, vol. 46, no. 7 (November 1969), 886-94 and vol. 46, no. 8 (December 1969), 1021-30. (RD)
Descriptors: Experimental Programs, Handwriting Instruction, Handwriting Skills, Perceptual Motor Learning
BARSCH, RAY H. – 1965
A PHYSIOLOGICAL APPROACH TO THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL LEARNING DIFFICULTIES WAS THE BASIS OF AN EXPERIMENTAL CURRICULUM. THE LEARNER WAS SEEN AS A SPACIALLY ORIENTED BEING WITH A PHYSIOLOGICAL MAKEUP DESIGNED TO TRAVEL THROUGH "EDUCATIONAL SPACE," PROCESSING INFORMATION TO HIS PROGRESSIVE ADVANTAGE. EIGHT CONSTRUCTS SERVED…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Experimental Programs, Handicapped Children, Learning Problems
McConnell, Freeman – 1969
A program for approximately 100 2- to 5-year-old culturally deprived Nashville, Tennessee, children was conducted in two community day-care centers. The children received instruction in groups of six or seven on a half-day basis for 5 days a week. Both language input and output were the focus of instruction, which was carried out through…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged, Experimental Programs
Kannegieter, Ruthan Brinkerhoff – 1968
This study involved fifty-eight 3-year-olds. It sought to determine whether the preschoolers could learn to discriminate visually the critical elements of shape through a program of perceptual-motor training, transfer such knowledge to similar but different shapes, and then resist the process of forgetting the critical elements. The children were…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Discrimination Learning, Doctoral Dissertations
Wang, Margaret C.; And Others – 1974
This book presents the evaluation of a Primary Education Project (PEP) which focused on the development and evaluation of a model of individualized education for young children. The socioeconomic background of the participating students (primarily economically disadvantaged children attending an inner-city school) is described. The PEP 1969-1970…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classification, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Research
McGilligan, Robert P. – 1970
The School District of Jennings, Missouri, undertook a study of the effectiveness of grouping on academic achievement in kindergarten. It was hypothesized that grouping children according to developmental lags would be beneficial to the subjects in terms of their academic and personal development; that the curricula would be partially responsible…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Auditory Discrimination, Cognitive Development, Demography
KERSHNER, JOHN R. – 1967
THIS STUDY USED TWO INTACT CLASSES OF PUBLIC SCHOOL TRAINABLE MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN TO STUDY THE EFFECTS OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES DERIVED FROM THE DOMAN-DELACATO THEORY OF PHYSICAL AND INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT. THE EXPERIMENTAL GROUP CONSISTED OF SEVEN MALES AND SIX FEMALES FROM AGE 8 TO 18 AND THE CONTROL GROUP CONSISTED OF 10 MALES AND SIX…
Descriptors: Children, Exceptional Child Research, Experimental Programs, Intellectual Development
Sapir, Selma G. – 1967
Fifty-four kindergarten children were screened with the Sapir Developmental Scale to highlight deficiencies in bodily schema, perceptual motor skills, and language development, and were matched in groups of three by score, chronological age, and sex with one of the three acting as control. Three first grade classes were organized as follows: one…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Auditory Perception, Discrimination Learning, Exceptional Child Research
