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American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1969
This preschool program concentrated on language development, self-concept, perception, and concept formation. Also, a vertically organized program of reading, math, science, and creative dramatics, along with parent activity, inservice training, and dissemination, covered prekindergarten through the third grade. Individual and small group work…
Descriptors: Blacks, Compensatory Education, Concept Formation, Educational Games
Bechtel, Leland P. – 1975
Reported are the final 2 years of a program which provided identification and remediation services for 60 potentially dyslexic preschool children and 45 dyslexic elementary grade children. Described for the preschool program are materials and evaluative devices and methods of remediation which stressed development of perceptual motor skills,…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Education
South Central Region Educational Lab. Corp., Little Rock, AR. – 1969
This manual evaluates and describes an educational day care model after 1 year of development. The model was designed for 3- and 5-year-old disadvantaged youngsters who exhibit low scores on intelligence, linguistic, and perceptual tests. Model objectives were based on the following criteria: (1) effectiveness of the curriculum with children, (2)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Compensatory Education, Curriculum Guides, Day Care
Padalino, Jane P. – 1971
A 3-year Title III project in Union, New Jersey involved screening of 869 incoming kindergarten children in 1967 and 840 children in 1968, subsequent identification of children's perceptual difficulties, and remediation. The children were screened in areas of perceptual-motor match, auditory dynamics, associative processes, and gross-motor…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Auditory Perception, Diagnostic Teaching, Exceptional Child Education
Woodhead, Martin, Ed. – 1976
This book describes an experimental compensatory preschool program carried out in England between 1968 and 1973. The program combined a traditional nursery program with a daily 20-minute period focusing on specific language and perceptual activities. Experimental and control subjects, 237 in all, were selected from four state supported nursery…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries
Colorado Springs Public Schools, CO. Div. of Special Services.
Described is a 3-year Colorado preschool project for identification of learning disabilities and behavioral characteristics in 3-to-6-year-old children and subsequent remediation through prescriptive teaching and a home program. Considered in the project overview are inservice, intake, and diagnostic procedures; the interdisciplinary approach;…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Developmental Disabilities, Diagnostic Teaching, Exceptional Child Education
Dusewicz, Russell A.; O'Connell, Mary Ann – 1973
The program activities, curriculum, and evaluation of the Pennsylvania Research in Infant Development and Education (PRIDE) Project are described in this report. The project is an educational effort to accelerate the development of children, 12-52 months of age, by providing developmentally enriching experiences in a controlled environment which…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education
Gavzy, Rita – 1974
This report describes in detail a performance objective curriculum designed to help disadvantaged prekindergarten and kindergarten urban children attain the skills required to be at grade level in reading and mathematics and at the national norm in I.Q. by grade 1. The program is designed to systematically develop students' skills in 10 critical…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Case Studies, Compensatory Education, Competency Based Education
Boise City Independent School District, ID. – 1972
Terminally evaluated was a 3-year (1969-1972) Title III Idaho project to develop an auditory perceptual and language development training program involving the screening of 657 children in grades 1 and 2 in four schools and a first grade demonstration class for 192 perceptually handicapped children. Of 346 children identified to have auditory…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Clinical Diagnosis, Diagnostic Teaching, Exceptional Child Education