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Download full textMeyen, Edward L.; And Others – 1968
To assist teachers and administrators in the selection of materials, the Peabody Language Development Kits (PLDK), Levels 1 and 2, are reviewed and evaluated. The PLDK contain 180 daily lessons, teaching manual, and materials for an intensive language training program for mentally retarded and culturally deprived children. Level 1 can be used in…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Education, Instructional Materials, Language Acquisition, Language Instruction
Milwaukee Public Schools, WI. Div. of Curriculum and Instruction. – 1967
The Speech and Language Development Project, funded under ESEA Title I, was designed to improve the verbal skills of economically disadvantaged children in the primary grades in the Milwaukee public schools, and was later expanded to include older (7-13) educable mentally handicapped youth. The 325 participants worked regularly with six speech…
Descriptors: Delayed Speech, Disadvantaged Youth, Mild Mental Retardation, Primary Education
Peer reviewedMilligan, Jerry L.; Potter, Robert E. – Reading World, 1971
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Instructional Materials, Language Acquisition, Language Programs
Parker, Ronald K. – 1969
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…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Curriculum Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Language Ability
Leiss, Robert H., Comp.; Proger, Barton B., Comp. – 1974
During the 1973-74 school year, 230 trainable mentally retarded (TMR) children (ages 7 to 14 years) were exposed to one of two language training conditions: Distar or Peabody. A population of 116 continuees from the first year of the project and 114 new entries were assigned in as random a fashion as possible to either Distar or Peabody. Ss were…
Descriptors: Children, Exceptional Child Research, Intelligence Differences, Language Instruction
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
Dunn, Lloyd M.; And Others – 1967
This Cooperative Language Development Project had two objectives: (1) to provide a modified language program for culturally disadvantaged first graders and (2) to evaluate the effectiveness of the program in terms of academic, intellectual, and linguistic growth. In a 2-year intervention program experimental versions of the Peabody Language…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Control Groups, Disadvantaged, Elementary School Students
