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Figgures, Cleo – 1980
The Child Care Program was evaluated in terms of developmental activities, parent involvement, staff development, and supportive services. Results from the Developmental Behavior Checklist (DBC) indicated that the Child Care Program's performance was better than the average of the other programs in language, for all age groups. Also indicated was…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Basic Skills, Child Development Centers, Cognitive Development
Download full textIllinois State Office of Education, Springfield. – 1974
Intended for parents of physically handicapped children, the booklet provides information on activities for children 3 to 6 years old. The document is divided into five sections: learning to move (which includes sitting at tables, being held and carried, and touching); self care skills (such as self-feeding, dressing, and toileting); learning to…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education, Language Acquisition
Shanks, Robb L. – 1974
A set of minimum physical education skill objectives, basic motor performances all elementary and secondary school children should be capable of demonstrating are presented in the form of specific drill instructions. Divided into grade levels for purposes of assessment, the exercises are intended to be ungraded activities. The rationale for this…
Descriptors: Adapted Physical Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Exercise (Physiology), Motor Development
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1969
The Perry Preschool Project assessed longitudinal effects of a 2-year program consisting of a daily 3-hour cognitively oriented nursery, a weekly 90-minute home visit, and less frequent group meetings of the pupils' parents. Subjects consisted of 3- and 4-year-old Negro disadvantaged and functionally retarded children, whose pretest scores on the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Compensatory Education, Developmental Tasks
Kline, Judy – 1977
This guide for persons working with young children with gross motor delays is designed to be used in the assessment of gross motor abilities, the detection and identification of delays and the planning and implementation of appropriate Individual Activity Plans (IAP) for correcting the delays. Observation guidelines in the form of questions (Can…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Guides, Individual Activities, Individual Needs
Wisconsin Univ., Madison. Trace Center. – 1976
The report details the results of a research and development program on communication aids for the education of the non-vocal severely handicapped. Much of the information in the report was prepared so that it could stand alone, and is in the form of individual papers, reports, and a sourcebook. The documents are divided into three sections: (1)…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Communication Aids (for Disabled), Communication Skills, Educational Media
Anselmo, Sandra; Petersen, Jane Dunlap – 1978
This manual designed for caregivers describes the practices and activity plans of the infant-toddler group at the University of Iowa Early Childhood Education Center. Emphasis is placed on working with children between 12 and 36 months of age. The manual is divided into five main sections. Section 1 explains the composition of the infant-toddler…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Guides
Nesbitt, John A., Ed.; Howard, Gordon K., Ed. – 1974
Presented are papers and proceedings of the National Institute on Program Development and Training in Recreation for Deaf-Blind Children, Youth and Adults (Iowa, 1974). Chapters 1-3 summarize institute participants' views on topics such as normalization, needs, and advocacy for the deaf-blind (DB); report a consumer's, a parent's, a rehabilitation…
Descriptors: Administration, Child Advocacy, Conference Reports, Deaf Blind
Bauer, Elinor L. – 1973
This paper suggests a variety of learning experiences for parents to provide for their young children from birth to age 5. The introduction stresses the need for many kinds of verbal communication between parents and child and presents a discussion of crying behaviors and the importance of reading to children. Talking and listening activities are…
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education, Emotional Development
Yawkey, Thomas D.; Silvern, Steven B. – 1974
This paper presents an outline of kindergarten goals for the seventies along with specific suggestions for supporting classroom activities. The kindergarten goals are divided into four developmental areas: (1) Cognitive or Intellectual Development (with emphasis on concept development, or "content skills" and mastery or "process skills"); (2)…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, Developmental Programs, Educational Assessment
Rodman, Joan I. – 1973
The development of 10 preschool children who attended the Southeast Kansas Demonstration Child Development Center was compared with the development of 10 preschool children who did not attend a child care center to ascertain the value of the center's program. Both groups were tested with the Denver Developmental Screening Test at the beginning and…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Development Centers, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
Collins, Michael T.; Rudolph, James M. – 1975
Presented is a manual for program assessment of the deaf-blind child's development. In the introduction, it is stressed that the manual is not intended to be a curriculum guide and that scale items are not designed to replace the objectives and activities of the child's curriculum. Assessment checklists are color-coded according to the following…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Deaf Blind
Baud, Hank, Ed.; Garrett, Jeff, Ed. – 1975
Presented are five papers on multidimensional teaching models presented at a workshop for professionals serving deaf-blind children. In "Interpretation of Visual Reports", M. Efron discusses procedures for improving visual diagnosis and provides a questionnaire format for an educationally oriented vision report. M. Marshall, in her paper entitled…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Deaf Blind, Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Education
Farnsworth, Linda L.; And Others – 1975
A total of 211 kindergarten children, aged 63 to 81 months, were classified into two groups according to the risk of failure in first grade predicted for them on the basis of their performance on the Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT) and the Draw a Person (DAP) test. According to prediction, Group I children without intervention would probably…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Diagnosis, Grade 1, Intellectual Development
Strevens, Peter – 1972
Teaching pronunciation is more like gymnastics than linguistics because it involves converting a series of mental processes into motor activity. Many variables contribute to the facility with which a student will learn pronunciation, but age causes the greatest variation in standards of pronunciation learning between individuals. Though increased…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Auditory Discrimination, English (Second Language), Language Instruction
