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Weber, Kathleen M. – 1991
A program was developed for six kindergarten students identified as at risk because of developmental delays. The program involved an hour of instruction after the regular school day, 2 days a weeks for a 10-week period, with a curriculum focusing on visual, auditory, and motor development. Specific skill areas included visual motor coordination,…
Descriptors: After School Education, Auditory Training, Early Intervention, High Risk Students
Anderson, Lorraine Kvistberg; Thomas, Ruth G. – 1992
A study field tested and evaluated an instructional approach to parent education that tried, from a developmental perspective, to help parents become aware of their parenting practices. A program was developed to support parents in becoming aware of personal themes and actions that influenced the nature of parent-child interaction and in becoming…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Child Rearing, Developmental Programs
Grace, Janet; Suci, George J. – 1981
A study is undertaken to determine whether the nonlinguistic priority of the agent of an action facilitates the comprehension of word reference. The subjects were twelve male and twelve female infants at the one word stage of language production. The children were presented with three nonsense names (presented as part of a narration of a filmed…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Case (Grammar), Child Language, Concept Formation
Madeja, Stanley S.; Onuska, Sheila – 1977
This document describes the aesthetic education curriculum developed by the Aesthetic Education Program (AEP) of the Central Midwestern Regional Educational Lab. Developed for elementary grades, the curriculum is intended to enhance aesthetic perception, teach the arts, create a better living environment, promote general education, and use the…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Education, Case Studies, Creative Development
Coleman, Joyce H. – 1978
This Child Development Associate (CDA) training module, the seventh in a series of 16, provides an introduction to cognitive development in young children for bilingual/bicultural preschool teacher trainees. Perceptual skills (visual, figure-ground, part-whole, spatial, auditory and tactile discrimination) and cognitive processes and concepts…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Teachers, Check Lists, Child Caregivers
University City School District, MO. – 1966
THIS IS A REPORT OF THE RESPONSES OF 480 PROFESSIONALS TO A QUESTIONNAIRE ABOUT THEIR BELIEFS ABOUT EDUCATION AS RELATED TO NEWER GOALS IN EDUCATION. IT INDICATES A STRONG COMMITMENT TO THE NEWER GOALS. (DD)
Descriptors: Administrators, Attitudes, Classification, Cognitive Processes
Fallone, Nino – 1978
This manual in Italian provides a basic theory of reading and writing instruction for kindergarten and first grade teachers working in a bilingual setting. Reading and writing are seen as instruments of communication incorporating psychomotor, perceptual, conceptual, and logical skills. The manual covers the following areas: (1) the development of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills, Educational Theories
Ray, Henry W. – 1966
A project was initiated in the Centennial School District, Warminster, Pennsylvania, to improve response-eliciting educational materials. Efforts were concentrated on developing environmental awareness, imagination, figure and ground discrimination, memory training, visual motor skills, and picture interpretation. Classes of primary and…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Creativity, Discovery Learning, Discovery Processes
Union Township Board of Education, NJ. – 1968
Designed as a perceptual enrichment program for all kindergarten children, the project also emphasizes intensive perceptual training for children manifesting dificiency in this area of development. Screening was done of 869 pre-kindergarten children; those scoring in the lowest 5% on any one or more of the subtests or falling in the lowest 10% of…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Identification, Inservice Teacher Education, Kindergarten Children
Ben-Zeev, Sandra – 1977
A previous study found that middle-class Hebrew-English bilingual children were characterized by distinctive perceptual strategies and more advanced processing in certain verbal tasks, as compared to similar monolinguals. The present study tested whether similar strategies and response patterns will appear when the children involved are from…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Child Language
ERIC Clearinghouse on Handicapped and Gifted Children, Reston, VA. – 1975
The annotated bibliography on early childhood intervention-general theory and programs for handicapped children contains approximately 100 abstracts and associated indexing information for documents published from 1968 to 1974 and selected from the computer files of the Council for Exceptional Children's Information Services and the Education…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Behavior Change, Bibliographies, Developmental Disabilities
San Mateo County Board of Education, Redwood City, CA. – 1971
The contents of this guide are appropriate for students in grades four, five, and six who are reading about a year below grade level and whose corrective reading needs can be met by the classroom teacher. Three main instructional concerns--assessing oral language proficiency, locating an instructional reading level, and pinpointing phonetic…
Descriptors: Auditory Training, Curriculum Guides, Elementary Education, Grade 4
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Shapiro, Edward S.; Heick, Patrick F. – Psychology in the Schools, 2004
The current study examined the assessment strategies school psychologists used in their everyday assessment routine in the evaluation of students referred for social/behavioral/emotional problems. A stratified, random, national sample of 1,000 members of the National Association of School Psychologists were sent surveys; 667 completed surveys were…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Behavior Rating Scales, Emotional Problems, School Psychologists
Pliskin, Ellen, Ed. – 1988
This book presents lesson plans, developed by special education teachers and graduate students, which use art across the special education curriculum. Preliminary information offers general guidelines for using the lessons and describes characteristics of students with disabilities, with emphasis on students with emotional disturbances. The…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Art Education, Behavioral Objectives, Disabilities
Grant, D. R. B.; And Others – 1983
This monograph describes the developmental context of disadvantaged children in the English-speaking Caribbean. Reported in nontechnical language are the frequencies of responses on a parent interview schedule made by a sample of heads of households with children 0 to 3 years of age. Section 1, part 1 presents information on type of family union,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attachment Behavior, Child Rearing, Developing Nations
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