The Exercises to Encourage Development (EXTEND) Program for developmentally delayed students is described and evaluation results presented. Designed to provide attention to the child with developmental lags in the areas of motor skills, perceptual sensations, or expressive-receptive language, the program attempts to prevent potential academic…

THE RECRUITMENT, SELECTION, ORIENTATION, AND EFFECTIVE USE OF VOLUNTEERS IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS ARE DISCUSSED. VOLUNTEERS WITH PROFESSIONAL SKILLS CAN SERVE AS PHYSICIANS, NURSES, TEACHERS, AND SOCIAL WORKERS. LAY VOLUNTEERS CAN RELIEVE REGULAR STAFF MEMBERS OF ROUTINE DUTIES AND INCREASE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICE. VOLUNTEERS…

THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS INITIAL REPORT OF A FOUR-YEAR PROJECT WERE (1) TO DEMONSTRATE A METHOD FOR THE PREDICTION AND PREVENTION OF LEARNING DISABILITIES, (2) TO FOSTER UNDERSTANDING OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT AMONG TEACHERS, PARENTS, AND PHYSICIANS. SUBJECTS WERE THE 3 1/2 TO 5 1/2 YEAR OLD CHILDREN OF AN ENTIRE SCHOOL DISTRICT. RESEARCHERS WERE…

THE OCCUPATIONAL STATUS OF YOUNG MEN AND CONDITIONS AFFECTING THEIR AMBITIONS AND FULFILLMENT WERE REPORTED. A SAMPLE OF 4,186 MEN WERE LOCATED FOR A FOLLOWUP 7 YEARS AFTER HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION. THE PARENTS WERE ASKED TO REPORT CURRENT OCCUPATION FOR THEIR SONS, EDUCATION FOLLOWING HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION, MARITAL STATUS, AND MILITARY STATUS. THE…

The Re-ED experience of the Positive Education Program (PEP) in Cleveland, Ohio, utilizes educational, mental health, social service, and juvenile justice resources to provide a community based day treatment program for disturbed children and adolescents. Program components include team/counselor team staffing of classrooms, the Parents Training…

Described is a model parent education program designed to provide parents of handicapped children with knowledge and technical skills to be used at home to reinforce children's skills learned in the classroom. The article outlines the organizational procedures, content, and evaluation techniques to conduct the 5-week minicourse. (Author/SBH)

This dissertation explores the participation of 160 black mothers in the educational sector to determine if urban mothers who are active participants in their children's schools feel less alienated than mothers who are less active or inactive. Alienation was measured in terms of three components: subjective alienation, the degree of school…

This research was based on a counseling model of prevention through attempts to influence the behaviors of significant adults. Group counseling was offered to parents of first-, seventh-, and ninth-grade children during the first year of the project. During the second year group meetings for teachers were conducted. Previous monographs have…

The Multiple Model Preschool Program (MMPP) is a 3-year research and demonstration project which stresses the prevention of deficits keeping many children from obtaining optimal development and achieving academic success. The MMPP incorporates three emphases: 1) the inclusion and meaningful involvement of parents; the establishment of strong…

The Parent Teachers Association (PTA) has had a long interest in physical education. At the convention at which the PTA was founded, a major address was presented on the subject of "physical culture." After 80 years, the PTA is still concerned with the physical as well as mental education of children. A major concern is with the…

This survey examines how the educational consumers (students) perceive the school experience and characterizes the various experiences offered by each of four different alternative schools (K-6) as well as presenting a composite picture of student attitudes. Each of the students in the study group (20% of each age group) was interviewed by a…

The joint training of professionals and non-professionals to work together as a team has received heavy emphasis in two projects: (1) Project ENABLE (Education for Neighborhood Action for Better Living Environment), and (2) the Child Study Association, Project Head Start Training Program for Parent Participation. The objectives in working with…

To study the differences in teachers' time allocations to various functions when volunteers were and were not present, as well as the differences in the amount of adult time spent with individual pupils in these sessions, an experimental design was employed that included a taxonomy of classroom functions based both on a theoretical framework and…

The "pioneers" of the alternative school movement (schools that have now been in existence from two to five years) have experienced many difficulties in putting their ideas into practice. This report contains a discussion of a conference that focused on the difficulties that have been encountered in involving students, staff, and parents in…

This pamphlet is concerned with the education that the poor and black receive from public schools. In particular, it looks at the practices of the Washington, D.C. public schools and concludes that the system values the education of its middle-class children more highly than the education of the poor. Whatever the indices--money spent, textbooks…