Guidelines are offered to parents who move and change school districts for their disabled children. She notes the importance of knowing legal rights, keeping current records, and being persistent in securing optimum services. (CL)

Adults can help children with reading disabilities improve comprehension and enjoyment of stories by listening to the child retell the story s/he has just heard. (CL)

Theme: Understanding the sequence and variability in the individual development of self-care skills enables caregivers to encourage children to attempt activities while not expecting unrealistic accomplishments.

This book explores the important role of parents and the extended family in the lives of babies and young children. It complements and extends the DfES Birth to Three Matters framework, which supports practitioners in working with children aged birth to three, and builds on the information provided in the companion book "Birth to Three Matters:…

Family support is key to healthy adolescence. A family enables children to experience attachment, belonging, competence, and self-esteem, and at the same time allows them to experience success and failure, adventure and retreat, independence and interdependence. For families who have teens with disabilities, adolescence can be especially…

Parents are the key to improving youth sports for everyone. This self-test is provided to see if they are doing all they can to keep their children active in sports and receiving the benefits of sports participation. A list of resources is included.

The results of this study indicate that no apparent relationship existed between a parent's knowledge of health and that of his offspring. (Author)

Described is a three dimensional approach to helping parents of learning disabled children which includes educative counseling, interpretive counseling, and habilitative involvement of parents. (KW)

Methods are suggested to parents to help their deaf child overcome difficulty in grasping the meaning or understanding the operation of many common objects and procedures in the world about him. Parents are recommended to encourage their child's questions and help him observe, learn to generalize, and develop his imagination. (KW)

Sixth in a series of articles based on Parent Teacher Conferences held between 1966-69 in the Lower Department of Junior High School 47, New York City's Public School for the Deaf. The article suggests how parents of deaf children can assist their child in his process of learning to lipread. (Author/KW)

Foster mothers of children placed in family care from a state hospital for the mentally retarded were provided with individualized developmental plans with specific time-related objectives. The progress of the children was more rapid than that of controls and the foster mothers interest and pride in being family caretakers increased. (Author/AJ)

The data from this study shows that fathers spend little time vocalizing to their infants and that the number of interactions varies by time of day, age and sex of infant and the kind of activity occurring during the interaction. (Author/WY)

The smoking behavior and family stability of 251 undergraduate men and women and their parents were studied. The results support the identification interpretation of the father/son smoking pattern. The variable of family intactness was a relevant moderator of the parent/son smoking pattern. The mother and daughter smoking patterns remained…

There are a number of ways parents can help their child gain entrance into a gifted program: completing and becoming familiar with various rating forms; understanding that teachers may be inaccurate in creativity assessments; and claiming discrimination based on the child's age or incompatibility with the teacher. (CL)