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Children with Special Needs in Family Day Care Homes: A Handbook for Family Day Care Home Providers.
Download full textde la Brosse, Beatrice – 1987
The guide offers information to family day care providers who desire to expand their knowledge of early childhood development in order to work with infants and young children with special needs in their day care settings. The first of four chapters answers common questions and concerns of day care providers, describes children with special needs…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Development, Clinical Diagnosis, Developmental Disabilities
de la Brosse, Beatrice – 1988
The Spanish translation of this guide offers information to Spanish-speaking family day care providers who desire to expand their knowledge of early childhood development in order to work with infants and young children with special needs in their day care settings. The first of four chapters answers common questions and concerns of day care…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Development, Clinical Diagnosis, Developmental Disabilities
Klaus, Marshall H., Ed.; Robertson, Martha Oschrin, Ed. – 1982
Provided are summaries of conference presentations discussing aspects of birth, parent/child interaction, and attachment behavior. Material in part I explores perspectives on pregnancy and the perinatal period. Included are discussions of birth in nonindustrial societies, progress in the study of maternal behavior in animals, the physiological…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Animal Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Birth
Schwarz, J. Conrad – 1983
Because many children in Bermuda receive substitute care while their mothers work, several comparative studies were made of effects of maternal and nonmaternal care on children's development. Findings of an initial investigation indicated that 2-year-old children who had been in group-center care differed unfavorably from children in other forms…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Caregivers, Child Rearing, Comparative Analysis
Jacob, Evelyn – 1982
Observations of children's daily activities and interviews with the children's caretakers provided information on preschool children's informal home education in Utuado, Puerto Rico. Three kinds of skills were examined: literacy, chores, and rule-bound games. The unit of analysis was the "Potential Learning Activity" (PLA), a…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Childrens Games, Comparative Analysis, Developed Nations
Hecht, Michael L.; And Others – 1985
A study was conducted to examine the effects of child abuse and neglect on children's nonverbal behaviors. It was hypothesized that abused and neglected children would be less active nonverbally than would control group children. Eight abused and neglected children, aged one through three years, were videotaped interacting with their caregivers in…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Development, Child Abuse, Child Caregivers
Child Resource World Review, 1984
Articles contained in this first issue of the journal "Child Resource World Review" present information from a worldwide network of day care professionals. Specifically, Alice Honig compares child care in different countries. Sherrie K. Akinsanya reports on stressful aspects of early schooling for children in Nigeria. Sue Owen discusses…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Classroom Design, Community Development, Comparative Analysis
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
Texas A and I Univ., Kingsville. – 1978
This volume, the second in a series of seven, contains the four learning modules which focus on the first Child Development Associate (CDA) competency (setting up and maintaining a safe and healthy learning environment) in the performance based curriculum of the Texas A & I Bilingual Bicultural Child Development Associate Training Program. The…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers, Child Caregivers
Taylor, Helen L. Sally – 1979
The efforts of a group of Quinault parents and the Early Childhood Education program of Edmonds College resulted in the establishment of a quality child care program which is parent managed, relevant to the community, and able to meet state requirements for day care. Funded by a Technical Assistance Contract and administered by Alaska Federated…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Board of Education Role, Child Caregivers
Moore, Lin – 1979
Using the Attitudes toward Women Scale (AWS), a comparative study of college student attitudes concerning sex role stereotyping and sex bias was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of a project consisting of inservice training for college faculty and staff, a training program for 375 child care providers (child development students), and a…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Child Caregivers, Child Development, Child Development Specialists
Kruvant, Charito; And Others – 1976
This paper presents a discussion of the impact of the physical design of day care settings on children and adults. Specifically addressed is the question of how the location and design of the facility, the arrangement of indoor and outdoor space, and the organization of the furniture and materials affect the behavior of the adults and children who…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Child Caregivers, Childhood Needs, Classroom Environment
Urban and Rural Systems Associates, San Francisco, CA. – 1977
This draft report on the development and testing of a child care Provider Services Network (PSN) model in Santa Clara County, California, includes a handbook (Manual to Optimize a PSN) designed to provide the State Department of Education and regional or local child care coordinating agencies with information needed to develop PSN optimization…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Child Caregivers, Community Coordination, Community Organizations
Unco, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1973
This report provides some perspectives on existing school-age child care and proposes some alternative school-age care program models which maximize the use of community resources and, thus, reduce potentially high costs. Chapters One and Two examine the current school-age "child care" services both nationally and in Region X (Oregon, Washington…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Caregivers, Community Resources, Cost Effectiveness
Cohen, Monroe D., Ed. – 1976
This publication contains six papers presented at the 1975 Texas Conference on Infancy. The papers present discussions of (1) intervention studies and programs for infants and families, (2) the interaction between infants and their caregivers, (3) mutual adaptation of mother and child, (4) discontinuous mothering, and (5) the emergence of…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Child Care, Child Caregivers, Child Development
