The Living with Asthma Program is designed to teach asthma self-management skills to children (ages 8-12) with asthma and to give their parents the knowledge and behavior modification skills to help their children take over responsibility for managing the condition. Both groups receive training in problem solving and in ways to improve family…

The Living with Asthma Program is designed to teach asthma self-management skills to children (ages 8-12) with asthma and to give their parents the knowledge and behavior modification skills to help their children take over responsibility for managing the condition. Both groups receive training in problem solving and in ways to improve family…

The issue's major feature, on physical and sexual abuse of handicapped children, focuses on education and adult awareness of the problem. It has been well documented that children with handicaps are especially vulnerable to abuse. Parents or other adults who believe that abuse has occurred should first write down exactly what the child has told…

Practical advice for parents of handicapped children is the focus of this issue on self-care skills including self-feeding, dressing, and personal hygiene. Ten initial tips for teaching skills to children include constant repetition, modeling, and keeping verbal instruction to a minimum. The section on self-feeding addresses the topics of…

This practicum was designed in response to a lack of parental involvement in a fourth grade classroom. The goals of the practicum were: (1) to encourage parents to become involved in helping their children learn at home as well as at school by attending parent-teacher conferences and other school-related activities; (2) to provide home visitation…

One of a series, this guide was produced for parents who want to become involved in their children's education and is designed to help them understand and encourage adolescents' growth and development. Section I offers an overview of adolescence. Section II discusses aspects of self-esteem, qualities of relationships affecting self-esteem, and…

Educators need to find ways to help parents to reexamine their attitudes and practices in child rearing. Such help must first overcome obstacles to attitudinal growth. Obstacles include the possible wholesale acceptance of their own parents' methods, or, conversely, their wholesale rejection due to parents' efforts to be different. Another…

Written for professionals and paraprofessionals involved in counseling, educating, or providing treatment or other services to parents and children, this manual details a training program for parents having difficulty managing their child's behavior. The program consists of eight weekly 2-hour group meetings, followed by individual consultations…

This guide for leaders of parent workshops is based on the Getting Involved booklets (which suggest ways parents of children in Head Start, day care, and other preschool programs can support children's learning through everyday family activities using materials at hand). This workshop leaders' guide offers suggestions for helping parents become…

This paper provides a critical overview of recent developments in parent group education and suggests a basic reorientation of both the principles and structures currently characteristic of the field. A framework designed to encompass the ecology of parent functioning is offered as a stimulus to broadening the view of parenting found in…

The proceedings from the March 1985 conference on rural special education present papers, abstracts, and presentation materials on a wide range of topics. Topics include: rural delivery models, a learning center approach to health and physical education, the microcomputer as an electronic teacher's aide, supervision strategies for a rural…

A family involvement program has been developed at the Pathfinder School, a school for 3- to 7-year-old multiply handicapped brain injured children. (DB)

This is an evaluation of the Parent Orientation Program. It was designed to: improve parental knowledge about school reading and mathematics requirements for their children; improve the performance of the parents in reading and mathematics through the evening adult program; and provide parents with school information via family workers. The…

This directory, compiled by the Princeton Center for Infancy, inventories a wide variety of organizations and services which parents can utilize in child rearing. More than 130 topics are discussed, including problems relating to health, daily routines, illness, family life, discipline, socialization, environment planning, education, family…

This book is about the legal rights that parents have in the education of their children from kindergarten through high school. These rights are of two kinds: the rights that parents have on their own, as parents, and the rights they have as agents for their children. Currently, all the constitutional rights that apply to adults in the community…