The guide was developed as part of Project Prepare, a demonstration program designed to teach disadvantaged parents adult basic education skills and to show these parents how and what to teach their preschool children. It contains activities, advice, and resources for parents. All materials pertain to creative play for preschoolers that develop…

This monograph serves as an overview of theory and technique for parent training, most specifically through the implementation of programs led by the elementary school counselor and the school psychologist. This document explores the history, basic assumptions, goals, training procedures, training of trainers, and references and resources from a…

To assist the early development of children in a poorly educated, rural four-county area of North Carolina, the Early Childhood Library Project trained parents and babysitters to teach preschool children by using educational games and materials supplied by the library. Equipment was purchased and made available to the community, story hours were…

Reported are results of a practicum from which a regional program for hard of hearing preschool children was developed and implemented which provided direct classroom services, parent counseling and inservice educational programs for school districts in the southeast region of Massachusetts. Noted is the delivery model of an educational…

This paper from the 1976 Southeastern Conference on Human Development is an overview of the attitudes that have influenced the research and writings on childrearing form 1920 to 1950. The content of articles in popular periodicals on infants and child care for mothers is reviewed in relation to the themes and scientific movements of the period.…

This booklet describes the Title III ESEA Program, "Added Dimensions to Parent and Preschool Education," which was designed and implemented by the Jefferson County Public Schools in Lakewood, Colorado. The objectives, history, description, and evaluation of the Jefferson County Program are presented as well as detailed information on the…

The Florida Follow Through Model is one of several federally-funded experimental programs that attempts to modify the type of educational experience that children from low-income backgrounds receive during their first four years (K-3) of schooling. In the case of the Florida model, the emphasis is on home as well as school intervention. Two…

The report reproduces forms and discusses procedures used in a preschool clinic designed to assess learning disabilities, developmental lags, and school readiness in a regular elementary school setting. Introductory remarks point out such matters as the importance of organizing auxiliary personnel into a pupil personnel services team, the need to…

This report describes the Demonstration and Research Center for Early Childhood Education (DARCEE), a center initiated to develop knowledge to improve the educability of young children. The report includes a fold-out diagram of DARCEE intervention programs--completed, current, and planned. Each program is listed with (1) an explanation of the…

This study determined whether a systematic program of parent education for a period of six weeks would effect significant changes in the self-concept, attitude, behavior, and academic achievement of the mentally retarded children of these parents. Two groups of educable mentally retarded Negro pre-adolescents were compared on measures of…

In this study, the relationship between students' expectations for the environment of the college they are about to enter and the level of formal education completed by their parents was investigated. It was hypothesized that entering freshmen students whose parents both had only a high school education differed from entering freshmen whose…

In 1967 Neighborhood House joined with the Seattle Day Nursery, an agency which has provided quality child care for many years, to institute a Head Start day care program for children from low-income families. The program established has two components: the St. James Head Start Center which has three classrooms and the Day Care Home Program which…

The Family Center is the direct outgrowth of Nurseries in Cross-Cultural Education (NICE) and is committed to the values of cross-cultural associations. Families approach the education of children 2 to 5 years as an intercultural preschool experience whose influence extends outward to the multi-ethnic neighborhood. Parents are encouraged to…

The total variety of ways in which parents learn to care for their children during different stages of their development is impossible to ascertain. Numerous programs are available to aid parents in understanding children, and evaluation of these programs is difficult. To determine the reception and effectiveness of such resources, 496 mothers of…

A project investigated a way in which early intervention into the lives of babies might break the poverty cycle. Major objectives were to find out whether the use of disadvantaged paraprofessional women as Parent Educators of indigent mothers of infants and young children enhanced the development of the children and increased the mother's…