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Olusanya, Bolajoko O. – Volta Review, 2006
Infant hearing screening is emerging rapidly as a silent global revolution for the early detection of children with congenital or early onset hearing loss to ensure timely enrollment in family-oriented intervention programs for the development of spoken language. This article examines the overriding and interrelated scientific, ethical and…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Early Intervention, Infants, Hearing Impairments
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Wooldridge, Deborah; Keino, Leah; Mayers, Gloysis – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2006
Empowering women and allowing them to provide community leadership in a rapidly changing and increasingly complex society is essential. Offering a sound family science curriculum is one way to facilitate empowerment of women in a developing country. Conceptualizing, planning, and developing strong programs became an opportunity to review existing…
Descriptors: Models, Females, Empowerment, Community Leaders
Gaffney, Janet S.; Paynter, Susan Y. – 1995
A literacy intervention is designed to produce accelerated change, moving student achievement rapidly and providing for sustained performance over time. Adopting a complex intervention is a problem-solving process that requires understanding of the conceptual congruity of all aspects of the theory, intervention, and training underlying the…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Educational Change, Literacy, Primary Education
Dalton, Maxine A.; Hollenbeck, George P. – 1996
Effective leadership development usually requires a range of ongoing and integrated activities. This report presents a six-step model created by the Center for Creative Leadership's (CCCL) "Tools for Developing Successful Executives" program. The steps include: (1) find and use organizational support for creating a process, not an event; (2)…
Descriptors: Leadership, Leadership Training, Management Development, Organizational Development
World Health Organization, Geneva (Switzerland). – 1989
This guide is intended to provide planners, managers, and technical staff with guidelines for planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating an Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) health promotion program. As such, it can be used in the development of a detailed AIDS health promotion action plan. The guide reviews the steps, processes,…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Foreign Countries, Health Promotion, Prevention
Join Together, Boston, MA. – 1999
This Monthly Action Kit introduces some approaches to defining local substance abuse indicators and provides ideas on how to measure them. The kit also contains examples of what some communities are doing to measure their local progress. A few indicators worth considering are outlined with suggestions about what to measure, where to find the data,…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Data Collection, Prevention, Program Development
Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration (DHHS/PHS), Rockville, MD. Office for Substance Abuse Prevention. – 1991
Prevention research and demonstration studies are finding that coordinated prevention efforts that offer multiple strategies, provide several points of access, and coordinate and expand community opportunities are a most promising approach to preventing alcohol and other drug problems. To meet the need for direction, the Office for Substance Abuse…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Community Involvement, Community Role, Drug Abuse
G. Allan Roeher Inst., Toronto (Ontario). – 1990
This monograph presents principles and insights drawn from interviews and scholarly sources on the development of friendships between persons with disabilities and the nondisabled. Vignettes at the end of each chapter illustrate the chapter's principles. The first chapter looks at why friends are important and discusses intimacy and affection,…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Community Programs, Disabilities, Friendship
Nieberding, Ronald A., Ed. – 1989
This report contains the recommendations of the select committee for lesbian and gay concerns for Rutgers University. The executive summary outlines the principal goals and objectives for the university. Section 1 describes an agenda to improve public relations at Rutgers. Bigotry and homophobia are discussed and representative comments from a…
Descriptors: College Environment, Higher Education, Homosexuality, Justice
Charles County Board of Education, La Plata, MD. Office of Special Education. – 1981
The booklet describes seven assessment instruments that may be helpful in planning educational programs for mildly educationally handicapped secondary students. Each instrument is outlined in terms of ordering information, target population, areas assessed, materials included, time required for administration, group size, format and…
Descriptors: Mild Disabilities, Program Development, Scores, Secondary Education
Sovner, Robert, Ed.; Hurley, Anne Des Noyers, Ed. – Psychiatric Aspects of Mental Retardation Newsletter, 1983
Two newsletters review the principles and application of two behavior modification techniques with mentally retarded persons: overcorrection and punishment. Overcorrection may be either restitutional, in which the client is made to restore the environment to a far better state than before the inappropriate behavior occurred, or positive practice…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Ethics, Mental Retardation, Program Development
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, Washington, DC. – 1983
Changes made by 41 institutions of higher education to improve the quality of teacher education are briefly reported in this news release, as examples of responses to the need to improve educational quality. In general, institutions are raising standards, changing their programs, offering faculty and staff development activities, developing…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Higher Education, Program Development
Robinson, Ann – 1983
Saturday enrichment programs are viable options for gifted children who are not served in the public schools. Because such programs are not dependent on schools or state departments for funding, or for initiation, Saturday programs can be successfully operated by parent and other advocacy groups. Guidelines for considering such programs focus on…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Enrichment, Gifted, Parent Role
Goforth, Myra H. – Educational Technology, 1975
Descriptors: High Schools, Individualized Instruction, Mathematics Instruction, Open Plan Schools
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Ross, Gail P. – Business Education Forum, 1976
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Office Practice, Program Development, Student Motivation
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