Improving Disadvantaged Families' Educational Skills: Changes in Children and Caregivers

摘要: Summary.-The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects for three famiLies, each with a fifth-gade child at risk, training in skills such as communicating teachers and administrators, providing quiet place their work, praising child's appropriate changes academic social behaviors. The caregivers were trained by university smdent these evaluated an AB time series design. All families showed increased involvement school. Two children improved performance both school home. Schools persons community may assist students risk parents educational skds designed help complete work home increase parents' contacts schools (Vacha & McLaughlin, 1992, 1993). present effectiveness fifth-grade who failure. Three 10-yt-old children, two mothers, one grandmother participated. Each had been identified fifth grade teacher being failure on basis classroom behavior, performance, environment. In public assistance, fathers terminally ill not third family raising fetal alcohol syndrome. Weekly visits made follow-up week's activities. objectives learn seek answers concerning children's design programs aid establishing control Target behaviors selected included homework completion, chore showing consideration other students, helping classroom. task individualized consequences (books materials that could be used reward children) provided caregivers. At end day, student caregiver reviewed graphed perfoi-ma~ce. During baseline, Child 1 completed 50.0% Children 2 3 0.0%. After visits, 96.4% his homework, 71.0% homework. Week 3, no assignments. Baseline data completion