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This article describes an intervention program serving 75 preschool multiply handicapped children living in a rural area. Ages of the children ranged from birth to 6 years. All instruction took place in the child's home. Individualized curriculum was prescribed and demonstrated by a home teacher who visited each parent and child 1 day per week for 1% hours. During the week, the parents taught the prescribed curriculum and recorded the child's resultant behavior on a daily basis. The results of the project indicate that handicapped children can progress above their expected developmental rate and that parents can initiate, observe, and accurately record this change.
Shearer et al. (Wed,) studied this question.