[NIFL-FAMILY:543] Recruitment

From: Heather Miller (HMiller@tbaisd.k12.mi.us)
Date: Fri Dec 21 2001 - 09:30:21 EST


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Hi...I am a speech/language pathologist working for Traverse Bay Area
Intermediate School District.  This year I am working on a grant to help
reduce the need for special education and promote school readiness in the
0-6 year old population in a 5-county rural area.  Part of the program
includes a parent education program called "You Make the Difference," a
program to enhance parent/child interactions and improve children's social
and language development.  It includes 9 weekly classes of 3 hours--90
minutes of interactive classroom discussion/learning/videotape viewing for
the adults and ending with a 5-minute, individual, videotaping sessions of
each parent and child trying out the techniques learned.

We are interested in getting as many at risk parents as possible to
participate (at risk being those parents that may not spend much time
interacting with their children or may not use much language as they do) and
a friend suggested that this group could have some great suggestions of ways
to entice these parents to participate..ideas that have worked for you.  We
have been able to come up with offering dinner with the class and quality
childcare and I have also secured 1/4 credit of high school diploma credit.
We have one and a half years to try it out.

Please suggest any ideas you have had success with...please...

Heather Miller
Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District
1101 Red Drive, P.O. Box 6020
Traverse City, Michigan  49686

email:  hmiller@tbaisd.k12.mi.us



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