Optimizing Theories and Experiments: Optimizing Experimentation in the Behavioral and Social Sciences

This book is for administrators of school programs designed for preschool-age children with disabilities. It provides sufficient background information on public education for preschool children and covers the administrator's role in setting up and managing such a program. The authors present practical strategies for planning programs that will foster the psychological and physical development of young children. They also provide effective methods for incorporating parents as partners in educational planning. Checklists are included at the end of chapters five through ten, which summarize the content of each chapter and transform the information into items for program development and evaluation. This book should be of interest to graduate students in communicative disorders, psychology and other behavioural and social sciences.