• Importance of home environment in intervention programs
The explanatory framework for the rationale of the Mother-Child Education Program is based on different approaches. Like various others, the Program aims to intervene in early ages for those who are believed to be at risk due to environmental conditions and is designed to provide cognitive and social enrichment during the early period of development. It is the society’s responsibility to provide care and protection for young children, especially for those particularly vulnerable due to the conditions of the environment they live in. It is better to prevent the distressing effects of such conditions by early intervention rather than remediating them by later...

• Although the short- and long-term results of the initial research which investigated the small scale implementation of the Mother Training Program revealed impressive results, it became apparent that there was a need for further research which would assess the effects of the revised program both on children and mothers which was being implemented on a wide scale. In addition, the new dissemination structure which enabled the wide scale application of the program needed to be monitored for its effectiveness and efficiency. Since a comprehensive research which investigated the revised program had not been conducted this research made possible the evaluation and monitoring of the program and the dissemination...

• The scope of intervention programs has been expanded as a result of various theoretical interpretations ( Bronfenbrenner, 1979; Munichin, 1985; Sameroff, 1975), to acknowledge as their responsibility the support of both the child and the family. Discussions about the rationale and process of intervention programs have mainly focused on the relationship between the programs and families receiving them.These programs have tried to go beyond promoting child development to include families as important partners ( Bronfenbrenner, 1979). When this is the case results include both the family and the child outcomes. Consequently, parental knowledge of developmental milestones, parental attitudes...

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