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Portage Guide To Early Education
Portage Guide To Early Education
EARLY EDUCATION
Rabia Jameel
Introduction
Susan Bulma and colleagues first devised it
A behavioral checklist or curriculum planning
device intended to assess the child’s
Present behavior
Target behaviors
Suggested techniques to teach each behavior
Conti..
The American Portage Project began in Portage,
Wisconsin, in 1969
In response to the need to provide services in a
rural community to young children with disabilities
Portage was designed to be a home-based
intervention
Portage is known for early intervention and
development of intervention systems in the
community
Conti..
0-6 years
Versions
First in 1969
Revised in 1976
New Portage Guide in 2003
Objectives
To assess developmental (functioning) level of the
young children
Provide the strategies to teach the unlearned
behaviors to them ( Curriculum Development Tool)
The aim of the Portage Program is to stimulate the
development of children with a developmental age
Not intended to find out the developmental age of
the child
Conti..