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    The Portage Guide to Early Education is a behavioral checklist and curriculum planning tool intended to assess a child's present behaviors, target behaviors to teach, and techniques to do so. It was developed in 1969 in Portage, Wisconsin to provide home-based early intervention services to young children with disabilities. Portage activities stimulate developmental milestones to promote independence with parental involvement. It covers areas like social, language, motor, and cognitive skills from ages 0-6. The guide emphasizes correct teaching procedures and reinforcement to implement its curriculum.

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    PORTAGE GUIDE TO

    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..

     Portage learning activities stimulate the acquisition


    of developmental milestones that will lead to
    greater independence and continued parental
    involvement
    Age Range

     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..

     Provide a program for families with special


    children
     To support the parents/families
    Areas It Covers
     Infant Stimulation (Light Blue)
     How the child responds to its environment
     Social Skills (Dark Blue)
     Involve skills of living and interacting with other people
     Language Skills (Green)
     Systematic patteren of language development
     Self Help Skills (yellow)
     Self care
     Cognitive Skills (Gold)
     Ability to remember, see likeliness and difference, determine relationship etc
     Motor Skills (Orange)
     Coordinated movement of large and small body muscles
    Correction Procedures
     Emphasis on the correct procedure
     Avoid using no and not where possible
     Give only the amount of aid required
     Do not punish while correcting a child
     Allow the child to perform independently but give him/her
    help before he/she get frustrated
     Reinforce the child on the completion of a task even if he/she
    needed help
     Start with the least developed as it may have many behaviors
    in it, which could be prerequisites for teaching other behaviors
    Implementing Curriculum
     First things first : the learning pre-requistes
     Start with the development of eye contact, attention,
    compliance, imitation and on-sit behavior, before
    going to the complex behaviors
     Use of Reinforcement
     Identify the appropriate reinforcement for the child and
    give it on the completion of the task
    Conti..
     Types of Reinforcement
     Consumables
     Candies, chocolate, juices etc
     Activity
     Playing and going on swings etc
     Possessional
     Keeping plastic toys with himself
     Social
     Praising, clapping etc
    Administration
    Scoring
    Conti…

     Besides the home-intervention version of the


    program, a version for intervention in a group of
    children
    Strengths
     Portage uses a highly structured yet modifiable
    teaching package
     It is inexpensive, available and easy to translate and
    adapt
     It is highly adaptable to daily living skills
     Portage help the family to make a bond with the
    child and to accept him/her
     If curriculum is modified then it can be used for
    older children with a range of impairments
    Weaknesses
     Portage places an additional burden
     The Portage Guide usually works in isolation
     Portage perhaps unfairly shifts responsibility from
    the community to the family
     At present Portage is limited in its range of ages
    and categories of disability served

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