caa a22 4500 38639735X CHVBK 20180307112142.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198911 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0816512200026055 doi S0816512200026055 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0816512200026055 Baker Sue Horsham Portage Service, West Sussex Developments in the Portage Early Intervention Service in the U.K [Elektronische Daten] [Sue Baker] Portage is a home-based educational service for families with pre-school children with special educational needs. The services gained its name fortuitously as Portage just happened to be the small town in Wisconsin, U.S.A., where the project was first developed. The town is a crossover, or ‘portage', between two rivers and as such symbolises the essence of the service: a ‘bridge', transferring knowledge and expertise from professionals to parents; closing the gap between deficits exhibited by young children and skills needed for success in school and later life. The Portage Scheme was developed in 1969 as one of hundreds of projects in the Head Start Programme in the U.S.A. aiming to provide early education for children with special needs. Children living in rural communities were the focus of this particular project. The originators David & Marsha Shearer (1972) felt it inappropriate for these children to travel long distances into a centre. Instead they broke with the traditions of their day and developed a service that was taken to the children in the familiar environment of their homes where their own parents were helped to become their teachers. The decision to do this was based on a conviction that parents are potentially the child's best teachers, particularly in the early years. Copyright © Australian Psychological Society 1989 The Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist Cambridge University Press 6/2(1989-11), 22-25 0816-5122 6:2<22 1989 6 EDP https://doi.org/10.1017/S0816512200026055 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0816512200026055 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Baker Sue Horsham Portage Service, West Sussex NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Australian Educational and Developmental Psychologist Cambridge University Press 6/2(1989-11), 22-25 0816-5122 6:2<22 1989 6 EDP CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge