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Show V Scene THURSDAY. APRIL CLASSIFIEDS FEATURES PAUL HARVEY WEEKS TV GUIDE 1. 1976 -- Pre - schooling Important To Handicapped :i ) , 4 I If a child is handicapped in some way, education can be an important tod in helping the child to catch up with peers, says James Pezzino of Utah State University. Pezzino, a. graduate student and assistant to the turbances, physical caps or intellectual pre-scho- ol handidevelop- ment delay, Pezzino said of the children they are interested in finding. Currently, a group of 12 children are brought to the Exceptional Child Center where trained professionals work with them. However, there are 12 other youths in rural areas where staff members have been hired to work with the parents in the home. education director at the Exceptional Child Center, has been instrumental in getting a program pre-scho- funded to provide education services to parents and children, especially in outlying components, the graduate student added. He feels because pf the program, many of the less handicapped children will be able to go directly into the public school system when they turn school age. It's difficult to pinpoint what is actually wrong with some of the children we work with, while with others with Downs syndrome or a physical handicap we can easily see where the problem lies," noted Pezzino. Areas. The professionals meet once a week with the parents and provide very specific detailed instruction for the parent to use in working with the child Insome cases, such as for speech therapy, a The program, sponsored by the Utah Division of Family Services, is designed to provide self-car- e services to deveopmen tally slow children, and to assist the parents to become more competent in the management of their child, explained Pezzino. pre-scho- ol Children from Cache, Box Elder, Rich, Duchesne and Uintah counties are eligible, and parents who suspect their children are develop-me- n tally slow are encouraged to contact Pezzino at the at Exceptional Child-Cente- r USU. The child may have speech difficulties, emotional dis program has already been written up for the parent to follow,. explained Pezzino. He emphasized, however, the staff member were flexible enough to write up individual programs to meet . individual goals. We always try to start very simply so the child and parent can feel they are making progrdks. And the tasks to be learned are broken down into very .small For one mother who lives in Cache County, the program has provided the first opportunity to have a break from taking care of her child, who was too difficult to handle to leave in untrained hands. Now she tarings the child to the center and has a few hours a day for herself, and is better able to handle the child during the other times, noted Pam Scott, who is working with Pezzino on the program. Pezzino feels an additional part of the program which is proving successful is the counseling of parents. Often, its hard for parents to adjust to the fact their child is different, he noted. I ? i ? Area Man Advises On Benson Institute ' A Franklin Idaho man, Marlowe Woodward, who is president of what is probably the largest egg production operating in Idaho, has been named to advisory board of the Ezra Taft Benson Agriculture and Food Institute at Brigham Young University. He was named along with five other persons to the - board. The other members include Dr. Max V. Wallen-tinBYU professor of animal science and associate dean of the college; C. Booth Wallentine, executive vice- e, president of the Utah Farm Bureau Federation ; Mark A. Benson, a national director with Saladmaster Corporation Dr. Ruth E. Brasher, chairman of the BYU De partment of Home Economics Education, and Dr. Richard A. Heckmann, BYU associate professor of zoology. Woodward is president of 1 Ritewood Eggs in Franklin and of Oakdale Poultry Farms in Riverton Utah. He is a native of Franklin and graduated from USU and taught junior and senior high school in Springfield, Mink Creek and Franklin, Idaho for IS years. He has been in farming and poultry production when he started working with his father, Cecil, in 1939. Later his brothedr Paul joined the family operation and when the father retired, the and Ramond brothers Wright consolidated their poultry operations. Ritewood and Oakdale together are me of the largest suppliers of eggs in Idaho and Utah. Mr. Woodward has served as bishop of the Franklin ward and held other church position. He has also headed the Idaho Pioneer association in Franklin for many years. The institute was organized last fall to promote basic agricultural and food science research for the benefit of iderpriviledged peoples developing nations the world. An endow-ein excess of $3 million being raised from private id nt The Institute was named after Ezra Taft Benson, former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and currently presi- dent of the Council of the Twelve of The umrch of Jesus Christ of Latteisday Saints. Institute director is Dr. Lowell D. Wood, chairman of the BYU Department of Agricultural Economics, and associate director is D. Delos Ellsworth, assistant professor of agricultural economics and former administrative assistant to Sen. Barry Goldwater. Dr. A. lister Allen, center, dean of the BYU College of Biological and Agricultural Sciences, meets with new advisory board members and directors of the Benson Agriculture and Food Institute. Officials are, from left, seated, Kuthe. Brasher, Marlow Woodward, Dean Allen, Mark A. Benson, and C. Booth Wallentine; standing, D. Delos Ellsworth, laiwell D. Wood. Max V. Wallentine and Richard A. Ileckmann. |