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Groups Of Parents Themselves: However, it would have been ethically unacceptable, to both teachers and parents, to include such a condition. Again, Jenny Hewison and Jack lizard6 clearly demonstrated, in a working-class area, that up to 50 per cent of parents already hear their children read on a regular basis which would mean that, even in the control groups of parents themselves, many children would have been heard reading at home. Thus these control groups of parents themselves could not strictly be compared with experimental groups of parents themselves where parents were being asked to hear their children read. For these kinds of reasons it is difficult to claim with certainty that it was the fact of parents hearing their children read at home which caused the improvement in reading standards in the Haringey Project. (See references 2 and 7 for fuller discussion.)
Group therapy with parents has also proved helpful. In the permissive atmosphere created by the therapist, parents bring their feelings out into the open, and gain understanding of themselves and of problems common to early childhood. One pediatrician found mixed groups of parents themselves of fathers and mothers more responsive than groups of parents themselves of mothers alone.
There are other possible focuses which can be used to bring parents and teachers together in secondary schools. Discussion groups of parents themselves held for parents can explore the actual subjects taught, as well as more general matters, and sometimes parents can be involved directly in their children's homework. Ebbutt and Barber,30 for example, asked parents to help their first-year children with passages for comprehension covering a range of school subjects, which formed part of a structured programme to help children who had reading difficulties.
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