“Toward this end, American educational, public health, social service, and other governmental agencies invest billions of dollars in various forms of intervention (e.g., the 2004 Federal Budget requested $12.4 billion for Title 1, over $1 billion for reading programs [e.g., Reading First], and the modernization of programs designed to provide $40 billion over 10 years for health care coverage of low-income, uninsured children [SCHIP])” (Ceci, 2005, p. 149).
“These interventions provide special services to teach children who are behind in basic number skills and enhances their reading comprehension skills. These students are in middle school. Or the interventions help promote healthcare to targeted programs for the reducing social problems. These can be juvenile delinquency, drug abuse, emotional neglect, and more. They refer to the interventions as universalized interventions to distinguish them from those that are targeted to a high-risk or disadvantaged groups.