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Caulfield, Rick – Day Care & Early Education, 1994
Notes that early infancy, rather than being a period of helplessness, is a period of active exploration and reciprocal interaction with caregivers. Includes activities caregivers can engage in with infants to stimulate infant sensory abilities. (HTH)
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Development, Developmental Stages, Infant Behavior
Peer reviewedMoore, Omar K. – Childhood Education, 1983
Presents a set of guidelines for selecting hardware to promote students' sensory, cognitive, emotional, and social development. (MP)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Emotional Development, Guidelines
Petersen, Evelyn A. – Children and Families, 1998
Asserts that, for young children's development, there is no other activity as meaningful as play. Discusses how play helps in life skill development, how children learn through their senses during play, how play contributes to children's independence, how to shop for toys, and age-appropriate toys and activities. (EV)
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Development, Manipulative Materials, Perceptual Motor Learning
Williamson, G. Gordon; Anzalone, Marie E. – 2001
Some children require a great deal of assistance to overcome difficulties in taking in and responding to information from their senses, and to achieve the levels of self-regulation they need to interact with and explore the world around them. This monograph, targeted to a wide array of disciplines from the medical, therapeutic, educational, mental…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Arousal Patterns, Attention Control, Behavior Patterns
Peer reviewedStinson, Susan W. – Design for Arts in Education, 1990
Recommends creative dance, as part of early childhood education, be developmentally appropriate, using exploratory movement and sensory awareness to teach children about themselves. From personal experience, describes dance work, based on Native-American dance and children's alternative realities, and designed to encourage future development of…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, Art Education, Body Language, Child Development
