The annotated bibliography contains 170 citations on factors that affect parental responses to their physically handicapped infants. References are given for the following specific disabilities: blind, cardiac, cerebral palsied, deaf, deaf blind, hemophiliac, mentally retarded, metabolic, neurological, and orthopedic. About 90 citations deal with…

This paper briefly reviews studies pertaining to the imitation of facial gestures in early infancy. It is suggested that imitation provides for the initiation of a reciprocal exchange between mother and infant, but does not sustain such an interaction, since this requires a continually varied and changing pattern of gestures. Thus there is an…