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Vicissitudes of Children's Mathematical Knowledge: Implications of Developmental Research for Early Childhood Mathematics Education
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Sophian, Catherine – Early Education and Development, 2013
Hachey's (2013) article celebrates a revolution that is taking place in early childhood mathematics education, fueled in part by developmental research demonstrating the mathematical capabilities of young children. At the same time, Hachey notes that the mathematics revolution she describes is not yet complete. In this commentary, the author…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Early Childhood Education, Child Development, Mathematics Skills
Classroom Instruction: Background, Assumptions, and Challenges
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Wolery, Mark; Hemmeter, Mary Louise – Journal of Early Intervention, 2011
In this article, the authors focus on issues of instruction in classrooms. Initially, a brief definitional and historic section is presented. This is followed by a discussion of four assumptions about the current state of affairs: (a) evidence-based practices should be identified and used, (b) children's phase of performance should dictate…
Descriptors: Evidence, Student Evaluation, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods
Shared Challenges in Object Perception for Robots and Infants
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Fitzpatrick, Paul; Needham, Amy; Natale, Lorenzo; Metta, Giorgio – Infant and Child Development, 2008
Robots and humans receive partial, fragmentary hints about the world's state through their respective sensors. These hints--tiny patches of light intensity, frequency components of sound, etc.--are far removed from the world of objects which we feel and perceive so effortlessly around us. The study of infant development and the construction of…
Descriptors: Infants, Robotics, Visual Perception, Perceptual Development
Confronting Complexity: Insights from the Details of Behavior over Multiple Timescales
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Samuelson, Larissa K.; Horst, Jessica S. – Developmental Science, 2008
Young children tend to generalize novel names for novel solid objects by similarity in shape, a phenomenon dubbed "the shape bias". We believe that the critical insights needed to explain the shape bias in particular, and cognitive development more generally, come from Dynamic Systems Theory. We present two examples of recent work focusing on the…
Descriptors: Neurological Organization, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Individualized Training in Behavioral Strategies for Parents of Preschool Children with Disabilities.
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Cordisco, Linda K.; Laus, Marcia K. – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1993
This article highlights the importance of parents as intervention agents for young children with special needs. It describes individualized training in behavioral strategies for parents, explains procedures for helping parents gain skills that foster their children's development, and suggests that parents will maintain the skills and generalize…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Change Agents, Child Development, Disabilities
A New Way with Autistic and Other Children with Pervasive Developmental Disorders.
Miller, Arnold; Eller-Miller, Eileen – 1992
This monograph describes the program of the Language and Cognitive Development Center (Massachusetts), which serves toddlers and school-aged children with autism or other pervasive developmental disorders (PDD). An introduction presents incidence figures, the program's philosophy, the program's approach to assessment, intervention with children…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Restructuring