Presents findings from an in-depth study of children's composing processes in an effort to explain handwriting performance in relation to child development and the writing process. (GT)

The influence of the oral input of five deaf mothers on the language development of their two-year-old children was investigated. The results indicated that children, when cognitively ready, need little exposure to the normal model language to learn to speak during the early stages of development. (Author/DLS)

Factors considered include physical health, life satisfaction, and adolescent development and behavior in the handicapped. Some behaviors and symptoms to help practitioners recognize depression and suicide potential in the handicapped are presented along with several steps to take if depression is suspected. Also considered is suicide prevention.…

Reviews professional and popular literature on the effects of nonmaternal care on preschool children. Concludes that, although data show that high quality nonmaternal care does not adversely affect the young child's social, emotional, and intellectual development, popular books and magazines have only recently begun to reflect this perspective.…

Describes the training of sixth and seventh graders in helping with preschoolers' play sessions. Students met with the writer for a half-hour discussion afterwards. The training helped them understand normal development and learning of communication skills to facilitate caring for and interaction with young children. (Author/JAC)

Reports that internality increased significantly with children's age and with children's perceptions of increased parental acceptance and that these two factors accounted for 22% of the variance of children's locus of control scores. (Author/RL)

Provides an overview of the development of the Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS), the nature of the instrument and conditions for its proper administration, and issues underlying the use of the NBAS in research (e.g., reliability). The first in a series of articles in a single monograph assessing the NBAS. (BH)

Reviews issues of reliability (especially test-retest reliability) in newborn assessment, discusses predictive models based on newborn assessment, and presents information on modifications of the Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale which may help in pursuing fruitful questions involving prediction of development. (Author/BH)

Discusses the role and limitations of the Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale in the continuing effort to construct an adequate account of infant development. (BH)

Piaget's theoretical position assumes that the ability to solve complete multiplication will be an earlier development in the child than partial multiplicative classification and his experimental findings support this hypothesis. The present experiment using 159 children aged 4:7 to 7:6 years re-examined the issue. (Editor/RK)

When speaking to young children just acquiring language, parents employ certain appropriate language features. Parental speech in English and Spanish was analyzed for presence and distribution of these features. Differences were noted, yet there was a high degree of similarity across parents and languages for frequently occuring features. (CHK)

Adult expansion of child utterances can serve as a communication check and as a base for child language research. Inappropriate expansion may be corrected by the child if it changes his meaning, or may be ignored, if word order or phonetics appeared correct to the child. (CHK)

Proposes a conceptual model for the study of child development in minority populations in the United States that is anchored within social stratification theory and emphasizes the importance of racism, prejudice, discrimination, oppression, and segregation in the development of minority children and families. (MDM)