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Lightfoot, Cynthia – 1987
According to Jaan Valsiner, development takes place within culturally structured environments jointly organized by the activities of children and the people around them. When overlap between promoted activity and the child's zone of proximal development exists, the structure of action that results from the interplay of the two is internalized by…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Children, Individual Development, Infants
Peer reviewedKopp, Claire B.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1974
An adaptation of the "Stages of Sensorimotor Intelligence in the Child" was used in a longitudinal study of the sensorimotor behavior acquisitions of 24 healthy middle-class infants. Rate of behavior acquisition, variability in behavior performance and relationships between subtests were analyzed. Some comparisons with previous studies are…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Child Development, Comparative Analysis, Infants
Peer reviewedArendt, Robert E.; And Others – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1991
A quantifiable regimen of supplemental rotary vestibular stimulation was administered in a cross-over longitudinal design to 11 nonhandicapped and 10 Down's syndrome infants. Results indicated that supplementary rotary vestibular stimulation produced no measurable gain in motor ability. Greater gains were exhibited in the early phase of the study,…
Descriptors: Downs Syndrome, Infants, Kinesthetic Methods, Kinesthetic Perception
Painter, Genevieve – 1968
This investigation evaluated a group of 20 8-month to 2-year-old culturally disadvantaged children who were given a 1-year structured educational program as a means of environmental intervention. The program involved language training, conceptual training, and sensory-motor training. The study is the first phase of a longitudinal study to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged, Early Experience
Ogura, Tamiko – 1987
The development of and relationship between early language, symbolic play, sensorimotor skills, and social development were examined in a longitudinal study conducted in Japan with two young autistic males who were observed from the approximate ages of 2 to 4 years in clinic, day care, and home settings. One child acquired speech; the other did…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Autism, Case Studies, Echolalia
Curcio, Frank; And Others – 1969
This paper describes the purposes and procedures of a longitudinal study designed to: (1) relate mother-infant interaction patterns to infant age, sex, and social class; (2) relate mother-infant interaction patterns to infant sensory-motor development; and (3) to examine the relationship between infant sensory-motor development and infant sex and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Data Analysis, Infant Behavior
