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Download full textNorth, A. Frederick – 1973
This new addition of a government pamphlet is a guide offering advice and information to new parents. Sections include: You and Your New Baby (handling the baby, care of the mother, feeding, etc.); First Weeks at Home (equipment, formula preparation, bathing, sleeping, crying, colic, etc.); After the First Weeks (temperament, "difficult" babies,…
Descriptors: Child Care, Guides, Health Materials, Infants
Brown, Audrey K., Ed.; Showacre, Jane, Ed. – 1977
This book contains 16 papers from the 1974 conference held by the Pregnancy and Infancy Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to: (1) assess the photobiological processes involved in phototherapy used in treatment of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia, and (2) to document long term clinical experience with the treatment…
Descriptors: Infants, Longitudinal Studies, Medical Care Evaluation, Medical Research
Holtzman, Neil A. – 1977
This monograph, designed for persons involved in the organization and regulation of screening of newborns infants for Phenylketonuria (PKU) and other genetic-metabolic diseases reviews new developments in the field, makes recommendations, and provides information about specific conditions other than PKU that are detectable by screening. Discussed…
Descriptors: Diseases, Ethics, Infants, Laboratory Techniques
Connolly, Theresa; Struck, Beth; Tennant, Michelle, Ed.; Brady, Barbara, Ed. – 1994
Designed for use in the home and in professional child-care settings, this program presents developmentally appropriate activities to support growth and development of infants from birth to 1 year. Each of the six 2-month long units contains 24 sets of activities called Activity Plans, with the suggestion to use three activity plans per week. Each…
Descriptors: Activities, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Direct linkGhoting, Saroj Nadkarni; Martin-Diaz, Pamela – ALA Editions, 2005
Research confirms that reading success starts with young children enjoying library storytimes! Preschoolers' earliest experiences with books and reading are important; parent/caregiver knowledge can build on those experiences, according to research from the National Institute of Child Health & Development, conducted with PLA and ALSC, the…
Descriptors: Scripts, Phonological Awareness, Caregivers, Child Health
Nadel, Jacqueline, Ed.; Butterworth, George, Ed. – 1999
Modern research has suggested that imitation is a natural mechanism of learning and communication, yet the possibility of imitation in newborn humans has been controversial. This book looks at evidence for innate imitation in babies. The chapters in the first section of the book reassess the Piagetian tradition, especially concerning the relation…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Communication Research
Brown, Catherine Caldwell, Ed. – 1981
Summarized in this book are conference presentations focusing on new approaches to developmental screening of infants and strategies for early intervention with children at-risk. Summaries concerning assessment describe characteristics of an "optimality scale" for neurological assessment; a five-step neurological assessment for…
Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Child Development, Disadvantaged, Evaluation Methods
Magnuson, Miriam – 2000
This thesis explores parental perspectives on hearing-screening of children, and the importance of the time of detection of a congenital hearing impairment for the child's development. A qualitative approach based mainly on interviews was employed, and the results were analyzed according to three different methods-empirical phenomenology, grounded…
Descriptors: Deafness, Early Identification, Early Intervention, Foreign Countries
Streissguth, Ann – 1997
The 14 chapters of this book review the research and offer guidelines for intervention with infants and children having fetal alcohol syndrome or fetal alcohol effects (FAS/FAE). Chapters are grouped into five sections on the diseases of fetal alcohol, the science of FAS, a life-span approach to FAS, preparing people with FAS for life in the…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Child Advocacy, Early Intervention, Elementary Secondary Education
Slater, Alan, Ed. – 1998
The development of sensory and perceptual ability in infants is an important area of infancy research. This book reflects current knowledge of perceptual development and points to some of the many questions that remain unanswered. The book is divided into four parts. Part 1, "How the Visual System Develops: Normal and Abnormal…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Processes
Nixon, Dianne; Gould, Katy – 1996
As our knowledge of young children grows, so does our awareness of the importance of the first few years of life. This book is written for students of child care at the college level, for those who work with children in the first three years of their lives, and for anyone who wants to understand more about what researchers and theorists have to…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behaviorism, Child Abuse, Child Development
Waldstein, Arnold, Ed.; And Others – 1982
This collection of articles evolved from papers presented and issues discussed at a workshop entitled "The Health Care/Education Relationship: Services for Infants with Special Needs and Their Families," held in March, 1981, for members of the Handicapped Children's Early Education Program (HCEEP) network. During that workshop, staff…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Child Development Specialists, Communication Skills, Consultation Programs
Klaus, Marshall H., Ed.; Robertson, Martha Oschrin, Ed. – 1982
Provided are summaries of conference presentations discussing aspects of birth, parent/child interaction, and attachment behavior. Material in part I explores perspectives on pregnancy and the perinatal period. Included are discussions of birth in nonindustrial societies, progress in the study of maternal behavior in animals, the physiological…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Animal Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Birth
Ugalde, Antonio, Ed.; Cardenas, Gilberto, Ed. – 1997
Eleven papers from a workshop titled "International Migration: Health and Social Policies" focus on common concerns and problems in providing social and health services to labor migrants and immigrants in the United States and the European Union. Following an introduction (Antonio Ugalde, Gilberto Cardenas), the papers are: (1)…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Females, Foreign Countries, Health Conditions
Halfon, Neal, Ed.; McLearn, Kathryn Taaffe, Ed.; Schuster, Mark A., Ed. – 2002
In the wake of intense national interest in very young children, this volume presents an examination of the findings of the Commonwealth Survey of Parents with Young Children, as analyzed by scholars from diverse disciplines. What emerges from this analysis is a picture of the complex forces that influence families and child rearing in the…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Birth, Breastfeeding, Child Development
