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Peace 101: Implementing the Vision.
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Thrush, Ursula – Montessori Life, 1993
Maintains that peace education must start in the home. Discusses the teaching of peace to children of all ages and at every level and the relevance of peace education to the physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual being of children. "A Plan for Peace Education," a proposal approved by the Montessori Accreditation Council for…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Development, Communication Skills, Conflict Resolution
Profiles of Toddlers with Slow Expressive Language Development.
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Paul, Rhea – Topics in Language Disorders, 1991
A portrait is presented of the toddler with slow expressive language development (SELD), based on research examining the health history; cognitive, communicative, and adaptive skills; behavior; and phonology of 30 toddlers with SELD and 30 nondisabled toddlers. The paper offers a review of research on the outcomes of SELD, and explores…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Cognitive Development, Communication Skills, Expressive Language
I See What You Mean: Nonverbal Communication Strategies of Young Deaf Children.
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Christensen, Kathee Mangan – American Annals of the Deaf, 1988
The communicative behavior of five hearing-impaired children, aged two-three, and five hearing subjects was analyzed. Results showed that the quantity of communication demonstrated by the hearing-impaired children paralleled the quantity of communication observed in hearing peers when nonverbal communication acts, particularly gaze and gesture,…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Skills, Comparative Analysis
Development of Adaptive Behavior in Preschoolers with Autism or Down Syndrome.
Loveland, Katherine A.; Kelley, Michelle L. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1991
This study found that 16 preschoolers with Down's syndrome attained higher age equivalents and standard scores in "socialization" than did 16 preschoolers with autism. Adaptive age equivalent was positively related to chronological age for children with Down's syndrome in all domains, but only in "communication" for children with autism.…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Age Differences, Autism, Behavior Development
Trial Use of the SICD in Testing Preacademic Cerebral Palsied Children.
Dreher, Barbara B. – 1978
The Sequenced Inventory of Communication Development (SICD), which was designed for remedial programming of children with language disorders, mental retardation, and specific language problems, was given to 13 cerebral palsied preschoolers along with the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test. Time and environmental constraints required considerabLe…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Cerebral Palsy, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer)
A Comparison of Adaptive Behavior in Gifted and Nongifted Children.
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Douthitt, Vicki L. – Roeper Review, 1992
The patterns of adaptive behavior in gifted and nongifted children (n=296, ages 2-16) were compared using the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale. Results indicated a significant difference between gifted and nongifted groups in communication, social skills, and daily living skills, but not in motor skill development. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Development, Behavior Rating Scales, Communication Skills