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PDF pending restorationEastman, Wayne – 2000
Recognizing the role of physical activity in helping young children to attain desired objectives, educators should continually be investigating avenues for involving children in daily physical activity. This paper presents the Active Living approach, a uniquely Canadian experience that encourages young children to be physically active every day.…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Day Care, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Early Childhood Education
Peer reviewedGuskin, Samuel L.; And Others – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1988
Undergraduate education students (n=111) and graduate students (n=79) with teaching experience indicated resemblances among 20 different kinds of abilities in which 12-year-olds might excel. Both groups of teachers agreed on five categories of giftedness: analytic/cognitive ability, personality and social skills, creative arts, motor skills, and…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Classification, Cognitive Ability, Creative Art
Download full textBrown, William H. – Journal of Early Intervention, 2001
This article comments on two studies (EC 629 875) that investigated the validity of a set of 15 general growth outcomes (GGOs) for identifying young children with disabilities. It argues that without additional efforts focusing on the nature of GGOs, the ultimate utility of the outcome measures will be limited. (Contains references.) (CR)
Descriptors: Check Lists, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages
Patrick, Teri – 1996
This paper discusses linkages between play, healthy social and emotional development, and behavior management in young children. Play is defined as pleasurable, self-motivated, non-goal-directed, and spontaneous behavior, free from adult-imposed rules. Many children have limited time available for play because they are directed by adults in day…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Childhood Needs, Conflict Resolution, Cooperation
Chen, Deborah; And Others – 1997
This manual documents key program development strategies and inservice training topics provided by the Model Demonstration Early Intervention Network Project. This project focused on building the capacity of early intervention programs to serve infants who are deaf-blind and their families. The first section covers program development and includes…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Deaf Blind, Disability Identification, Drug Therapy
Treme, Cindy Gehron – 1992
This practicum report describes an intervention designed to increase opportunities for children in a day care center and preschool to practice gross motor skills, and to help teachers gain confidence in their ability to foster children's maturation. It was expected that as a result of the intervention, 50 of 70 children would participate in gross…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Wasserman, John D.; And Others – 1993
The original Bayley Scales of Infant Development (BSID) have been among the most popular measures of performance and aptitude of infants. In this study, the construct validity of scores on the Behavior Rating Scale of the revised Bayley Scales, the BSID-II, was investigated using national standardization and clinical samples of children ranging in…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aptitude Tests, Behavior Rating Scales, Child Development
McCamey, Jody – 1992
This guide for teenage mothers discusses the needs of the mother and her child during the first year of the child's life. Information on the child's and the mother's behavior and emotions just after the child's birth is presented. Also presented is information on the following: procuring items needed for tending the baby; playing; crying; breast…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Body Weight, Breastfeeding, Child Development
Thompson, Bruce; And Others – 1994
The original "Bayley Scales of Infant Development" (BSID) (Bayley 1969) have been among the most popular measures of performance and aptitude of infants. In the present study the reliability and construct validity of mental and motor scores on the revised Bayley Scales of Infant Development-II (BSID-II) were investigated. A national…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aptitude Tests, Behavior Patterns, Child Development
Middleton-Cross Plains Area School District, WI. – 1983
A comprehensive physical education curriculum from kindergarten through grade 12 is presented. Objectives are outlined for each grade level along with descriptions of activities. Grading procedures are described as well as physical fitness testing programs. Course descriptions are given for activities at the high school level, including lifetime…
Descriptors: Adapted Physical Education, Athletic Equipment, Athletics, Class Activities
Paciorek, Michael J. – 1983
A study focused on developmentally delayed children who participated in a home-based, parent intervention motor development program. The major question considered was: Is there any difference in gross and fine motor mean scores obtained on the Peabody Developmental Motor Scales (field test edition), received by children who participated in the…
Descriptors: Adapted Physical Education, Developmental Disabilities, Home Instruction, Individual Development
Blind Children's Fund, Aburndale, MA. – 1987
This text assists parents and other caregivers in stimulating the young child with a severe visual impairment, in order to encourage development of normal behaviors which blindness delays and to prevent the appearance of psychological disturbances. Simple language and illustrations describe the stages of child development from newborn to 3 years…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Blindness, Child Development, Childhood Needs
Aspinall, Sharon; And Others – 1982
The curriculum for elementary or junior high educable mentally handicapped students is sequentially developed to include skills necessary for vocational competence and independent living. Sequenced objectives are presented for eight major curriculum areas: (1) reading/language arts (receptive and expressive language, phonemic analysis,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Elementary Education, Eye Hand Coordination, Health Education
Williams, Ben H.; And Others – 1982
The Project OMNI curriculum is intended to help students develop necessary prerequisite skills for independent travel. The teacher's guidebook provides an overview of the OMNI curriculum components (individual student inventories, individual student profiles, and curriculum modules); discusses the relation of the module areas to the mobility…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Concept Formation, Curriculum Guides, Daily Living Skills
Hallam, Philippa M.; Williams, John G. – 1987
The purpose of the study was to determine whether particular aspects of movement control influenced the performance of 2-year-old children on a standard developmental test, and thus influenced assessments of intellectual progress based on that test. Six cerebral-palsied (CP) children were compared with six children not suffering motor system…
Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Child Development, Difficulty Level, Early Childhood Education
