One child's unique phonological rule is reported, which increased output variety and still yielded a mismatch with the adult form. It is argued that an addition to the strategies described by Menn is needed to account for the discovery of this rule and for later stages of phonological development. (Author)

Describes the Ready-Set-Go Infant-Child-Parent Program, established to enhance the development of the cognitive competencies of high risk and normal infants through parent awareness of developmental capabilities. (GC)

Presents a factor analytic study of the nine New York Longitudinal Study's (NYLS) temperament variables in a sample of 160 Swedish children from six months to two years of age. Asserts that results corroborated some of the NYLS's findings as well as those of other studies. (Author/MJL)

Demonstrates sharing of meaning among boy toddlers. The question addressed is not, What can a toddler mean? but rather, What meanings can toddlers share? The study tests several hypotheses about shared meaning and its role in sustaining toddler interactions, and proposes a "dictionary" of meanings that toddlers can share. (Author/RH)

Results indicated that Down's syndrome children are delayed in their language development compared to nonretarded children of the same developmental age. This language delay appears to be related to deficiencies in vocal imitation skills but is not related to general sensorimotor functioning. (Author)

Infants five- and seven-months-old were sequentially shown three stimulus arrays of visual elements, only one of which was capable of producing subjective contours. An infant habituation control procedure was used to test infants' abilities to discriminate the arrays. (Author/RH)

Emphasizes that parents' reading to infants fosters interest in literature and provides foundation for basic reading skills. Titles of musical books, point-and-say books, touch and smell books, cardboard books, cloth books, plastic books, and early stories are provided. (Author/DB)

Results suggest that when the internal element of a compound stimulus is a highly preferred or salient stimulus, young infants will process information about its characteristics. (Author/DB)

Data suggest that young infants (110-130 days old) process distinctive features of objects that continuously change orientation. The importance of these findings for theories of cognitive and perceptual development of infants is discussed. (Author/DB)

A review of 47 suicides in women of child-bearing age revealed that two women were pregnant, two were within the first year post-partum and two falsely believed themselves pregnant. Previous studies asserting that pregnancy protects against suicide would seem to be challenged by these data; pregnancy-related suicides are similar to each other.…

Investigates the relation between maternal rearing behavior and the ways children aged 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 years cope with emotions of distress in others. Specifically examined children's reparation for transgression when they were the cause of distress and their altruism when they were bystanders. (JMB)

Children aged 1 1/2 and 2 1/2 years observed events consisting of the removal of crucial support blocks from simple block structures. The child's anticipation ability was measured by the degree of surprise observed on certain trick trials in which concealed magnets prevented the expected collapse. (JMB)

Results showed no evidence that intercorrelations of patterns of attachment behavior were influenced by methodological considerations such as length of observation, setting of observation, or the number of behaviors monitored. Further, there was no evidence of sex differences in the pattern of correlations. (JMB)

Research demonstrated successful discrimination in twenty 6-week-old infants when cardiac rate responses were employed in a no-delay rather than in the conventional discrete trials paradigm. (Author/SB)

This paper demonstrates methodology for assessing symbolic maturity or mental representation as evidenced in symbolic play. Five female subjects (14 to 19 months at the inception of the study) were observed monthly at home in a free-play situation over one year. (Author/SB)