Twenty-seven 4-month-old infants heard a repetitive auditory rhythm, then viewed silent film of puppet opening/closing its mouth, either in the familiar rhythm or a novel rhythm. Results showed infants exposed to the novel condition watched the film longer than infants shown the familiar condition, providing evidence for auditory-visual transfer…

Three experiments were conducted in order to investigate the developmental relationship between children's and adults' use of pointing and verbal descriptions as devices for reference. (Author/MP)

Factor scores from Bayley's Infant Behavior Record (obtained from 300 to 400 infants at six, 12, 18, and 24 months) were selected to represent three aspects of infant behavior: task orientation, test affect-extraversion, and activity. Findings indicate reordering of individual differences is age-related and that the reordering sequence is somewhat…

Findings support the general hypothesis that the nature of parent/infant interaction and infant development assessed at 12 months is anticipated by a complex pattern of variables, beginning with the parents' characteristics before the birth of their first child and extending via parent/infant and infant behavior throughout the first year of life.…

Results obtained from observations of the interactions of 20 mother/infant pairs supported the hypothesis that high interactional stability would be strongly linked to low levels of crying during social attention. (MP)

Examines the effect of nutritional supplementation provided to mothers during pregnancy and lactation on the mental and motor development of their infants. While neither sex nor mental differences could be attributed to supplementation, motor development in infants was affected. (Author/MP)

Compares differences in the attachment behavior of infants from middle-class homes who were in day care full-time, part-time, or not at all. Results of a strange-situation procedure in a laboratory setting suggested that the length of daily separation appears to be an important determinant of day care effects on infant/mother attachment.…

Follow-up data on a program that screened 17 newborns for sickle cell anemia suggests that in order to derive maximum benefit from such screening physicians need to better understand the differential diagnosis, treatment, and inheritance of sickle cell disease, and individual guidance must be provided to families. (GC)

The infant stimulation-mother training program, providing intervention at birth for infants at risk for developmental delay and their socially disadvantaged families, is evaluated. (CL)

The authors describe a professional training program in the field of early intervention for Master's level students at Wheelock College, Boston, MA. (Author/CL)

The article reviews children's intellectual response to four major programs concerned with the prevention of developmental retardation that have used experimentally adequate research designs. (Author/CL)

The relevance of the new National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities definition of learning disabilities is discussed in relation to the infant population. (Author/CL)

Mothers' language was highly related to the babies' focus of attention in play, but proportionately less related to vocalization than to the activity. (Author/CL)

Observation of five infants' vocalizations during their first 30 weeks showed that hearing impaired infants displayed different language patterns than normally hearing infants. Developmental differences in vocal activity were observed by six weeks, suggesting that hearing impaired infants may differ from unimpaired infants earlier than has been…

Investigates the effect of the relationship between conditions at encoding (familiarization) and retrieval (test) with regard to infants' performance on a paired-comparison recognition test. Subjects were 32 male and 32 female infants between 8.7 and 10.3 months of age. (MP)