This review indicates the essential contribution of nonlanguage modalities to the acquisitions of communicative competence in children. (MP)

Describes a model parenting program at Prairie View Elementary School, Gainesville, Florida, aimed at providing preventive, developmental and educational services for new parents and their children. (CM)

Provides information about the origin and development of visual problems in infants and includes suggestions for helping such visually impaired infants. (CM)

Describes the program of the Demonstration and Training Center for High Risk or Mentally Retarded Infants of Teenage Mothers (ITAM), which aims at providing stimulation to the high-risk infant in order to enhance his/her development, and to offer educational and supportive programs for the teenage mother. (CM)

Infants who have had opportunities for considerable gross motor exploration on varied surfaces may show appreciation for the subtleties of horizontal space earlier than infants who are carried extensively, but the overall results suggest greater similarity than difference in sensorimotor functioning of American and Indian infants. (Author/AM)

Rhesus monkeys were reared in total isolation, in partial isolation, or under normal conditions with access to mothers and peers. Each group was compared on the rate of acquisition of a simple operant response. (GO)

A technique for efficiently presenting a large number of vocabulary items for the testing of vocabulary comprehension in children younger than 2 years was used with 106 children from a wide range of social status groups and from both English and Spanish speaking families. (Author/SBH)

This study tested the assimilation of an auditory-visual stimulus configuration in 32 infants aged 15 to 16 weeks. The infants' discrimination of matched and mismatched auditory-visual stimuli indicated that infants by 4 months of age are capable of constructing bimodal schemata. (JMB)

Describes two studies which tested the hypothesis that short simple sentences addressed to children are the result of children signaling non-comprehension for longer, complex utterances. (JMB)

This study describes the construction and validation of an instrument designed to measure adults' caretaking experience with infants and young children. (BD)

The development of the concept of object permanence was investigated with eight infants with cleft lip/palate and four nonimpaired infants. Superior performance of the cleft lip/palate group was found, possibly due to increased environmental stimulation provided by parents. (DB)

The Mama Lere Parent-Infant Training Program (Nashville, Tennessee) which serves hearing- and speech-impaired children focuses on family involvement and an intervention plan which includes four service delivery components: facilitation of child communicative competence; educational advocacy and team decision making; information exchange; and…

Explores influence of culturally related caretaking practices on motor development among four Bambara infants who were observed for two days with paper-and-pencil event-recording technique and video films. Records were made of spatial positions experienced in daily behavior and postural adjustments required by maternal manipulations during…

Reports findings of a cross-sectional study and a longitudinal study of infants' and toddlers' interaction with their mothers. Findings indicated active structuring of vocal interaction by the end of the infant's second year; gaze began to approximate the typical adult pattern of signaling as early as 18 months. Implications for theory and…