This guidebook for early intervention personnel was developed by the "Let's Play! Project," a 3-year federally supported project that worked to promote play in infants and toddlers with disabilities through the use of "low-tech" assistive technology. An introductory section considers the importance of play for children of this age and is followed…

This booklet compiles information on 16 screening instruments for young children. For each instrument, the following information is provided: (1) name; (2) publisher; (3) year published; (4) cost of kit; (5) cost per child/cost of forms; (6) age range; (7) domains tested (including cognitive, expressive language, receptive language, articulation,…

"Zero to Three" is a single-focus bulletin of the National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families providing insight from multiple disciplines on the development of infants, toddlers, and their families. This issue focuses on the organization's 25 years of working with infants, toddlers, and families. The articles are as follows: (1)…

Early Head Start (EHS) is a comprehensive program providing intensive services from before birth to age 3 to promote improved outcomes in child, family, staff, and community development. The third of a 3-volume series designed to share the experiences of the 17 EHS programs participating in the Early Head Start National Research and Evaluation…

The LINKAGES Project is intended to improve breastfeeding and related complementary feeding and maternal dietary practices. The project, in consultation with technical experts and program managers, identified a set of recommended feeding and dietary practices intended to break the cycle of poor health and nutrition that passes from generation to…

This review of the developmental readiness of normal, full-term infants to progress from exclusive breastfeeding to the introduction of complementary foods is the result of the international debate regarding the best age to introduce complementary foods into the diet of the breastfed human infant. After a list of definitions, four papers focus on:…

This report presents final 1998 data on U.S. deaths and death rates according to demographic and medical characteristics such as age, sex, race, Hispanic origin, marital status, educational attainment, injury at work, state of residence, and cause of death. Trends and patterns in general mortality, life expectancy, and infant and maternal…

Investigated were J. Piaget's ideas of the sensory motor stage of intelligence by determining whether six developmentally delayed children (aged 21 to 31 months) could use two different strategies appropriately to look for two different tokens. (Author/DB)

Report from the Anglo-American conference of sixty scientists at Wycombe, England. (RJ)

Discussed is the prenatal diagnosis of a variety of fetal disease states or malformations as related to maternal infections. (DB)

Presented is a statement by the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness on control of gonococcal ophthalmia neonatorum (newborn blindness due to maternal gonococcal infection). (DB)

Based upon a paper presented at the American Psychological Association, Miami Beach, 1970. (Editor)

Findings are discussed in an evolutionary context, and with reference to the popular belief that to respond to his cries spoils'' a baby. (Authors)