Argues that first language acquisition is essentially based on a process very similar to classical conditioning. (TO)

There are about 70 million children between the ages of 2 and 6 in India and their first problem is to survive. For those who do survive, services supported by the Government and a large number of private institutions operate especially in the field of education. A new approach based on low-cost and integrated services is taking shape. (Author/RJ)

Two theoretical models of visual attention and contingent learning were presented to provide a framework for the consideration of how observed individual differences in infant behavior may interact with nonsocial stimuli and caretaker-mediated stimuli to influence the individual's development of patterns of visual attention and contingency…

Describes the career of nurse-midwife, a modern profession requiring thorough training in the latest techniques of high quality infant and maternal care. (JM)

The most impressive class difference in one-year-old infants revealed by this study was that lower-class infants vocalized considerably less in the playroom than did middle-class infants. (Authors)

Consistently over the three test situations, initial left-handedness' gives way during the third quarter of the first year to right-hand dominance. The way in which the shift occurs lends support to a maturational, rather than a learning or social pressure explanation of lateral asymmetry. (Author/CB)

Article is concerned principally with the early acquisition of skills relating to the manipulation of things, though perforce the role of certain social skills is treated in the interest of explicating that topic. (Author/CB)

Interview with Mrs. Dorothy Fulcher, a teacher at the Oakland, California Parent and Child Center (PCC). Describes the Center's facility for infants. (DS)