Approximately 1,500 published and unpublished books and articles are listed in this bibliography on the broad area of observational learning in children which includes modeling, imitation, and vicarious conditioning. The majority of sources listed are dated from the 1960's and 1970's although some date as far back as the 1930's. Research in such…

Presented for preschool teachers are guidelines for meeting the needs of speech and language delayed children. Information is provided on the following topics: language development theory, the difference between speech and language, normal speech and language development (including a chart of language milestones from birth to 6 years), disorders…

This document presents two measures used by the Parent-Child Early Education Program of the Ferguson-Florrisant School District in Missouri for identifying preschool children with special behavior problems. The first measure, My Preschool Child, is a checklist to be filled out by the parent on the child's personal and social development, language…

This symposium report on current child development research in Germany includes abstracts from papers presented at the biennial meeting of SRCD, April 1975, and a short overview of the history and present status of developmental research and training in Germany. According to this overview, developmental theory and empirical research, which had…

A developmental model of literacy based on language and cognitive skills is presented in this paper. Two independent learning strands suggested as major factors in achieving literacy are learning to understand language by eye (reading) as skillfully as one can understand language by ear (auding) and learning to use the printed medium for literacy…

Designed to provide a variety of prescriptions for supplementing the reading program through reinforcement of specific skills, this book presents 100 reading activities in the following areas: motivation, auditory discrimination, word analysis, vocabulary, and comprehension. For each activity an objective is stated, materials are listed, and a…

Sometimes descriptions of known facts about a language fail to be explanatory in a satisfying way, because they ignore parallelisms in related languages, including chronologically earlier stages of the same language. This article examines several Romance languages and dialects in terms of similarities in morphological evolutionary development.…

This paper discusses language development in relation to social development, emphasizing the importance of the question-answer format in the development of communicative abilities. A 5-year-old girl's dysfunctional speech behavior is presented as an example of social interaction difficulties resulting from a failure in "social cognition." The…

This book contains 17 chapters dealing with the development of language skills at the elementary level: "The Language Arts, Language, and Linguistics,""Dialect, Grammar, and Usage: Some Considerations,""Planning for Instruction in the Language Arts,""Language Learning and Beginning Language Arts Instruction,""Instructional Attention to…

This paper discusses Lee and Canter's procedure for assessing child language development as an example of how psycholinguistics is beginning to enter the language clinic. The procedure includes recording and transcribing examples of children's sentences, then scoring them to yield a Developmental Sentence Score (DDS). This procedure was compared…

The influence on child language of the role of the child, and his conversational partners, was studied at the University of Washington Developmental Psychology Laboratory Preschool. Seven lessons were recorded, three child-led sessions and four adult-led sessions. The group composition varied daily but six children to be studied were included in…

Bilingual classes in grades K-5 in the San Marcos and Harlandale (Texas) school districts comprise this bilingual education program. Most of the pupils come from Spanish-speaking homes with low socioeconomic-educational background; however, a certain proportion of the San Marcos pupils are Anglos. Program objectives include preventing educational…

This evaluative report of a Head Start program discusses gains in academic achievement and social development of 248 preschool children as measured by standardized tests, parent questionnaires, and staff surveys. A pre- and postadministration of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) was used as a basis for the measurement of student gains…

In the fall of 1972 the Research Foundation of the National Council of Teachers of English decided to fund the Research Instruments Project (TRIP), a project designed to collect and evaluate measurement instruments in reading, language development, teacher competency, standard English as a second language or dialect, literature, writing,…

This pamphlet describes ways for children and caregivers to plan, cook, and eat together, blending practical health suggestions with sound educational philosophy. The ideas and concepts children can learn from cooking are outlined (e.g. motor skills, language, mathematics, executive abilities, etc.), and the importance of eating with children,…