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Santa Barbara City Dept. of Public Works, CA. Div. of Transportation. – 1975
This paper reports on a Santa Barbara, California study to determine the need for establishing a minimum age for bicyclists using the public roadways, examining the proposition that children below a certain age are developmentally unable to perform safely in traffic. Data on the disproportionate incidence of accident involvement among young…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Age Groups, Behavior Patterns, Bicycling
Dusewicz, Russell A.; O'Connell, Mary Ann – 1973
The program activities, curriculum, and evaluation of the Pennsylvania Research in Infant Development and Education (PRIDE) Project are described in this report. The project is an educational effort to accelerate the development of children, 12-52 months of age, by providing developmentally enriching experiences in a controlled environment which…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education
Askins, Billy E.; And Others – 1975
An intervention program for 3, 4, and 5-year-old "high risk" (of low birth weight and with various handicaps) Spanish American children, REPSAC aims at providing successful experiences using the concept of responsive environment in English and Spanish language development and in improving cognitive and affective development. During…
Descriptors: Academically Handicapped, Bilingual Education, Early Childhood Education, Educationally Disadvantaged
Dillon, David – 1975
This study focuses on the semantic development of individual lexical items, as viewed from a semantic features perspective. It involves four narrow semantic domains, a sample of elementary school-children and their teachers, and two native language groups, English and Spanish. Semantic development is studied through the process of equivalence…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students
Robeck, Mildred C. – 1975
Some very practical questions about how children learn the first language compel us to study brain functions and how these functions evolve. They also bring the studies of linguistics and neurology together. The purpose of this paper is to relate some of the research that describes language acquisition with the research about the early development…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education
Lavatelli, Celia Stendler; Stendler, Faith – 1972
Some of the major changes that have influenced the field of child development since the last edition (1964) are presented in this edition. The book is divided into six parts, each with an introduction that summarizes what is important in the various domains of child development. Part One, The Grand Systems, is intended to give the reader a solid…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Books, Child Development, Cognitive Development
Rosenblatt, Louise M. – 1968
The main concern of this book on the teaching of literature is the complex dynamics of personal responses to reading. The first part details some of the problems of the teacher and the student in approaching the literary experience. Part 2 takes up the necessary background and setting for spontaneous reactions to literature, the effects of the…
Descriptors: Emotional Experience, English Instruction, Environmental Influences, Interests
Hillery, Milton C.; And Others – 1969
The purpose of the study was to describe ways in which disadvantaged children differ from their more advantaged peers in the areas of cognitive and affective developmental patterns, and to use this description to restructure curricular experiences for disadvantaged children. Five groups of approximately 30 preschool children each were tested three…
Descriptors: Advantaged, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Compensatory Education
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Silva, Fred – The English Record, 1969
The English teacher's broad interdisciplinary awareness and his training in critical analysis and communication through symbols prepare him to develop, with his students, evaluative criteria and analytical techniques for film study. Crucial to teaching film courses or units is his knowledge of how a film achieves its objectives through uniquely…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Communications, Course Content, English Curriculum, English Instruction
Rainey, Ernestine W. – 1972
Presented is a language development program consisting of 30 mini-units to be used as the first formal daily activity with 5-year-old, educable, developmentally handicapped or environmentally disadvantaged children. It is explained that the required technique includes teacher questioning of one child, an elicited complete sentence response from…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Class Activities, Developmental Disabilities, Disadvantaged Youth
Schevill, Helen Shaner – 1973
This report investigates perceptual functioning in the kindergarten first-grade period for slow- and average-maturing children. Two sets of auditory and visual tasks were devised: (1) identifying the first of an ordered pair of lights or tones when speed of presentation was a factor, and (2) categorizing each stimulus signal either by a uni- or…
Descriptors: Auditory Tests, Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education, Grade Equivalent Scores
Ellis, Ronald S. – 1975
Evaluated was the Summer Pre-Placement Program for Severely Multihandicapped Blind Children, designed to provide individualized programs for improving the performance of 16 children (4-11 years old) in the following areas--communication skills, vision training, psychomotor and perceptual training, social development, ambulation, self-dependence,…
Descriptors: Children, Communication Skills, Exceptional Child Research, Individualized Programs
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Sprafkin, Joyce; And Others – Journal of Special Education, 1988
Twenty-one emotionally disturbed elementary grade children completed a television viewing skills curriculum. Results of the intervention found that the subjects made significantly more accurate reality-fantasy discriminations concerning television program content than a control group; however, the curriculum was not effective in increasing…
Descriptors: Childrens Television, Critical Thinking, Elementary Education, Emotional Disturbances
Bremner, Gavin, Ed.; Slater, Alan, Ed.; Butterworth, George, Ed. – 1997
Noting that the last 30 years have seen enormous increases in the understanding of infancy, this book examines the current state of knowledge regarding infant development. The book's contents stem from meetings of the British Infancy Research Group. Although the book was intended for advanced undergraduates, it would also be useful for advanced…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Emotional Development, Infant Behavior
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Cox, Maureen V.; Ralph, Matt Lambon – Educational Psychology, 1996
Presents the results of a study where five-, seven-, and nine-year olds were asked to draw three figures: one standing still and facing them, one standing still in profile, and one running in profile. Half drew from imagination and half drew from models. Discusses the differences between the efforts. (MJP)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Art Expression, Body Image
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