An investigation of the life experiences and attitudes of homosexual women with only-child status reveals that their emotional and social development is less favorable than that of homosexual women who had siblings. Only-child status is an important variable in understanding child development. (Author/CS)

Follows changes in children's writing from the first through fourth grade, presenting case study data that show how children's writing shifts from play to craft. (GT)

Eighty-seven percent of a cohort of 299 low birthweight infants were examined at age 6 2/3 years, together with 111 control children. Primary school problems were related to social grade, early intrauterine insult, sex, postnatal complications, and neurological and developmental status in the infant's first year. Journal Availability: J. B.…

Describes a college-level psychology course based on using simulation techniques to teach graduate students about child development. Topics discussed include course description, objectives, activities, evaluation methods, and a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of the simulation approach. (Author/DB)

Expresses concern that objectives for early childhood education and child care are not being met because specialized services for children have become more and more divided from each other. (Author/DB)

The impact of movement experiences on cognitive functions and academic achievement on students, in particular the learning-disabled, is described. Cognitive processes involved in the acquisition of motor skills and intellectual abilities are detailed. (CJ)

Cultural deprivation has been found to affect the acquisition, development, and utilization of language for the child. The influences of environmental variables on language patterns are discussed as a series of conditioned responses reinforced in the developmental process. (Author)

The column examines five university based child development centers and/or child study clinics which work with handicapped children. (PHR)

Provides accounts of child responses to incompletely drawn objects in illustrations in children's books. (HOD)

Father role in infancy was examined through a comparison of the stimulus responses of 27 infants reared by their mothers in single-parent families with the stimulus responses of 28 infants in father-present families. (CM)

Proposes that the whole notion of equating time in a classroom with the quality of education is a semantic fiction; describes three perspectives on the learning process in children that provide an alternative to the "fixed schedule" metaphor. (GT)

Teachers have more opportunities than other therapists to strengthen children's self-concepts and to promote mental health in students. (JD)

Criticizes accepted premises regarding family influence on the child: (1) particular external conditions are inevitably associated with fixed consequences for all children; (2) some psychological structures created by early experience are stable over time; and (3) the mother-infant bond is the primary determinant of the child's future…

The results of parent and community involvement in early childhood education in a curriculum of caring are commented on in relation to Urie Bronfenbrenner's remarks about family and society. (JMF)

Does not support Piaget's interpretations that mature moral judgment, dependent upon a decentered thought structure, develops around the ages of eight and nine. (RL)