Intended for home economics teachers, teacher educators, and supervisors, this bulletin describes consideration in organizing and conducting a group activity in which preschool children participate and home economics students observe. Sections cover: (1) purposes and objectives of an observation experience, (2) determining space and equipment…

The STAR System is a developmental guidance approach to be used with elementary school children in the 5th or 6th grades. Two basic purposes underlie STAR: to increase learning potential and to enhance personal growth and development. STAR refers to 4 basic skills: sensory, thinking, adapting, and revising. Major components of the 4 skills are:…

The guide offers numerous practical suggestions for training mentally retarded children in self care skills, and catalogs developmental characteristics of children from birth to a mental age of 11 years. Included are brief sections on the management of neurologically impaired children and mongoloid babies, the importance of speech stimulation, and…

Legislative alternatives for providing a mechanism within State government to plan and coordinate early childhood programs are presented and analyzed. The alternatives addressed are: (1) placing early childhood responsibility in an existing agency; (2) creating a new office of child development as an independent State agency; and (3) creating a…

Basic information that should be considered by a state when gathering data necessary to planning for child development programs, with emphasis on the five-year-old and under group, is provided. State assessment efforts are assumed to be comprised of at least four steps: (1) gathering the data, (2) assessing the data to determine needs, (3)…

The aim of this project was to conceptualize and map cognitive processes and structural aspects, working mostly from video tapes of children in relatively natural clinical interviews, play and school situations (laboratory work, etc.). A conception of cognitive structure and an over-all perspective on cognitive functioning, which differ…

Communicative relations among children and adolescents are considered from the concept of reciprocity (or perspective of others ) and its development. Research reveals that from the ages of two through four, and often through five also, the child's speech is primarily lacking in communicative message. It is found that the major difference in…

Four issues related to psychological development are discussed. These issues concern: (1) the criteria by which the separate levels, or structures, or stages of psychological development are to be identified; (2) the principle by means of which these configurations are to be ordered; (3) the nature of the transitions taking place between…

The study of children's group formation employs Piaget's cognitive-development theory along with ethological concepts and methods used in the naturalistic study of the social behavior of animals. It represents the first application of ethological ideal to a study of the child's conception of his social world, and focuses on his conceptions of the…

A handbook to serve as an outline for parent discussion sessions concerning four-year-old children is presented. It is divided into the following sections: Child-Growth and Development, Physical Development, Language Development, Learning Abilities, Children and Home Art-Activities, Reading To your Child, Suggested Good Books, Questions and…

This is a short assessment outline for use by non-clinicians in evaluating the development of young children. It usually requires 20-30 minutes to assess one child. It may be used periodically to evaluate changes, as a year-end summary, or as a means of communicating with others who have contacts with the child. Sections of the assessment deal…

The early education and development of the black child must involve his sense of who he is as a basic component of any services designed for him. This is most effectively achieved by those who care most, are most knowledgeable about his culture, are willing to learn about early human development, and are devoted to adapting all of these to each…

A study was conducted to examine social behavior by one-year-old boys over the course of a three-month playgroup experience. The "clusters" chosen for examination consisted of temporary groups (often less than a minute) the toddlers formed to focus on a single activity. Socially directed behavior is defined here as vocalizing, laughing and…

Written as a guide for parents of preschool visually handicapped children, the booklet provides background information and some basic facts thought to be necessary to help the child grow into a happy, well-rounded and successful adult. Guidelines are presented concerning the following: the need for positive parental attitudes toward the young…

Interviews were conducted with 18 key management decision makers at the national level of the Parent and Child Center (PCC) program, and a wide variety of relevant providers and consumers of management information of the local level of the program. The purpose of the study was to develop recommendations for a management information system (MIS)…