Parent and child living centers offer a program to improve parenting skills with areas of learning including child growth and development, family management, home care and repair, and personal growth and development. (MM)

Reports on children's mastery of one type of sentence structure which is derivationally complex and which has been shown to be psychologically complex as well, given the criteria of both comprehension and acceptability to the native speaker. (HOD)

American Medical Association, 535 N. Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60610. The developmental, psychological, and educational sequelae of chronic otitis media (a middle ear disease) occurring during the first 3 years of life were investigated in a group of children (ages 6-11 years) with educational difficulties. (Author/DLS)

The article describes an instrument--the Psychoeducational Profile (PEP)--that provides a comprehensive evaluation of developmental functioning and behavior, and discusses the utilization of such data in planning individualized educational programs for autistic children. (Author)

Argues that quality day care should be provided in a variety of forms to meet families' diverse needs. (CM)

The relation between museums and schools must be a two-way street, and if the necessary approaches to bring this about are not being made, it may be time to increase the incentives for such efforts. (Editor)

This paper explores the origins of tensions between families and schools and argues that one must learn to distinguish between positive and negative forms of dissonance. In addition, it looks at the special role of women as central figures in the socialization process. (Author/AM)

Findings from a study conducted by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University on the status of parent education indicate where parents and expectant parents acquired child-rearing information and how knowledgeable they are about child development. Suggestions for parent educators and implications for Extension staff contributions are…

Reviews literature dealing with children's understanding of economic concepts. Suggests that developers of economic education curriculum for elementary school should be aware of cognitive development and of children's informal economic learning from parents, the mass media, and interactions in economic behavior settings. (Author/DB)

A number of infantile nonverbal behaviors are listed that can be interpreted as signs of a child's fundamental psychosocial orientations to others during the first year. Ethological studies of child and adult nonverbal communication suggest a considerable degree of neoteny in the human sign system. (SW)

A discussion of the relationships, both biological and behavioral, among nutrition, population, and health in relation to government policy. Special emphasis is given to breast feeding and child survival. (BB)

Discusses traditional preschool programming for the normal child, the emerging definition of normal childhood, some instances of positive educational change, the changing conceptions of women's roles, and how a preschool child's daily program today differs from that of the 1950s preschool day. (RK)

An abridged version of the inaugural address delivered by Ms. Herzog on January 13, 1976. (SK)

The development of two children who learned to read Spanish before age two is traced. Both children soon became bilingual in English and Spanish. The process of teaching them to read is described. (CHK)