The Carterville and Calhoun centers are representative of the 6 local child development programs in rural northwest Georgia. The day care centers are for the children of working mothers. The outreach program provides workers who go into the homes to help nonworking mothers improve their child-rearing skills. (FF)

This program is designed for parents of children from birth to age 3 who are suspected of being hearing impaired; it focuses on teaching parents how to accelerate the children's listening skills and language development through the use of everyday household activities. (JA)

Identifies stages in a child's life (particularly low-income children) at which he might be "disadvantaged" or "advantaged" in relation to certain influences in his life at that time, and argues that the child experiences the most critical influences before the school receives him.

Even though we lack definitive research evidence concerning television's effects upon children the pervasiveness of television and its fascination for children suggest that it is possible to use this component of our culture consciously in an effort to benefit children. (Author/JM)

Examines the effect of different training methods on perceptual learning of impulsive children. A matching to sample method (M), and a differentiation method (D) were used. Data indicated that Ss receiving D training learned to process features distinguishing stimuli; whereas, Ss receiving M training showed no preference for a particular mode of…

Presents the contributions that observational methodology is making in the evaluation of early childhood programs. (Author/RK)

Author suggests ways in which parents and teachers can assist their children with early experience in sensory perception of the natural environment. (Author/RK)

Presents the biography of Clarence C. Birchard, a music and textbook publisher, who published The Laurel Song Book, which was instrumental in introducing children to contemporary American music. Outlines the variety of contributions Birchard made toward music development. (RK)

Discusses the power of early childhood education to overcome longstanding social, psychological, and economic problems. (Author/RK)

In this paper movement (human movement) is being accepted as the content of physical education, the substance with which all experiences are designed. This assumption is fairly conclusively accepted where programs for young children are concerned. (Author)

Article takes a critical look at several of the approaches that have been developed to assess children's progress. Testing, they say, is not sufficient as a method of evaluation. (Author/RK)

Deals with pre and post-natal malnutrition and its possible influence on the child, focusing on these points: How wide-spread and severe is the malnutrition? What might be the effects of the malnutrition at certain critical points in development? (Author/JM)

Psychological and educational correlates of prematurity in children during four periods, the last at 7 years of age, were assessed as part of a prospective longitudinal study of 241 infants classified by birth weight, gestational age, and sex to determine later functioning in school. (Author/MC)