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Download full textBallangee, Judith K., Ed. – 1972
Established by the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965, the Appalachian Regional Commission has as its overall goal the economic and social development of all of West Virginia and parts of Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. The program…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Area Studies, Child Development, Developmental Programs
Feshbach, Norma D. – 1972
Implications of the use and misuse of physical punishment in the socialization and training of children is the subject of this discussion. This discussion deals primarily with the implications of the use by parents of physical pain as a child-rearing technique by which they attempt to implement their goals for their children, whether it be the…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Change, Behavioral Objectives, Child Development
Berg, Paul C., Ed.; George, John E., Ed. – 1968
The three papers presented in this publication examines in depth the thought and practices that currently prevail in the specialized areas of reading and concept attainment. Two of the papers deal with concept learning and the transformation of this knowledge into instructional guidelines. The third paper considers the importance of concept…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Associative Learning, Child Development, Concept Formation
1972
This booklet identifies environments for pre-school learning. Each page may serve as a poster, a reminder of activities, or as a starting point for a training session. It includes an indoor and an outdoor section. The indoor section describes an art area, a music area, and a quiet area, a housekeeping area, free space for floor play, and a science…
Descriptors: Child Development Centers, Childhood Needs, Costs, Curriculum
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1972
The result of the work of a special task force, the design for an early childhood education program for California is given which formulates goals, performance objectives, program content standards, and an evaluation system for an overall articulated program. Chapters are presented on: the rationale for change; parent-community involvement;…
Descriptors: Child Development, Community Cooperation, Early Childhood Education, Environmental Influences
Bricker, Diane; Bricker, William – 1971
The report summarizes the first year of the Toddler Research and Intervention Project, a research program to devise and evaluate different aspects of educational intervention with children, ages 1-4 years, with moderate to severe development problems (primarily mental retardation). Described are the children who composed the intervention group,…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Exceptional Child Research
Bureau of Libraries and Educational Technology (DHEW/OE), Washington, DC. – 1970
This annotated bibliography is a highly selective list of materials published in the last five years on the major problems, trends, methodologies and achievements in the field of child development. It contains annotated references to approximately 500 books, periodicals, technical reports, government documents, legislative materials, professional…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Child Development, Child Labor, Child Welfare
Saunders, Minta M.; Keister, Mary Elizabeth – 1969
This proposal suggests researching the possibilities of offering experiences with surroundings--space, forms, colors, and materials--to many children at any early age. The design for such a setting would provide children with the unique advantage of developing within themselves a sympathy for basic forms, natural materials, and primary colors and…
Descriptors: Child Development, Childhood Interests, Costs, Creative Development
Reese, Clyde; Morrow, Robert O. – 1971
In a study of preschool child development programs, the purposes were two-fold: (1) to determine the effects of socioeconomic mix upon the cognitive, social, and language development of disadvantaged children, and (2) to determine the relative effects of two percentages of socioeconomic mix upon the cognitive, social, and language development of…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Economic Factors
1972
In an address to local, state, regional, and national groups involved with child care, characteristics of some of the programs are explained in an effort to develop a broad based national coalition for a system of universally available child care. Head Start, Title IV-A of the Social Security Act (amended) day care, and church-related day care…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Development, Childhood Needs, Day Care
Elardo, Richard, E.; Pagan, Betty, Ed. – 1972
These proceedings of the first annual SACUS workshop on infant day care contain the papers presented at the conference, plus an appendix--Developmental Objectives for Infants and Toddlers. The papers are: "Infant Day Care--Fads, Facts, and Fancies" by Bettye M. Caldwell; "Family Day Care""A Broad Perspective" by Malcolm S. Host; "Getting…
Descriptors: Child Care Occupations, Child Development, Day Care, Early Experience
O'HARE, SISTER G. – 1966
A SPECIAL TRAINING PROGRAM IN SIZE DISCRIMINATION WAS STUDIED AS A MEANS FOR TEACHING REGULAR TRISOMIC MONGOLOIDS. BASED UPON THE SUCCESS OF THIS PROGRAM, A FURTHER ASSESSMENT WAS MADE AS TO ACQUIRED SIZE DISCRIMINATION ABILITY OF SUCH PERSONS WHEN TRANSFERRED TO OTHER LEARNING TASKS WITH PICTORIAL MATERIALS AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECTS. THE…
Descriptors: Child Development, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Discriminant Analysis
Brown, Ann L.; And Others – 1977
Two experiments concerned with memory and comprehension of prose passages were conducted with children from second through seventh grade. In both experiments the major variable was the provision of appropriate frameworks for comprehending ambiguous sections of the passages. In the initial experiment, recognition of theme-congruent and…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Child Development, Comprehension, Context Clues
Jordan-Marsh, Maryalice; Fauvre, Mary – 1976
Steps involved in developing a high quality child development program are outlined and discussed briefly. They are: (1) determining what kind of program to provide (information and referral, family-centered, community-centered or a combination); (2) establishing priorities (a priority checklist is included); (3) identifying existing resources in…
Descriptors: Child Development Centers, Community Resources, Community Services, Early Childhood Education
Barber, Lucie W.
The seven Barber Scales of Self-Regard were developed to provide instruments for assessing the levels of development for individual children. It has been a consistent finding in three field tests of the Self-Regard Scales that age and scale points are related. However, it has also been a consistent finding that the range of scale points for any…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Individual Differences, Mothers
