Children's literature provides enjoyment, entertainment, creativity, understanding of self, and the ability to reason. In reading a book aloud, the teacher should encourage children to ask questions and to relate incidents that have happened to them that parallel those in the book. Unfamiliar words can be discussed by using a beginning dictionary…

Teacher reinforcement of indoor play equipment utilization was employed as a procedure to increase the peer social interaction of an asocial four-year-old female child. Touching peers, using peers' names, verbalizations, solitary or parallel manipulation, cooperative construction, and cooperative thematic play were dependent variables. Treatment…

This paper indicates underlying philosophic assumptions which are compatible with the behavior analysis approach to child development. Four issues taken into consideration are (a) biology and environment, (b) structure and function, (c) traits and situations, and (d) mechanistic and organismic approaches to development. The following ideas…

This pilot study trained parents in behavior modification techniques and attempted to evaluate the impact of this training on the rate of cognitive, linguistic and social development in infants. A second goal was to identify significant areas in infant development which might be influenced by the teaching strategies used. Subjects were four…

This study examines patterns of mother/child verbal interactions during task performance for differences related to the sex and locus of control (LOC) of the child. Subjects were 40 pairs of white, middle-class mothers and their children. The children--20 boys and 20 girls--were divided equally among first- and later-born 4- and 5-year olds. The…

This study investigates the development of listener skills during childhood, and the effects of introducing a brief plan for effective listening on children's listener performances. The subjects were 96 children, 24 at each of four ages (four, six, eight, and ten years) who were asked to play the role of listener in a referential communication…

The nature of the relationship between the handicapped child's stimulus characteristics and the expectation held for that child by child care professionals provided the focus of this study. One hundred and twenty subjects viewed photographic slides of 30 children with differing facial characteristics and estimated the capabilities of the…

The efficacy of training parents as behavior modifiers of problem behaviors displayed by their seven-year-old severely retarded son was investigated in relationship to targeted problem behaviors including throwing objects, refusing to comply with parental commands, and refusing to sit in a chair at a table. In order to deal with the child's…

In this Child Development Associate (CDA) training module, the trainee is provided with basic concepts of child development. The identity, socialization and sense of self worth of the child are emphasized. Techniques for observing the behavior of 3- to 5-year-old children are indicated. As a result, the trainee can learn how to make and maintain,…

This learning activities package is designed to allow students to do self-concept activities on their own without any outside pressures. Each activity is a separate exercise which may be used as follow-up to a major group activity or a complete activity on its own. A wide range of exercise types is supplied, including self-evaluation…

The described teacher inservice education program is designed for elementary school teachers and administrators who are interested in child development in relation to individually guided education. The scope and sequencing of topics in the program are outlined, and the activities and resources involved are described. Ordering information for…

The project discussed in this report attempts to establish, within a real school setting, a comprehensive and viable way of determining and reporting the growth and development of kindergarten and primary grade children in the public school. The project was developed by a steering committee of faculty members from the Clayton School District of…

This publication is one of a continuing series entitled Home Economics Research Abstracts, which annually compiles abstracts of masters theses and doctoral dissertations completed in graduate schools of home economics. These 115 abstracts of Family Relations and Child Development research, completed in 1967, were submitted by 34 graduate schools.…

A series of educational seminars was held in New Haven, Connecticut by a group of two psychiatrists and eight principals. These meetings were organized following a community crisis over racial balancing of the public schools. It was felt that an inter-professional collaboration would be a fruitful means of finding educational solutions to…

A Child Development Center (CDC) is said to rest on five basic tenets--(1) a team approach, (2) individual and small group methods, (3) emphasis on a total developmental setting, (4) the great significance of the early years of childhood, and (5) the concept of continuity in experience and development. A CDC, and especially one serving the…