Consistent with findings that infants respond to the orientation of a visual stimulus in a categorical-like manner, data obtained from two- and three-month-old infants viewing horizontal/vertical, non-mirror-image oblique, and mirror-image oblique stimulus pairs indicate that elements of oblique/oblique stimulus pairs were more frequently confused…

In a study involving two sets of twin infants, with one of each pair handicapped, microanalyses of several aspects of mother-infant free-play sessions showed that handicapped infants emitted fewer object-directed behaviors, had fewer instances in which their leads were followed, and spent relatively little time in joint attention with mother.…

Discussion focuses on the application of empathetic reciprocity, in which decisions are viewed from the disabled person's perspective, to three issues: the fix-it approach in early intervention, the pathological focus on the disabled child's impact on the family, and the treatment of newborns with disabilities. (CL)

Focuses on whether 9- and 12-month-old infants understand that an object has been deleted from its initial hiding place as part of its displacement to a new location. (Author/NH)

Compares attachment relationships of infants at 12 months to their visual self-recognition at both 18 and 24 months. Individual differences in early attachment relations were related to later self-recognition. In particular, insecurely attached infants showed a trend toward earlier self-recognition than did securely attached infants. (Author/NH)

Based on interviews with 12 parents of visually handicapped children, the article describes strangers' responses to their child. The sequence and content of three stages of interaction between strangers and visually impaired infants and their mothers are described along with effects of these encounters on mothers. (CL)

A total of 20 infants either five or seven months of age viewed computer-generated random-lot displays in which accretion and deletion of texture provided the only information for contours. Infants of both age groups showed significant preferences to reach for the apparently nearer regions in the displays. (Author/RH)

Presents dimensions that serve as a background for counselors to assist families in considering options related to disabled infants. Dimensions include the meaning of life, cost to benefit ratio, medical options, legal precedent, and a theological perspective. This issue is related to counseling practice through counselor ethics and values.…

Male and female nonparent adults rated tape-recordings of initial, middle, and final 10-second segments of pain and hunger cries on four 7-point Likert-type scale items describing how urgent, arousing, aversive, and sick cry segments sounded. Results suggest that different segments of cries resulting from the same stimulus provide different…

Seventy-five normal primipatous mothers less than 20 years old were videotaped with their normal infants for 10 minutes during 3 days following birth. No relationship was found between adolescent maternal age and the count of maternal behaviors. (Author/CL)

Results of a comparative study of speech-like vocalizations of a deaf infant and 11 hearing infants indicated that from eight to 13 months, the deaf subject differed strikingly from hearing infants of comparable age. The topography of the deaf infant's vocalizations resembled that of four- to six-month-old hearing infants. (Author/CL)

The article examines the importance of early childhood experiences with books as toys and the relationship of book play to reading. Selected bibliographies for infants and toddlers as well as guidelines for introducing books to infants and enhancing infant and toddler development are presented. (Author/CL)

A go/no-go conditioned head-turn paradigm was used to examine the abilities of 6- and 12-month-olds to discriminate changes in temporal grouping and their perception of absolute and relative timing information when listening to patterns of white-noise bursts. (Author/RH)

Analyzes the intentionality of conceptually mediated perception and explicates a conception of immediate perception and its intentionality. The model of immediate perception is applied to studies of infant perceptual capacities in the first months of life. Prefigurations of the categories of object, identity, existence, permanence, and…

The influence of referent type (Objects vs. Actions) and within-category referent relationships (functionally similar vs. perceptually similar) upon acquisition of lexical concepts by 12 infants were examined. Ss acquired object words and concepts in greater numbers than action words and concepts, suggestive of differences in the underlying…