The second of a three volume report on a University of Kansas approach to developing quantitative measures of motor and perceptual motor functioning in nonhandicapped and severely/multiply handicapped infants and young children presents interobserver reliability results from the measures described in volume 1. Some studies also include a limited…

First listing and discussing optimal features of playthings for early childhood education, this reference book subsequently describes play activities and equipment appropriate for infant and toddler day care programs as well as specially designed equipment for exceptional children. A chart indicating age-appropriate play and classroom equipment…

The final report documents accomplishments of a 3 year outreach service to programs serving handicapped preschool children. The program includes four basic components: a preschool screening program, a parent initiated and maintained parent education group, an in home teaching program working with high risk or handicapped children from birth to 8…

The author discusses the role of perceptual training in the education of young perceptually handicapped children. Distinctions are drawn between perception and awareness, and the necessity of stimulation to encourage infant and child learning is emphasized. Commonalities between perception and learning are underscored. The author stresses that…

A case study of the period of repetitive babbling in one Dutch infant is reported. Repetitive babbling is seen as a systematic and continuous process, during which the child is applying certain strategies in order to form concepts concerning the possibilities of his or her articulatory apparatus. Strategies identified are: (1) variation…

The paper describes the Family, Infant and Toddler (FIT) Project, designed to provide educational and supportive services to rural middle Tennessee families with young mentally retarded children. Noted are the project background (including sporadic outreach efforts) and conceptual orientation, and an ecological perspective which stresses the role…

The final report of project TEACH, a project to identify and serve handicapped infants and preschoolers in Alaska, presents the program accomplishments organized by specific objectives within five major goals. The five goals are as follows (sample accomplishments within parentheses): to stimulate infant learning to the fullest extent (25 of 27…

The objectives of this study were (1) to observe and describe the social quality and the cognitive type of spontaneous play exhibited in a group of 20 children in a child care setting during two age periods, toddler (14-30 months) and preschool (30-48 months), and (2) to chart the developmental trends using a model of play complexity derived from…

This report focuses on electronic fetal monitoring (EFM)--a technology that was developed during the 1960s and has rapidly spread into use in clinical obstetrics. The report includes a review of the extensive published literature on EFM and related subjects. It also contains original calculations concerning the technique's specificity and…

The effects of infant responsiveness and marital satisfaction on parent-infant reciprocity in face-to-face interactions are examined in this study. Thirty-two middle to upper-middle class couples attending LaMaze classes were recruited for the study. There were equal numbers of male and female infants. When the infants were approximately three…

The relationship between aspects of mother-infant interactional behavior (vocalization, smiles, mutual eye contact, and facing position) and the infant's developmental level was investigated through both observation and intervention efforts. A sample of 33 primiparous mothers (mean CA of 22 years) from low income families and their infants (mean…

This paper presents an overview of the educational principles of Friedrich Froebel and indicates how the Froebelian approach was introduced into Israel. The modern aspects of Froebel's ideas are emphasized as well as scientistic distortions in their implementation. Recommendations to practitioners for improving early childhood education are…

Intended for parents of children with speech problems, the booklet describes specific types of speech disorders and provides suggestions for stimulating improved speech. The following types of speech disorders are addressed: delayed speech, articulation, stuttering, and hearing disorders. The developmental sequence of language is discussed, and a…

This paper discusses the role of attention to uncertainty in mediating the transition from sensorimotor activity to language. It is proposed that language from the very beginning is used to resolve uncertainty by selectively marking points of change, deviation from the familiar or choice from among alternatives. Several research findings are…

A cognitive, theory-based assessment-intervention model of social-communicative development and research to validate the model are described in this document. The model is neo-Piagetian in that it assumes that social-communicative skills are structured by cognitive skills and that these skills follow a five level sequence of stages. The assessment…