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Lindsay, Jeanne – 1977
This study guide for pregnant minors consists of approximately 750 questions covering the content of 15 books about pregnancy and babies. (RH)
Descriptors: Birth, Child Rearing, Contraception, Infants
Greenspan, Stanley I.; Lourie, Reginald S. – 1979
This paper applies a developmental structuralist approach to the classification of adaptive and pathologic personality organizations and behavior in infancy and early childhood, and it discusses implications of this approach for preventive intervention. In general, as development proceeds, the structural capacity of the developing infant and child…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Attachment Behavior, Child Development, Developmental Stages
PDF pending restorationWHITE, BURTON L. – 1966
SEVERAL STUDIES ON SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTIONS IN INFANTS WERE REPORTED. DAY-TO-DAY OBSERVATIONS WERE MADE OF INSTITUTIONALIZED INFANTS IN AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT BASELINE DATA ON ADAPTIVE ABILITIES IN CHILDREN. THE EVOLUTION OF FUNDAMENTAL SENSORIMOTOR SKILLS WAS TRACED TO PROVIDE CLUES FOR THE STUDY OF ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS ON THE DEVELOPMENTAL…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Psychology, Child Rearing, Early Childhood Education
Download full textO'Connell, Joanne Curry; Farran, Dale C. – 1980
This study supports the claim that environmental factors in early intervention programs can positively affect the development of early communicative behaviors in infants. A sample of 20-month-old infants from low socioeconomic backgrounds and at risk for mental retardation was randomly divided into a day care intervention group and a control…
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Day Care
Widerstrom, Anne – 1980
A study was undertaken to explore the relationship of mothers' language to infant development in terms of the infants' development of sensorimotor intelligence. Specifically, the study chronicled the infants' advances in sensorimotor development from J. Piaget's Stage II to Stage III as a possible explanation for changes in maternal language. It…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages
Prinz, Philip M.; Prinz, Elisabeth A. – 1979
A study was conducted of the language development of a hearing child whose mother was deaf and communicated only in sign and whose father was hearing and communicated in both sign and oral language. Results showed similarities in development between the two modalities as well as similarity between development in two separate modalities and two…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language)
Arnold, Justine; Grogan, Jane, Ed. – 1980
This instructional handbook is one of a series of ten packets designed to form a comprehensive course in nutrition for secondary students. This unit considers the fact that eating habits developed early in life have a lifetime effect on health. Special emphasis is placed on the effect of these early habits on pregnancy, adolescence, infancy and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Dietetics, Eating Habits, Family Environment
Loeser, Gregory J.; And Others – 1974
Presented is a language stimulation curriculum guide designed for severely mentally retarded institutionalized persons. Pre- and post-assessments and behavioral objectives with teaching suggestions are provided for the following curriculum areas: early motor development (such as sitting, crawling, and walking skills); adaptive skills (including…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Curriculum, Daily Living Skills, Elementary Secondary Education
Senate Committee of Canada (Ontario). Standing Senate Committee on Health, Welfare and Science. – 1978
Experiences in prenatal life and early childhood that may cause personality disorders or criminal behavior in later life are examined in these proceedings of the Subcommittee on Childhood Experiences as Causes of Criminal Behavior of the Standing Committee on Health, Welfare and Science. This issue, the eighteenth in a series of 19 hearings dating…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Antisocial Behavior, Birth, Early Experience
Hutinger, Patricia L.; And Others – 1977
The first of 16 documents on the Macomb (Illinois) 0-3 Regional Project describes the development and operation of a home based rural child-parent service for families of handicapped and high risk children. The child development specialist organizes sharing centers where parents come together to learn about new Piagetian-based play activities and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Handicapped Children, Home Programs, Infants
Yahraes, Herbert – 1978
Findings from research investigating the development of competence in young children are summarized in this pamphlet. Characteristics of the competent 6-year-old, derived from the systematic observation of more than 100 children in various settings over a two-year period, are listed. A study aimed at identifying the kinds of experiences regularly…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Competence, Curiosity
Painter, Genevieve – 1967
Based on the belief that structured preschool activities aid in the development of disadvantaged children, this study attempted (1) to evolve a tutorial program to accelerate spontaneous development in disadvantaged children and prevent cognitive and language deficits, and (2) to assess growth of the infant's cognitive and language development…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Control Groups, Disadvantaged
Papousek, Hanus – 1966
Studies on learning in infants show that in infancy every month of life represents a new level of learning. The functional state of the central nervous system can be influenced by physiological factors which cause fluctuating changes in functions important for learning. Once a stimulus becomes a conditioned signal, it acquires strong power in…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Cognitive Development, Infants, Learning Processes
Ben-Porath, Yoram – 1976
This paper reviews issues pertaining to the relationship between child mortality and fertility and examines the fertility-mortality relationship of women who emigrated to Israel from various countries in Asia, Africa, and Europe and continued child bearing in Israel. Data from the 1961 Israel census of population is used. Among issues addressed in…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Birth Rate, Census Figures, Data Analysis
Rubin, Rosalyn A.; Balow, Bruce – 1975
This paper presents a study of the relationship between scores on the Bayley measures of mental and motor development administered at 8 months of age and performance on measures of cognitive development and school achievement administered at ages 4, 5, 6, and 7. Also studied are changes in this relationship which occur when children with extreme…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Ability, Elementary School Students, Infants
