Presents an integrated clinical approach, based on a developmental, structuralist framework, to classify adaptive and pathological personality organizations and behaviors in infants and preschool children. (Author/DB)

This article provides a literature review on the consequences of adolescent childbearing on postnatal infant development. (DB)

Presents a model for the care of multiply handicapped children (from infancy to about age eight). TEMPO (Training, Evaluation, Home Management, and Parent Orientation) is a program designed to increase understanding of the multiply handicapped child and to develop a combined family-community support system to ensure the child a quality life. (PHR)

Two groups of children, 12 to 30 months (N=14) and 31 to 78 months (N=12), showing increased lead burden were compared to a sample matched for age, sex, and socioeconomic status but evincing no increased lead burden. For the younger children, significant deficits in maternal IQ and quality of the caregiving environment were associated with…

Sixty severely or profoundly handicapped young children in a residential treatment center were Ss in a modified time sampled observation study of social behavior, state, and physical context. Although system level changes in the institution's ecology did not appear to affect social interaction indices, the children's developmental ages were…

In a question-and-answer format Henry H. Krevor, Executive Director of the Appalachian Regional Commission, reports on the present status of the commission and the region and comments on prospects for the future. (Author/DS)

Argues that although meta-analysis makes an important contribution to summarizing attachment studies, it limits the conceptual understanding to simple causal models and ignores family systems models that could illuminate the development of secure and insecure attachment. Maintains that fathers' role in attachment and the impact of the quality of…

Mother/infant dyads (n=152) with substance-abusing histories were assessed for evidence of disruption of primary caregiving or neglect during the first 18 months of life. Women who were younger, were heroin users, had two or more children, had other children in foster care, and reported depressive symptoms were most likely to have had disruptive…

Describes the history of early childhood education in Jamaica and current trends. Considers the sponsorship of early childhood education and care programs; child care philosophy and policy; the variety of child care and education programs available, including Basic Schools, Infant Schools, and day care centers; teacher qualifications;…

This article describes a university-based training model for early intervention personnel in rural areas of Utah. The model uses an array of distance technologies including interactive television, Internet communications, CD-ROM, videotape, and traditional print material. Key decision-making points and the process of model development and delivery…

Analyzes monolingual Spanish- and German-speaking children's production of target consonant clusters at early stages of acquisition from a phonological representational perspective. At the beginning stages, target clusters are reduced to a single consonantal position, due to lack of branching of the syllable constituents. At later stages, cluster…

In 1943 the Kaiser Company opened two centers for the children of mothers working at its shipyards in Portland (Oregon). This nursery school program, an innovative wartime experiment in preschool and day care, was based on principles of respect for the children and their parents. (SLD)

This study investigated attention to and recognition of components in compound stimuli among infants and preschoolers. Oddity tasks with preschoolers and familiarization/novelty-preference tasks with infants demonstrated successful discrimination among stimuli components on basis of edge property information. Matching tasks with preschoolers and…

Presents a diary-and-videotape study of the production of phonological segments by a Spanish-English bilingual child. Results reveal a consistent separation of the phonological systems of the two languages from the earliest period, with minimal interference at later times. (17 references) (Author/CK)

This article describes the Higher Education Partnership Project, a project that involved collaboration with two tribal colleges and offered courses to students and professionals working with children with disabilities and their families. The program was successful in teaching critical competencies and building a local capacity for teacher…