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Relations between Semantic and Cognitive Development in the One-Word Stage: The Specificity Hypothesis.
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Gopnik, Alison; Meltzoff, Andrew N. – Child Development, 1986
Compares two types of semantic development (the acquisition of disappearance words and success-failure words) to performance on two types of cognitive tasks (object-permanence and means-ends tasks) among infants. (HOD)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Developmental Stages
Transitions in Representational Ability: Infants' Verbal, Vocal, and Action Imitation during the Second Year.
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Masur, Elise Frank – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1993
Investigated developmental change in symbolic representational ability by examining infants' imitation of vocalizations, words, visible motor actions, and nonvisible motor behaviors at ages 10, 13, 17, and 21 months. Results revealed a pattern of increasing imitation, supporting the view that a domain-independent representational capacity develops…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Developmental Stages, Imitation
Learning Link: Helping Your Baby Learn to Talk.
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Morrisset, Colleen E.; Lines, Patricia – 1994
Noting that young children learn to talk at different ages but within certain developmental boundaries, this document presents two charts to help parents facilitate their toddler's speech. The first chart lists characteristics to look for in a growing, healthy baby at various ages between 3 months and 24 months, and suggestions for when to talk to…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Developmental Stages, Infant Behavior
Making Sense of Piaget. The Philosophical Roots.
Atkinson, Christine – 1983
In all of his published work, Jean Piaget never abandoned his original theoretical framework for the understanding of human development. This framework insists that intelligence is essentially a biological phenomenon; its development is best understood as the development of a sophisticated and highly successful adaptation device. This device…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Developmental Psychology
Watch Me Grow! A Text for the Early Education of the Blind Child = Miradme! Texto para la Educacion Precoz del Nino Ciego.
Blind Children's Fund, Aburndale, MA. – 1987
This text assists parents and other caregivers in stimulating the young child with a severe visual impairment, in order to encourage development of normal behaviors which blindness delays and to prevent the appearance of psychological disturbances. Simple language and illustrations describe the stages of child development from newborn to 3 years…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Blindness, Child Development, Childhood Needs
Linguistic Input: A Comprehensive Bibliography.
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Proctor, Adele – 1982
A comprehensive bibliography on linguistic input in the home, clinic, and/or classroom is presented. Three general categories of materials are included: language spoken to normal children, cross-cultural studies, and language spoken to special populations. Linguistic input is a term that refers to the special language register that parents use to…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences
"The Mozart of Psychology": "Mind in Society" by L. S. Vygotsky: Implications for Improving Literacy.
Friedman, Sheila – 1985
L. S. Vygotsky's book "Mind in Society" was published more than 50 years ago in Russia, but it is now being recognized as relevant to contemporary research in child development because of the areas of investigation that he suggested. Vygotsky views children as active participants in their own learning and suggests that researchers…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Development, Child Language, Child Psychology