When children enter school, their principal way of thinking is through talking aloud (rather than through internal verbalization), and they need to be encouraged in their use of language as they confront new academic problems. (JD)

Children's attitudes and beliefs about death and dying are examined, and some recommendations are made to parents, teachers, and administrators to establish a base from which the child can operate during encounters with death and dying. (JMF)

Social development is an important and integral part of reading readiness; the reading teacher must be aware of the social skills needed for productive growth in reading and the techniques involved in developing them. (HOD)

Aesthetic sensitivity is present in children to varying degrees, but creativity emerges and develops with intelligent assessment of aesthetic experiences. (JD)

The Frankel Developmental Scale, a method of charting parents' observations of their handicapped children's development in seven areas (fine motor, gross motor, dressing, eating, social, language, and cognitive development) is described and a sample scale is presented. (CL)

Presents the view that the play environment provides the necessary outlets that stimulate the development of the whole child. (SS)

The research reported tests three theoretical descriptions of the relative impact of childhood and later socialization experiences on adult behavior, using the specific context of female sexual socialization. The theories tested are derived from Freud, Brim, and Gagnon and Simon. (Author)

A starter collection list for parent-teacher shelf in a children's department including books, pamphlets and magazines. (KP)

Discusses contributions of Adolph's study to behavioral knowledge; it is an important study of the early development of a universal basic pattern of human behavior, illuminating how humans perceive the possibilities for action and learn to use them when appropriate opportunities are offered. Notes that the study addresses generalization of newly…

A study of 11 kindergarten and 11 second-grade students evaluated the effects of target word frequency and age on normally achieving children's performance of naming and phonological awareness tasks. Results supported an explicit connection between lexical retrieval and phonological awareness, mediated by working memory. (CR)

Examined children's understanding of false belief, representational change, and appearance-reality distinction. Subjects were 34 Junin Quechuan children, 4 to 8 years old. Findings indicated an understanding of the appearance-reality distinction and suggested an improvement with age. Children demonstrated poor understanding of representational…

This study examined the productivity and representation of past-tense marking by 11 6-year-old children with and 22 children without specific language impairment (SLI). Patterns of past-tense marking as a function of a word's phonological composition and inflectional frequency were the same for the SLI children and the 11 control children matched…

Discusses the stage theory of early child development of French theorist Henri Wallon. Describes Wallon's efforts (in contrast to contemporary Piaget) to describe emotional development and the role emotions play in establishing the child-caregiver bond. Argues that Wallon's theory is unique in its focus, influenced theorists such as Vygotsky, and…

This article offers a developmental ecological approach as a useful model for addressing the complexities of emotional disturbances in children. It sees the systems of care movement in children's mental health as congruent with the developmental ecological perspective and as providing a mechanism for responding to the multidimensional aspects of…