This paper explores child humor from the early years to adolescence. The immature child's humor is crude, rude, and hostile and gradually evolves into sophisticated, socially acceptable adult humor in the same way that the immature child in general evolves into the sophisticated adult, becoming decreasingly creative along the way. (JDD)

Left-hemisphere language specialization in right-handed children was tested in children previously classified as consistent or nonconsistent in their hand preference. Results showed that both male hand preference groups demonstrated asymmetric interference in dual task tapping performance. In contrast, only females associated with consistency in…

This study examined developmental outcome at 1 and 2 years in relation to the presence and severity of neonatal intraventricular hemorrhage. Intraventricular hemorrhage related to Bayley mental and motor scores and neurologic ratings at 1 year but not at 2 years. Significant associations were found between the 1- and 2-year measures but not…

In an attempt to make Vygotsky's theories more accessible, Wertsch in "Vygotsky and the Social Formation of Mind" takes significant liberties with the original works. That leads to serious errors and moves the focus away from the author's own psychological theories. (PS)

The article describes possible reasons, other than stuttering, for children's disfluent speech, presents typical case profiles for different types of disfluency, and suggests appropriate case management procedures. (Author/DB)

Comparison of canonical (well-formed syllabic) babbling in 36 prelinguistic retarded children (17 to 62 months of age) with nonretarded children indicated a low correlation between babbling and developmental age suggesting substantial independence between cognitive development and babbling among retarded children. (Author/DB)

Introduces this thematic issue of CHILD DEVELOPMENT which addresses schooling and child development. (PCB)

A series of three experiments was conducted to assess the comprehension of four types of cross-modal (synesthetic) similarities in children and adults. Both perceptual and verbal (metaphoric) modes were tested. (PCB)

Examined relationships between three components of tasks used in developmental studies of attention--visual search, filtering, and priming--as measured in tasks performed by children and adults. (PCB)

Discusses how beliefs, intentions, attitudes, and values determine an individual's orientation toward social and psychological events despite evidence to the contrary. Examines how parents' and educators' beliefs and attitudes allow them to ignore data relevant to child development and to support hothousing of young children. (PCB)

Examines the differences in parental reasoning about child development along a dimension ranging from categorical to perspectivistic in a group of Mexican-American mothers and a group of Anglo-American mothers of comparable SES. Results emphasize the importance and usefulness of examining within-culture diversity in developmental research.…

Ability of 26 newborns to imitate facial expressions was examined. When infants observed emotional facial expressions, they did not show imitative matching of the modeled expressions. However, when tongue protrusion was modeled, infants did produce the modeled gesture. (PCB)

The relationship between language and symbolic gesture was studied in nine children (ages 18-32 months) who were in the lowest 10 percent for language production for their age. Subjects performed like language-matched controls on a lexical production task. On a syntax-related task, they performed like age-matched and significantly better than…

Describes a partnership between the Nursing Center at Clemson University's College of Nursing and the Clemson Child Development Center. (JOW)

Examined cognitive-developmental functioning across a series of developmental domains among 8- to 10-year-old children. Results supported the sequential nature of stage development from less complex to more complex levels of functioning. There does not seem to be support for synchronicity of development across the three domains. (BL)