For Postpartum Education for Parents (PEP) volunteers, this reference guide provides background information about the common concerns of parents. Extensively reviewed for accuracy and content by pediatricians, psychologists, obstetricians, nurses, and childbirth educators, the guide contains a summary discussion of the postpartum infant and…

The manual, an outcome of Project IINTACT, a model demonstration project, is designed to help prepare retarded mothers for parenthood. Introductory material addresses specific child-rearing problems for this population and discusses techniques for successful communication with the retarded mother. Solutions are offered to 22 problems, including…

In this paper conceptual and methodological issues in the analysis of developmental sequences are discussed. Conceptually, the reconstruction of the logic of acquisition calls for the use of task or structure analysis. Methodologically, it calls for an individual-oriented approach, the use of statement calculus for formulation of the postulated…

Designed to facilitate the dissemination of information and sharing of experiences among countries in Asia and the Pacific, this annual publication includes special reports, reviews of recent publications and studies, and notes on Asian documents and sources of documents concerned with recent trends in educational development, reforms and renewal,…

This paper examines concepts in information-processing theory which are likely to be relevant to development and characterizes the methods and data upon which the concepts are based. Among the concepts examined are those which have slight empirical grounds. Other concepts examined are those which seem to have empirical bases but which are…

Designed to be hung on a wall at home and filled in by parents, this guidebook offers a timetable for charting children's growth and provides ideas about activities parents and children can do together. After indicating characteristics of the newborn, the timetable progresses in 3-month intervals up to the eighteenth month. The period from 18…

Ten Down's Syndrome children (all 3-4 years old) and four nonhandicapped children and their mothers participated in a study of children's ability to respond to questions. Interactions of each of the 14 mother-child dyads were recorded on videotape and mother-child vocalizations transcribed. The number of appropriate, inappropriate, and…

The paper reviews the developmental perspective in interventions with behaviorally disordered youth and considers developmentally based models (such as the engineered classroom, the conceptual level model, and the developmental task instructional system). The Intervention by Prescription (IBP) model, an integrated problem solving system, is…

The paper examines a developmental approach to language acquisition in young disabled children. Issues of form, content, and function are explored, with function of communication seen as central for disabled children. The role of teachers and parents in requiring more sophisiticated language is considered. Questions of competence on either the…

The Tizard Report on Children with Specific Reading Difficulties, published in 1972, recommended the establishment of special centres to deal with the needs of slow learners. Article focused on the London Borough of Enfield, which set up just such a center, the Progress Centre, the same year. (Editor/RK)

Vocational aspirations were investigated in a sample of 282 children between the ages of three and six. Results indicate that the pattern of vocational projection differs for males and females and that females undergo occupational foreclosure earlier than their male peers. (Author)

Considered the use of school music to deal with the student's need for creative expression. (RK)

Author talked about what studies of the psychological development of the child suggest about his natural conception of justice. (Author/RK)

In stimulating children to discuss their feelings through language arts activities, puppets and poetry were utilized. (RK)

While visiting a living museum children can be made to awaken their senses and heighten their learning experiences. Zoos, aquariums and botanical gardens can offer such motivation. (RK)