Depressive disorders are chronic illnesses affecting women and their families for extended periods of time. This paper summarizes research related to the effects of maternal depression on children's short and long term adjustment. Children of depressed mothers are at risk for internalizing and externalizing disorders. Genetics account for a small…

This paper describes the conceptual and activity focus of a training program for parents and childcare providers to help children develop their learning potential. The program thereby facilitates children's integration into society and enhancement of further learning propensities needed by them to adapt. The focus of the work is to create…

This book examines the role child abuse plays within a victim's individual development from childhood through their adult life. It begins by describing the different types of child abuse, prevalence rates, and risk factors. It also describes four types of child maltreatment that include: physical abuse, neglect, sexual abuse, and emotional abuse.…

This document is designed to establish consistency in the definition and format to be used in developing early literacy standards and benchmarks. It articulates a set of standards and benchmarks that is based on current national and state standards documents and that reflects the foundational knowledge and developmental differences representative…

This training guide is designed to enable parents and early childhood staff and managers to support and facilitate infant and toddler transitions through responsive relationships that are secure and consistent. The guide defines transitions during the first 3 years of life from developmental and relational perspectives that include changes that…

The first edition of this book was written to encourage practitioners to adopt more "authentic" assessment practices. This second edition has been expanded to include new information and scholarship about the authentic assessment of young children and the types of information teachers need to implement quality authentic assessment strategies. The…

Integrating Vygotsky's sociocultural theory of the mind and cognitive science's computational model, this book focuses on how the computational mind uses language to mediate the internal and external worlds during thought. The first part of the book establishes the basis for unifying social and computational approaches to mind through language.…

Describes an individualized remedial reading program where students choose their own reading lessons within a framework structured by the teacher. (TO)

Discusses the interaction of age and sex factors on consistency of recognition of 71 Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test pictures by preschool children. (TO)

In this article, evaluation by the music teacher is discussed and a list of different kinds of child growth is presented. (Author/RK)

Based on studies on Guatemalan children, presents data that absolute retardation in the time of emergence of universal cognitive competences during infancy is not predictive of comparable deficits for memory, perceptual analysis, and inference during preadolescence; retardation seems to be partially reversible and cognitive development in the…

This article reports one search for factors or conditions shaping the child's growth in logical ability. The search indicated the existence of a relationship between the quantity of teacher talk that contains the language of logic and the change exhibited by students. Implications for classroom practice are discussed. (JA)

Article discussed the fact that children do not always learn what their teachers consider important, and also the problem that adults must understand somehow how children's minds work if they are to teach them successfully. (Author/RK)

The child's process of learning to read was simulated by teaching adults to associate Chinese characters with spoken words. When the students chose words to be learned, learning was more rapid than when words were selected by the examiner from a basal reader. (Author/JA)

Considered the part of art education in the intellectual formation of children. (RK)