Articles included in this journal are a report on the President's Conference on Early Childhood Education entitled "The Young Child: The Significance of Motor Development" by Delores M. Curtis; A Real Look at the Young Child by Lolas E. Halverson; What Movement Means to a Young Child by Keturah E. Whitehouse; Who Says the Young Child…

The purpose of this study was to construct and test a new instrument to test reading comprehension based upon Jean Piaget's theory of child development. The instrument was aimed at the elementary school age group, and thus was based specifically upon the eight "concrete" operations outlined by Piaget as characteristic of child thought in…

This series of 12 articles for parents on how to help pre-schoolers and beginning readers at home was written for the National Reading Center by specialists in reading and early childhood education. The titles and authors are: "Getting Ready to Read" (E. Robert La Crosse), "Creating a Good Reading Climate at Home" (Mary Frances K. Johnson),…

Home Start II of the Waterloo Community Schools, Iowa, is a program that attempts to remedy developmental lag in underprivileged preschool children by a multi-faceted approach. The program is described as to context, activities, staff, distinctive features, and equipment and material. Discussions are given of community involvement, costs, and…

This study deals with the development of techniques to measure the area of childhood personality development known as coping ability. Coping ability can be seen in children's ways of handling unfamiliar and stressful situations and is a skill that is seen as likely very influential in an individual's total development, both social-emotional and…

This compendium of abstracts of state day care licensing regulations has been prepared as part of the National Survey of Day Care Licensing conducted by Consulting Services Corporation in conjunction with Social and Administrative Services and Systems Association for the Office of Child Development, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and…

This manual is written to help day care directors, physicians, and others concerned with the health of children in day care to plan and carry out a group of services that will meet the health needs of children and their parents. It is divided into three parts. Part One is primarily concerned with Planners and Project Directors, and includes…

Studies of beginning reading sponsored by the U.S. Office of Education indicate that teachers, not methods, account for the major differences in the results of instruction and that reading instruction can be improved via combinations of methods. Consequently, teachers should be free to select materials and methods most appropriate for children for…

Preliminary results are presented for an instrument to measure social behavior of preschool children, focusing on cooperation. Cooperation is defined either as behavior for the joint gain of the participants in an interaction or behavior in which each child attains his individual goal. The Oregon Preschool Test of Interpersonal Cooperation (OPTIC…

As an aid for teachers of adult basic education, this publication suggests ways to use the filmstrip "When Raymond Was Six" to greatest advantage. It offers possible questions for class discussion, and provides activities for additional learning experiences. The filmstrip may be used in a variety of ways, such as the following: as motivation for a…

The results of an experience obtained while working with children in the early stages of infancy are presented. They are basically observations taken of a child's reaction to sudden changes, particularly separation from its mother. Anxiety was observed in these infants in diverse circumstances; in some cases it was at a normal level and in others…

The Early Childhood Library Specialist Program of the School of Library Science, at North Carolina Central University, was organized in 1970 and has the following purposes: (1) to train students to become effective practitioners of early childhood library methods employed in introducing children to the uses of books and other media for the…

MEASUREMENT SCALES WERE DEVELOPED FOR USE IN DESCRIBING AND EVALUATING SKILLS WHICH BLIND CHILDREN DEVELOP FOR EXPLORING AND COMPREHENDING THEIR ENVIRONMENT, AND ATTAINING REASONABLE SELF-DEPENDENCE. STUDY FEASIBILITY EXCLUDED SOME OF THE BASIC LIVING SKILLS, LEAVING ONLY THOSE RELATED TO THE BLIND CHILD'S ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY. THE ITEMS USED…

The listener-oriented presupposition is defined as a covert proposition related in some way to the listener and associated with a given utterance which the speaker must believe to be true if that utterance is to be judged functional by the listener. It is proposed that listener-oriented presuppositions fall into the following three classes: class…

This booklet describes some initial work on environments at the early childhood level; special emphasis is given to the experiences of first-grade children with the medium of tri-wall (triple thick cardboard). Experiments at Nueva over the past two years (1971-1973) indicate children at this developmental level seem to gain great satisfaction when…