Examined the ability of 85 children of 6, 8, and 11 years to reason deductively with content for which practical knowledge is irrelevant. The emergence of a clear developmental pattern showed that children's ability to differentiate responses to logical and illogical syllogisms improves over this age period. (RJC)

The professional development of trainers requires an understanding of the developmental stages of adults. As with other adults, trainers may progress through stages of development. Staff developers must align the type of support given with the current stage of the trainer's development and move the learner to the next stage. (JD)

Examines concept of life review as a developmental process with these objectives: (1) places the life review within a developmental framework as a dynamic rather than static occurrence; (2) clarifies the possible process variables of the life review; and (3) suggests possible counseling interventions. (Author/ABL)

Development of a terminal chronic illness creates a spectrum of problems which call for counseling interventions to assist in the individual's adjustment. This overview, intended to raise the consciousness of rehabilitation counselors, outlines the three stages of terminal illness, followed by an examination of resulting lifestyle and relationship…

Spelling should be recognized as a developmental process that is child-initiated and discovery-based. Through use of an integrated whole language approach, children can be provided with opportunities to acquire spelling as a natural language process by beginning at their own developmental level and refining their internal knowledge of word…

Aspects of the educational psychology component of undergraduate and graduate teacher education at University of Wisconsin (Oshkosh) are discussed. Goals, content, resources, methods and evaluation procedures are outlined. (IAH)

The comparison of the fears of intellectually gifted and non gifted children found gifted children's fears to be consistent with their developmental level, realistic, and to display considerable frustration, helplessness, and pessimism concerning their future. Their fears reflected advanced cognitive and social awareness. (Author/DB)

The study of four autistic children, aged six-nine, found support for the hypothesis that persistent pronominal errors by autistic children can be explained by failure to observe pronouns in speech addressed to another person, an aspect of language development in normal children. (Author/DB)

Examined communicative intents of parents interacting with their children between 14 and 32 months of age. Found that as children's age increased, the set of communicative intents used by parents grew in size and sophistication, parents' use of directive intents declined, and use of child-centered acts increased. Common parental intents were rare…

Hudson addressed two issues on second-language acquisition: the validity of the multidimensional model and the application of developmental sequence findings to assessment and pedagogy. This response suggests that his lines of argument are based on serious conceptual flaws. (Contains 37 references.) (LB)

If well planned, service learning can exhibit developmental stages that parallel and feed into patterns of academic growth. Students who learn through service pass through six developmental stages (the need to be needed, to know, to know more, to understand why, to know what can be changed, and to integrate action and knowledge for developing…

Examined nascent understanding of desire in cases where a child judges another's desire while holding a strong conflicting desire. Found that difference in ability to attribute beliefs versus desires to others is not due solely to difference in representational nature of two mental states; instead, beliefs differ from desire in their potential to…

Lesbians ages 30-45 (n=10) were asked about the experience of coming out, effect of sexual identity development on career development, effect of homophobia on careers, and effect of association with the lesbian community. Results suggest that lesbians experience a "second adolescence" in coming out, identity consolidation disrupts career…

Finds that lower-level developmental variables are related to beginning writing skills. Identifies an orthographic-linguistic dimension and an automaticity dimension in the battery of developmental skills and writing products. (RS)

Two experiments investigated 8-, 10-, and 12-month-old infants' levels of searching for mothers, strangers, and objects. Found that, overall, 10- and 12-month-old infants had higher levels of searching for mothers, whereas youngest infants showed no differences for searching. This discrepancy is likely due to social cognitive development and…