Resume of testimony given at hearings at the White House Conference on Children, September, 1970. Topics considered were the influence of the mass media on children and ways to improve media products. (NH)

Among the issues considered are: the conceptualization of health; the problems of validity and reliability; the prediction of developmental progression and postdiction: the role of symptoms: the determination of developmental influence and the definition of variations in development. A shorter version of this paper was presented to the American…

A defence of Piaget's theory of moral development against misunderstandings of his overemphasis on genetic maturation, underemphasis on role of intelligence, and imposition of a "universal order. (MH)

A counseling program designed to help 1 grade school child with learning problems is successfully fulfilling its objective. (CK)

Discusses the distinctive problems of the years from 10 to 14 and their relation to education. (DR)

Research supported by State of Washington Initiative 171 Funds for Research in Biology and Medicine.

The role of speech in child development is examined, reasons for lack of speech in school are suggested (including anxiety, shock, overprotection, abuse, or anger), and four recommendations for teacher action are offered (including having empathy and encouraging other means of communication). (CL)

A newly-appointed principal describes the responses of schoolchildren, and how the responses vary according to age and experience, as the children adjust to her presence after the departure of a beloved predecessor. (Author/MLF)

Describes the development of one child's awareness of print and the stages he passed through while learning to read from birth to age two. (FL)

Evidence for the increasing recognition of maturational lag in addition to intellectual impairment, associated with the syndrome of early onset psychosis, is presented to indicate that developmental variables play a central role in the behavioral profile of autistic children. (Author)

Describes the Ready-Set-Go Infant-Child-Parent Program, established to enhance the development of the cognitive competencies of high risk and normal infants through parent awareness of developmental capabilities. (GC)

Ten elements comprising the basic level of play therapy with children are presented, and the "resort" model, upon which successful play therapy is based, is discussed. (MJB)