Child Development

less likely to explore the environment than American infants. Based on these data and using the Japanese culture as an example, ...

on how children develop and how families function. This disorder affects how information in the brain is processed and is curren ...

related anxiety, depression, oppositional defiant dis- order, the effects of child abuse or neglect, or obsessive compulsive dis ...

not necessarily have ADHD. The primary reason, however, that parents oppose the use of medication is because of possible side ef ...

symptoms, with at least two being in the social do- main, along with one each in the communicative do- main and the domain of at ...

Treatment for autism is primarily based on methods of changing maladaptive behavior and developing learning and communication sk ...

Green, Gina. ‘‘Evaluating Claims about Treatment for Autism.’’ In Catherine Maurice, Gina Green, and Stephen Luce eds., Be- havi ...

B BABBLING AND EARLY WORDS A child’s entrance into human society begins with the onset of language development. Parents often ac ...

during interactions with caregivers. In the third stage (at four to six months), vocal play or expansion, sylla- ble-like produc ...

produced far more manual babbling than three matched hearing infants at similar ages. The deaf in- fants’ hand babbling also rev ...

Mundane, Alberta, Canada, in 1925. He initially termed this social learning theory, but it is now identi- fied as social cogniti ...

the world-renowned Berkeley Growth Study, a longi- tudinal study she initiated in 1928 that followed sub- jects from infancy thr ...

Publications by Bayley ‘‘Mental Growth during the First Three Years: A Developmental Study of Sixty-One Children by Repeated Tes ...

See also: LANGUAGE ACQUISITION DEVICE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT Bibliography Baker, Colin. A Parents’ and Teachers’ Guide to Bilingu ...

Bibliography Wolf, Theta. Alfred Binet. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973. Publications by Binet Binet, Alfred, and The ...

gerprints of the mother and sometimes footprints of the baby are taken. At this time the neonate’s general state of health is ev ...

the baby with the greatest possible tenderness. Imme- diately after delivery the baby is placed on the moth- er’s abdomen, where ...

Midwives are better trained today than ever and often go through intensive university-based classes in physiology and obstetric ...

dation, cardiac difficulties, and other problems, is caused by an extra copy of chromosome 21. As one of the most common serious ...

The specific cause of many birth defects is unknown, but several factors associated with pregnancy and delivery can increase the ...