Child Development

pended and/or expelled, begin to fail academically, and eventually develop adversarial relationships with the school system. By ...

participate in their social, intellectual, and cultural worlds. However, the term ‘‘development’’ is properly applied across the ...

the Department of Philosophy. He also chaired the Department of Pedagogy and directed the Laborato- ry School. Dewey left Chicag ...

See Also: COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT Bibliography Clarke-Stewart, Alison, Susan Friedman, and Joanne Koch. Child Development: A Topic ...

These findings may not appear to justify the strong public concern expressed about the harmful effects of divorce on children. B ...

ent), inept parenting, postdivorce economic hardship, interparental conflict, inadequate social support, and the number of negat ...

Investigation reported that 32 percent of female mur- der victims in 1999 were murdered by a husband or boyfriend, while 3 perce ...

Women and children living together in a shelter for victims of domestic violence. Many cases of domestic violence and abuse go u ...

Legislation and Support Services Parallel to the women’s movement in the 1970s, Americans began to demand tougher legislation an ...

Simonoff, E., P. Bolton, and M. Rutter. ‘‘Mental Retardation: Ge- netic Findings, Clinical Implications and Research Agenda.’’ I ...

E EAR INFECTIONS/OTITIS MEDIA Otitis media, commonly called an ear infection, is the most frequent illness of early childhood ex ...

speech-language pathologists, usually provide these services. A governing agency generally oversees the running of these program ...

A physical therapist massages a young boy by rolling him on an inflatable ball while another physical therapist steadies it. Ear ...

their quality of life. In addition, the results of research have demonstrated that when children with special needs receive earl ...

she was no longer merely a creature who needed feed- ing and cleaning, but that she was telling him that ‘‘she’s with us’’—becom ...

demanding parent. This may be a more challenging relationship than one between the same highly irrita- ble infant and a more pos ...

vocal, and gestural expressions. Once children devel- op the ability to use their words to express how they are feeling, they be ...

tentially volatile—for instance, when a young person’s desire to stay out late with his friends conflicts with the parents’ need ...

Mangelsdorf, Sarah C., J. R. Shapiro, and D. Marzolf. ‘‘Develop- mental and Temperamental Differences in Emotion Regula- tion in ...

These jobs include food services, manual work, retail sales, building construction, office work, and grocery stores. In food ser ...