Child Development category: 2058 books

Cover of Advances in the Sign Language Development of Deaf Children
by Brenda Schick, Marc Marschark, Patricia Elizabeth Spencer
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2005

The use of sign language has a long history. Indeed, humans' first languages may have been expressed through sign. Sign languages have been found around the world, even in communities without access to formal education. In addition to serving as a primary means of communication for Deaf communities,...
Cover of Advances in Child Abuse Prevention Knowledge

Advances in Child Abuse Prevention Knowledge

The Perspective of New Leadership

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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015

This book addresses new avenues in child abuse prevention research that will expand our capacity to protect children. These new avenues result from the emergence of new research methods made possible through technologic advances, an understanding of the benefits of cross-disciplinary research and...
Cover of The Development of Emotional Intelligence
by Nadja Reissland
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013

How do children learn about the expression and meaning of emotions – both happy and sad? This book answers questions regarding the foundation of emotional intelligence, and examines how children become emotionally literate as they are socialised into their family environment from birth to 2 years...
Cover of Socioemotional Development in Cultural Context
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Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011

Filling a significant gap in the literature, this book examines the impact of culture on the social behaviors, emotions, and relationships of children around the world. It also explores cultural differences in what is seen as adaptive or maladaptive development. Eminent scholars discuss major theoretical...
Cover of Child and Adolescent Resilience Within Medical Contexts
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Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016

This book explores the social conditions that promote pediatric resilience. It presents resilience as a set of complex interpersonal, institutional, and political relationships that affect young patients’ ability to “do well” in the face of medical adversity. Chapters analyze the impact of chronic...
Cover of Exploring the Dynamics of Human Development
by Catherine Raeff
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016

Researchers and students in developmental psychology have pointed out that the numerous findings from research about human development seem disconnected and that it is difficult to fit fragmented bits of information together. Studies of separate domains of functioning (e.g., cognition, emotion, language,...
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Teaching Your Child to Love Learning

A Guide to Doing Projects at Home

by Judy Harris Helm, Stacy Berg, Pam Scranton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Do you want to raise children who love to learn? Maybe you are simply looking for a way to unplug your child from the TV or video games? Just by reading this book, you will be taking a proactive step in providing your child with meaningful experiences that will result in growth and plenty of family...
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Immigrant Stories

Ethnicity and Academics in Middle Childhood

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Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2009

Immigrant Stories portrays the contexts and academic trajectories of development of three unique immigrant groups: Cambodian, Dominican and Portuguese. The children of immigrant families - or second generation youth - are the fastest growing population of school children in the US. However, very little...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017

Early Word Learning explores the processes leading to a young child learning words and their meanings. Word learning is here understood as the outcome of overlapping and interacting processes, starting with an infant’s learning of native speech sounds to segmenting proto-words from fluent speech,...
Cover of Perception and Understanding in Young Children
by Peter Bryant
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017

Originally published in 1974: ‘This book sets forth a theory of cognitive development based on simple but powerful processes of inference. The theory is applied with great ingenuity and freshness to complex phenomena found during intellectual development. Dr Bryant has written an important and original...
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Children and Separation

Socio-Genealogical Connectedness Perspective

by Kwame Owusu-Bempah
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014

Childhood separation and loss have become virtually a way of life for a large number of children throughout the world. Children separated from their genetic parent(s) and consequently their genealogical, social and cultural roots due to processes such as adoption, parental divorce/separation, donor...
Cover of Confronting the Child Care Crisis
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Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016

Confronting the Child Care Crisis is an outstanding, historically important analysis of childcare dynamics and a practical guidebook for change is essential reading about unmet needs of childcare. Based on years of personal, professional experience, facts and problems show how inadequate childcare...
Cover of The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby & Child Care
by Sally Fallon Morell, Thomas S. Cowan
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013

The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby & Child Care makes the principles of traditional nutrition available to modern parents. The book provides holistic advice for pregnancy and newborn interventions, vaccinations, breastfeeding and child development, as well as a compendium of natural treatments...
Cover of Program Your Baby's Health

Program Your Baby's Health

The Pregnancy Diet for Your Child's Lifelong Well-Being

by Barbara Luke, Tamara Eberlein
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2009

The most important period of your child's health is the nine months before birth. Cutting edge research in a new field known as "metabolic programming" reveals a startling new fact: what a mother eats during pregnancy has a far greater effect on her child's future development, overall health,...
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