Child Development category: 2058 books
The World of Deaf Infants
A Longitudinal Study
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2004
What is the impact of an infant's diminished hearing on the infant and its parents? How does communication develop in cases of diminished hearing? How does diminished hearing affect social and cognitive development? What types of early interventions can improve communication and development in infants...
Development and Prevention of Behaviour Problems
From Genes to Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
This book brings together world leading researchers from diverse fields to explore the potential causes of the development of behaviour problems. The book presents theories that hope to influence public health, education and social policy in the prevention of the costly social troubles that behaviour...
Children's Literacy Development
A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Learning to Read and Write
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
In the thoroughly updated second edition of this unique book, Catherine McBride examines how the languages we know help structure the process of becoming literate. Taking an ecological and distinctively cross-cultural perspective, the book looks at reading and writing development and impairment across...
Prevention Science in School Settings
Complex Relationships and Processes
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
This straightforward volume makes a strong, practical, research-based case for integrating prevention programs into middle and high schools. Written by experts in prevention science and education, it examines educational goals and prevention of risky behaviors as parallel and complementary processes...
Assessment and Intervention for English Language Learners
Translating Research into Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
This book presents evidence-based practices for appropriate assessment of and school-based services for young English language learners. It identifies and addresses the challenges of assessing and intervening with these students at the curricular, instructional, environmental, and individual levels,...
by Caroline I. Magyar
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2010
Recent years have witnessed a marked increase both in the number of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and those placed alongside their typically developing peers in general education classrooms. These events bring with them a plethora of challenges, particularly in the areas...
Fidelity of Implementation in Assessment of Infants and Toddlers
Evaluating Developmental Milestones and Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2018
This book examines the challenges in developmental assessment of infants and toddlers and provides best practices for implementing standardized assessments in early intervention settings. It starts with an overview of standardized assessment practices and discusses how specific tools can be used...
Family Influences on Childhood Behavior and Development
Evidence-Based Prevention and Treatment Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008
Irrespective of theoretical orientation, families matter. Families are the entity in which children are introduced to words, objects, shapes, and colors. Families are the people related in a myriad of conventional and unconventional ways that clothe, bathe, and feed its biological and acquired offspring....
Evidence-based Parenting Education
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
This is the first book to provide a multidisciplinary, critical, and global overview of evidence-based parenting education(PEd)programs. Readers are introduced to the best practices for designing, implementing, and evaluating effective PEd programs in order to teach clients how to be effective parents. ...
Beyond Nature-Nurture
Essays in Honor of Elizabeth Bates
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2004
Beyond Nature-Nurture: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth Bates is a very special tribute to the University of California at San Diego psycholinguist, developmental psychologist, and cognitive scientist Elizabeth Ann Bates, who died on December 14, 2003 from pancreatic cancer. Liz was a force of nature;...
Play = Learning
How Play Motivates and Enhances Children's Cognitive and Social-Emotional Growth
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2006
In Play=Learning, top experts in child development and learning contend that in over-emphasizing academic achievement, our culture has forgotten about the importance of play for children's development.
Jealousy in Infants
Laboratory Research on Differential Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
This Brief synthesizes findings from recent experiments on jealousy in infants with insights from pioneering thinkers in developmental science. It discusses attachment issues, status of jealousy as an emotion and as a feature of temperament, underpinnings in social cognition, the development of adaptive...
The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Infant Development, Volume 2
Applied and Policy Issues
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Now part of a two-volume set, the fully revised and updated second edition of *The Wiley-*Blackwell Handbook of Infant Development, Volume 2: Applied and Policy Issues provides comprehensive coverage of the applied and policy issues relating to infant development.
Updated, fully-revised and expanded,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
This volume presents the latest research from internationally recognized researchers and practitioners on language, literacy and numeracy, cognition, and social and emotional development of deaf learners. In their contributions, authors sketch the backgrounds and contexts of their research, take interdisciplinary...