Child Development category: 2058 books
The Measure of our Success
A Letter to My Children and Yours
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
A beautiful gift edition of the number one New York Times bestseller—from the founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund.
Digital Generations
Children, Young People, and the New Media
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Computer games, the Internet, and other new communications media are often seen to pose threats and dangers to young people, but they also provide new opportunities for creativity and self-determination. As we start to look beyond the immediate hopes and fears that new technologies often provoke,...
The Psychology of Language
An Integrated Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Breaking through the boundaries of traditional psycholinguistics texts, The Psychology of Language: An Integrated Approach*,* by David Ludden, takes an integrated, cross-cultural approach that weaves the latest developmental and neuroscience research into every chapter. Separate chapters on bilingualism...
by Jane Gilgun
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2011
How to know when children have been sexually abused poses special challenges. Some children speak up right away, while others are scared into silence. Some show no signs, while others show signs of stress and trauma. At times, the interactions between children and the persons who may be abusing them...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2011
Comprehensive, authoritative, and designed for practical utility, this handbook presents evidence-based approaches for helping struggling readers and those at risk for literacy difficulties or delays. Leading experts explain how current research on all aspects of literacy translates into innovative...
by SENG
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
To celebrate its 30th anniversary, Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG) offers a collection of 30 essays from leading experts in the gifted community. Topics include parenting gifted children, living with the intensity that often accompanies giftedness, counseling and educating gifted...
by Peter Thompson, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
ìThis guide is direct and practical. You will find out exactly where you are weakest in knowledge so that your studying can be most directed. I exceeded the NASP passing score AND the national average on my first try at the praxis 400 exam-- using this book as my 'Bible' (and I am "only"...
The Meaning of Things
Domestic Symbols and the Self
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 1981
The meaning of things is a study of the significance of material possessions in contemporary urban life, and of the ways people carve meaning out of their domestic environment. Drawing on a survey of eighty families in Chicago who were interviewed on the subject of their feelings about common household...
Your Amazing Itty Bitty® Parenting Teens Book
15 Powerful Strategies for Understanding How Your Teen Thinks
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2016
What Happens When You Strengthen and Regulate the Teen Mind & Brain?
….You just might end up with a happier, healthier, more resilient and loving human being!
Parents are struggling like never before in human history. Age-old issues are now being compounded with new age challenges...
Conditional Citizens
Rethinking Children and Young People’s Participation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This book challenges readers to recognise the conditions that underpin popular approaches to children and young people’s participation, as well as the key processes and institutions that have enabled its rise as a global force of social change in new times. The book draws on the vast international...
Fixing Gender
Lesbian Mothers and the Oedipus Complex
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Fixing Gender uses psychoanalysis to explore the theoretical implications for the gendering of the human subject that arise from the situation of lesbians raising children from birth. In the face of the powerful evidence of the ways gender operates, and in the deep structural ways the logic of gender...
by Gail Landsman
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Examining mothers of newly diagnosed disabled children within the context of new reproductive technologies and the discourse of choice, this book uses anthropology and disability studies to revise the concept of "normal" and to establish a social environment in which the expression of full lives will prevail.
Boys and Girls
Superheroes in the Doll Corner
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
With the publication of Boys and Girls in 1984, Vivian Gussin Paley took readers inside a kindergarten classroom to show them how boys and girls play—and how, by playing and fantasizing in different ways, they work through complicated notions of gender roles and identity. The children’s own conversations,...
Understanding Nonverbal Learning Disabilities
A Common-Sense Guide for Parents and Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
This easy-to-read guide offers a complete overview of Nonverbal Learning Disabilities (NLDs) and the wide variety of symptoms that different types of NLD present.
Maggie Mamen enables readers to select the most relevant strategies for coping with and managing their particular symptoms. She...