This commentary reviews previous articles that discuss major educational approaches for young children with autism. Controversy related to the exclusive and extensive use of applied behavior analysis and discrete trial training is discussed. The need for guidelines to assist in assessing the suitability of various interventions for individual…

While mathematics instruction for very young children needs to be age-appropriate in format and content, it also needs to prepare children conceptually for the kinds of mathematics learning that will be expected of them in future years. This perspective, informed by the work of Russian psychologists and educators on a measurement-based approach to…

Children with vision loss often have health care needs beyond those that are related to their vision. In 2006-2007, the Blind Childrens Center rendered more extensive services than ever before. Home visits, transportation services, medical appointments, hospital visits, mediations, meetings for individual educational/family service plans,…

A variety of preschool curricula is available and in widespread use, however, there is a lack of evidence from rigorous evaluations regarding the effects of these curricula on children's school readiness. The lack of such information is important as early childhood center-based programs have been a major, sometimes the sole, component of a number…

The guide is intended to aid the integration of normally developing children and children with handicaps into one early childhood program. An introductory chapter describes the Northwest Center Infant and Toddler Development Program in Washington and chronicles initial philosophical, educational, and programatic considerations. Each subsequent…

Considers the research base and political forces guiding the direction of the movement toward enrolling four-year-olds in academic programs: (1) remedial intervention programs for economically disadvantaged children; (2) need for change in decaying school programs; and (3) the urgent need for increased day care services. (Author/LHW)

Examination of preschoolers' stereotypes about sex differences in emotionality found that although this group consistently associated fear with females, gender attribution was situation-specific for anger and happiness. In explaining attributions, girls made greater use of sex-role and imagery categories than boys, and younger children gave more…

The "Everyday Learning" series has been developed to focus attention on the everyday ways in which children can be supported in their growth and development. It is for all those who are involved in children's development and learning, including people caring for young children in their own or others' homes, such as parents, grandparents…

In eight experiments, judgments of rectangle area by five-year-olds followed a reliable adding rule: height + width. In collateral work, the children judged the amount of liquid in a glass by a height-only rule. Implications for the Piagetian theories of centration and compensation are drawn. (SJL)

Presents three major types of language awareness elicited during a pilot study, using data collection instruments, such as interviews and tape recordings of the conversations of two groups of Iranian children living in the United Kingdom. (Author/VWL)

Increased emphasis on pediatric exercise physiology has led to more sophisticated fitness testing of children. This report of a study of 25 participants in a preschool development program describes procedures and strategies that increase the likelihood of achieving maximal aerobic power in three- through six-year-old children. (Author/IAH)

Three studies examined preschoolers' and kindergartners' learning of correspondences between phonemes and graphemes. Findings suggest that children use their knowledge of letter names and their phonological segmentation skills rather than memorizing these links in a rote, paired-associate manner. (Contains 26 references.) (Author/LB)

To examine the persistence of phonological selectional constraints on young children's lexical choices, the words attempted in the conversational speech of a longitudinal sample of 12 normally developing preschoolers from age 2;0 to 5;0 were scored for syllabic length, presence of consonant clusters, and distribution of constituent phonemes. (29…

This study examined the relationship between mothers' and fathers' attitudes toward deafness and the communication skills of their preschool hearing-impaired children (n=30). Significant correlations were found between fathers' scores on the Attitude to Deafness Scale and the language comprehension scores of their children. (Author/DB)

A study evaluated whether the availability of particular types of toys would influence the level of interactive play achieved by eight preschool children with disabilities in an inclusive preschool classroom. Results indicated that cooperative play was significantly more likely when social toys were available. (Author/CR)