Two developmental psychologists/language experts offer parents a powerfully insightful guide to how infants--even while in the womb--begin to learn language. "This is a great book . . . an important addition to any parent's library".--T. Berry Brazelton.
Why is it that the best and brightest of our children are arriving at college too burned out to profit from the smorgasbord of intellectual delights that they are offered? Why is it that some preschools and kindergartens have a majority of children struggling to master cognitive tasks that are inappropriate for their age? Why is playtime often ...
This title presents a synthesis of work done by the authors, who have pioneered a new methodological advance in language learning: the intermodal preferential looking paradigm, which can be used to assess lexical and syntactic knowledge in children as young as 13 months.
Words are the building blocks of language. An understanding of how words are learned is thus central to any theory of language acquisition. Although there has been a surge in our understanding of children's vocabulary growth, theories of word learning focus primarily on object nouns. Word learning theories must explain not only the learning of ...
We are robbing young children of play time at home and school in an effort to give them a head start on academic skills like reading and mathematics. Yet the scientific evidence suggests that eliminating play from the lives of children is taking preschool education in the wrong direction. This brief but compelling book provides a strong ...
Dr. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Dr. Roberta Golinkoff, renowned authors and child development experts, offer a peek inside early childhood through the marvelous marks made by young children. Thre's much to see and celebrate in children's scribble--much more than meets the eye. What appear to random, accidentls marks are rich in meaning, both for the ...
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