Here is an enlightening and exciting volume on the use and impact of technology on children. Professionals from the fields of education, child development, computer and toy manufacturing, and the clergy present the technological, psychological, and philosophical perspectives that surround computer applications in the education of children in today's society.

Young Children in a Computerized Environment

Politics & Social Sciences

Frank, Mary

Social Sciences

Routledge

This practical volume focuses on the importance of observation training and techniques for the recognition, identification, diagnosis, and treatment of children with immediate or potential problems.

The Puzzling Child: From Recognition to Treatment

Medical Books

Allied Health Professions

A thorough study of child-related legislative changes within federal health, education, and welfare programs and their impact on state and local practices.

Child Care: Emerging Legal Issues

Offers research on the development, organization, and operation of the child’s brain.

A Child's Brain: The Impact of Advanced Research on Cognitive and Social Behavior (Journal of Children in Contemporary Society)

Teen & Young Adult

Is marketing appropriate for child care programs? National leaders in marketing management and child care discuss the growing trend toward marketing child care programs. As more agencies recognize the need to develop their own marketing programs, inherent obstacles--particularly negative public and professional attitudes--are revealed. Marketing Child Care Programs addresses the resistance and offers strategies for surmounting the problems. The contributors outline the value of marketing child care programs and document how different types of programs have successfully marketed their services through case studies and illustrations of various kinds of communication strategies. The study of this trend and the exposure to successful marketing programs will prove valuable to administrators of profit and non-profit child care agencies, centers for special needs children, and other church, hospital, and community related programs.

Marketing Child Care Programs: Why and How

Business & Money

Economics

<p>This exciting book challenges old assumptions and offers promising new insights into the nature and special needs of gifted children in the early years. Leaders in gifted education blend their professional experiences with the latest research and theories to provide parents and teachers with the practical information they need in order to recognized and nurture the development of gifted children from birth to age eight. Clearly and concisely written, this book is invaluable as a resource for enhancing parenting and teaching skills and developing new programs and services. Read Intellectual Giftedness in Young Children and: </p>
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<li>Discover proven methods of recognizing intellectual giftedness in young children, including the handicapped, the economically disadvantages, and the culturally different </li>
<li>Learn to select or develop effective preschool and K-3 educational programs that provide for the special educational needs of gifted students </li>
<li>Gain a more accurate understanding of the nature of giftedness, including specific vulnerabilities present in early childhood </li>
<li>Enhance your understanding of the pscyhological conflict experienced by gifted children that can foster academic underachievement and “problem behavior” in school</li>
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Intellectual Giftedness in Young Children (The Journal of Children in Contemporary Society Series)

Parenting & Relationships

Schwartz, Joanne R

Parenting

Effective Theory and Applications in a Unique Collaborative Effort! Experts from two child-related disciplines have integrated their most effective theories and practices to provide an enhanced approach to developing language skills among young children. In this unique collaboration, child developmental specialists and speech pathologists clearly explain the function and value of language and provide readers with an important overview of language development in the first six years of life.The notable contributions in Facilitating Children's Language address many pertinent topics, including the theoretical background for understanding the acquisition of language, the components of a program that facilitate language development, a broad range of developmental activities that promote language growth, techniques that can be applied to determine the cause of delayed language, and case illustrations that exemplify how delayed language can be remediated in a child care setting. For those cases that cannot be remediated in this setting, guidelines for the referral process are included.Professionals responsible for promoting children's development in early childhood centers--including Head Start, day care, and nursery schools--will use this practical new handbook as a basic reference for daily activities and overall program planning.

Facilitating Children's Language: Handbook for Child-Related Professionals

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Tittnich, Ethel

Schomberg, Roberta

Szeberes, Shirley

Bloom, Lawrence A

Psychology & Counseling

<p>Here is the first book that is geared toward practical applications of humor with children. Health care professionals, counselors, social workers, students, and parents will find this to be a fascinating, instructive volume that illustrates how to effectively incorporate humor into children’s lives to produce enormously positive results. With a strong “how to” focus, this enlightening volume addresses the use of humor in the classroom--to promote learning and to foster higher levels of creative thinking. Experts who are on the cutting edge of humor and its benefits for children examine the importance of humor in fostering social and emotional development and in adapting to stressful situations. And for the scholarly reader, Humor and Children’s Development documents the major research trends focusing on humor and its development. This excellent resource--certain to spark further debate and research--offers an unrivaled opportunity to further understand children’s behavior and development.Humor and Children’s Development was featured in the February 1990 issue of Working Mother magazine in article titled “Let Laughter Ring!” by Eva Conrad.The chapter entitled “Humor in Children’s Literature” by Janice Alberghene was one of the finalists for the Children’s Literature Association’s Literary Criticism Award for the best critical article of 1988 on the subject of children’s literature.</p>

Humor and Children's Development: A Guide to Practical Applications

McGhee, Paul E.

They highlight successful intergenerational programs and discuss the historical, developmental, cultural, societal, and political perspectives that must be considered if more productive exchanges are to take place in the future. This empowering book will be particularly valuable to professionals and advocates who work with children and the aged, the systems and agencies that represent these two generations, public and private funding sources, and legislators and other public policymakers.

Intergenerational Programs: Imperatives, Strategies, Impacts, Trends (Journal of Children in Contemporary Society, Vol 20)

Newman, Sally M

Brummel, Steven W

Mental Health

Here is an authoritative look at the status of childhood depression as it relates to existing conflicts over diagnosis.

Childhood Depression

CRC-Press

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