47.501  Applied Developmental Psychology

Resources

The Future of Children

• Topically organized journals available from The Packard Foundation free of charge or on their website http://www.futureofchildren.org/index.htm Excellent summaries of relevant research and discussion of policy implications.

Info on Careers in Child and Family  Policy

• Available from School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University http://www.sesp.northwestern.edu/cfp  

Joint Center for Poverty Research Papers

• Series of working papers and other documents available online, e.g., Mayer, S. (1997). How Did the Increase in Economic Inequality between 1970 and 1990 Affect American Children's Educational Attainment? JCPR Working Paper 14101-01-2000 http://www.jcpr.org/publications.html  

Infancy

• The Brain Connection [Flash, Shockwave]  The Scientific Learning Corporation maintains the Brain Connection, a Web site "dedicated to providing accessible, high-quality information about how the brain works and how people learn." This site contains descriptions, pictures, animations, puzzles, quizzes on the human brain.

• NOVA Online: Life's Greatest Miracle The companion Web site to the NOVA program Life's Greatest Miracle.  Those users interested mainly in the science of human development will enjoy How Cells Divide and How Sex is Determined. Those more interested in learning about pregnancy can read journal entries from an expectant mother or learn about various screening techniques used to assess the health of an unborn baby.

• Principles of human growth and development.  One page summary of basic maturational principles from Virginia Tech Extension

          Articles from Nature Science Update:

• Video games boost visual skills  

• Marijuanna alters embryonic brain  

• Aneasthetics & baby brains    

• Brain imaging explained  

• Functional brain development

Study of Early Child Care

• SECC  National collaborative study of approximately 1300 children selected at birth and the correlates of child care in the sample

Early Childhood

• Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence:  Arcus (1998) Temperament.  This link takes you to an entry on Temperament and to a site from which you can search this encyclopedia and other Gale academic and reference publications for full text.

• Gale  Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence:  Steinberg (1998) Parent-Child Relationships.  This link takes you to an entry on Parenting across infancy and childhood. 

• Physical growth and development during early childhood.  Links to Laura Berk's chapter summary of her Allyn and Bacon text on development across the lifespan.

• Developmental Milestones.  University of Michigan resource pages on indices of normal growth and development across childhood; links to American Academy of Pediatrics

Adolescence

• Frontline on neuroanatomical changes in the adolescent brain

History

• History:  Outline

Cognitive Development

• Cognitive Development   

• Constructivism  

• Piaget  

Cognition and Culture

• Vygotsky  

• Sociocultural Theory

• Bronfenbrenner's model (p. 5)

Language Development

• ASHA:  Language & Literacy

• Language Development in Children who are Deaf

Social Development:   Family

• Parenting Styles  

• Diana Baumrind   

• Attachment  

• Mary Ainsworth

Social Development: Peers

• Social Competency, What works

• KidsHelp Line: Peers

Individual Differences :  Temperament & Disability

• New faces light up shy brains  

• Temperament

• LD Online learning disability resources for parents, students & teachers

• ADHD & Peer relationships

School practices 

• Mosteller:  Class size

• State testing accommodations

• NCEO Accommodations resources

• Students with disabilities

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