To him this means caring for the whole child, providing basic nutrition, and a spiritual attitude that lends freedom for the development of the mind.

The ability of a child to actively communicate earlier than would otherwise be possible appears to accelerate language development and to decrease the frustrations of communication.

“ Baby Signs ” was developed by Dr. Linda Acredolo and Dr. Susan Goodwyn in the early 1980s, and has become a persistent trend in child development.

Alcoholism can also lead to child neglect, with subsequent lasting damage to the emotional development of the alcoholic's children.

In the course of a woman ’ s life, her breasts will change size, shape, and weight, because of the hormonal bodily changes occurred in thelarche ( pubertal breast development ), menstruation ( fertility ), pregnancy ( reproduction ), the breast-feeding of an infant child, and the climacterium ( the end of fertility ).

Although clearly both genetic and environmental input is needed for a child to develop normally, considerable debate remains about how genetic information might guide cognitive development.

( For more on behaviorism's role, see Behavior analysis of child development ).

In the 12th century CE the Andalusian Muslim philosopher and novelist Abu Bakr Ibn Tufail ( known as " Abubacer " or " Ebn Tophail " in the West ) included the theory of tabula rasa as a thought experiment in his Arabic philosophical novel, Hayy ibn Yaqdhan in which he depicted the development of the mind of a feral child " from a tabula rasa to that of an adult, in complete isolation from society " on a desert island, through experience alone.

It also dealt with the theme of empiricism through the story of a feral child on a desert island, but departed from its predecessor by depicting the development of the protagonist's mind through contact with society rather than in isolation from society.

Rudolf Steiner's model of child development interrelates physical, emotional, cognitive, and moral development in developmental stages similar to those later described by Piaget.

One study found that university students who took a child development course and attained high grades showed, when tested ten years later, average retention scores of about 30 %, whereas those who obtained moderate or lower grades showed average retention scores of about 20 %.

He also believed that learning was constrained to the child ’ s cognitive development.

The notion of the zone of proximal development that he introduced in 1933, roughly a year before his death, served as the banner for his proposal to diagnose development as the level of actual development that can be measured by the child's independent problem solving and, at the same time, the level of proximal, or potential development that is measured in the situation of moderately assisted problem solving by the child.

The maximum level of complexity and difficulty of the problem that the child is capable to solve under some guidance indicates the level of potential development.

The term child labour is often defined as work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical and mental development.

Resistant to many comprehensive development strategies, child labour shows less hope of becoming history.

Rousseau was one of the first to advocate developmentally appropriate education ; and his description of the stages of child development mirrors his conception of the evolution of culture.

The name is derived from the Ga language of coastal Ghana, translated as " the sickness the baby gets when the new baby comes ", and reflecting the development of the condition in an older child who has been weaned from the breast when a younger sibling comes.

She also focused on early child development.

Social interactionist theory is a claim that language development occurs in the context of social interaction between the developing child and knowledgeable adults who model language usage and " scaffold " the child's attempts to master language.

At this point in development, a child has many more neural connections than he or she will have as an adult, allowing for the child to be more able to learn new things than he or she would be as an adult.

A famous child prodigy, Wiener later became an early researcher in stochastic and noise processes, contributing work relevant to electronic engineering, electronic communication, and control systems.

* Leo Kanner, child psychiatrist and autism researcher, died there on April 3, 1981.

In 2000, Swedish researcher Ing-Beth Larsson noted, " It is quite common for references still to cite Alfred Kinsey ", due to the paucity of subsequent large-scale studies of child sexual behavior.

None of Yue Fei's biographies mention him learning boxing as a child, but martial researcher Stanley Henning states " almost certainly did practice some form of bare handed fighting as a basic foundation for use of weapons.

Carer and child are placed in an unfamiliar playroom while a researcher records specific behaviours, observing through a one-way mirror.

A study by UNICEF Mexico and the DIF / National System for Integral Family Development estimated that more than 16, 000 children in Mexico were involved in prostitution ( in June 2000 ); a 2004 study by researcher Elena Azaola estimated that some 17, 000 children under the age of 18 are victims of the sex trade in Mexico ; the State System of Integral Family Development ( DIF ) reported that more than 20, 000 minors were victims of child prostitution in Mexico in 2005, an increase since the year 2000.

Tao was a child prodigy, one of the subjects in the longitudinal research on exceptionally gifted children by education researcher Miraca Gross.

Judith Rich Harris ( born February 10, 1938 ) is a psychology researcher and the author of The Nurture Assumption, a book criticizing the belief that parents are the most important factor in child development, and presenting evidence which contradicts that belief.

Dox calls her " Colu's foremost researcher ", and mentions her singing him to sleep as a child.

His second-eldest child is Francine Patterson, a researcher who taught a modified form of American Sign Language to a gorilla named Koko.

Among the college alumni are seven bishops, including two who struggled to promote women ’ s leadership in the Anglican Church, three High Court judges, Sir Denis Browne, the father of paediatric surgery in the UK, and Sir Lorimer Dods, a pioneer researcher in child diseases, W. C. B.

His heart was pounding like a mighty dynamo and he was trying to think, his mind seeming to scream at him like a hurt or frightened child, `` How will I do it??

The child dies with his mourning mother at his bedside.

And when the child dies in Lawrence's story in a delirium that is somehow brought on by his mania to win and to make his mother rich, the manifest absurdity of such a disease and such a death does not enter into our thoughts at all.

She was more excited than frightened at the prospect of having her first child in a foreign land.

She was certain now that it would be no harder to bear her child here in such pleasant surroundings than at home in the big white house in Haverhill.

Is the mother of an `` autistic '' child at fault??

( An enterprising teacher or parent could start training a healthy child at the age of seven days.

Be sure the head drops backward so that the child looks at the floor rather than toward the ceiling.

By the time the child first attacks the actual problem of reading, he is completely familiar and at ease with all of the elements of words.

As the child addresses the shepherd in a dream, light -- in the form of the major mode -- begins to appear, and at the moment of the miracle we hear a clear and shining D major.

Ever since I was a child, I have always had a yen to try my hand at writing.

If a child loses a molar at the age of two, the adjoining teeth may shift toward the empty space, thus narrowing the place intended for the permanent ones and producing a jumble.

Though his inner thoughts cringed at it, he forced himself to think back, recreating the scene in which Mae claimed to have caught him molesting the child.

The grand jury took a swipe at the State Welfare Department's handling of federal funds granted for child welfare services in foster homes.

But then I looked at Shirley and thought that I might as well -- the child needed her sleep, and Heaven knew what kind of a mess it would be, with Wally coming home drunk.

Creusa left Ion to die in the wild, but Apollo asked Hermes to save the child and bring him to the oracle at Delphi, where he was raised by a priestess.

Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of the essay describes the plight of starving beggars in Ireland, so that the reader is unprepared for the surprise of Swift's solution when he states, " A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragoust.

He learned the Polish language at home and the Russian language in schools ; and having a French governess and a German governess, he became fluent in these four languages as a child.

Often bedridden as a child, he became an outcast at school and bonded with his mother.

Akira was the eighth and youngest child of the moderately wealthy family, with two of his siblings already grown up at the time of his birth and one deceased, leaving Kurosawa to grow up with three sisters and a brother.

Bronson described her as " a very fine healthful child, much more so than Anna was at birth.

The child was born at Treveri, near the village of Ambitarvium, just before the junction of the Moselle River and the Rhine River ( modern Koblenz Germany ).

A few months before Augustus ’ death in 14, the emperor wrote and sent a letter to Agrippina mentioning how Caligula must be future emperor because at that time, no other child had this name.

Alexander had at least one illegitimate child, Máel Coluim mac Alaxandair, who was later to be involved in a revolt against David I in the 1130s.

The betrothal in 1180 of Alexios II to Agnes of France, daughter of Louis VII of France and his third wife Adèle of Champagne and at the time a child of nine, had not apparently been followed by their marriage.