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Reginald S. Lourie Center for Infants and Young Children. n.d.. Fussy babies: Infants with regulatory disorders: A case study. Rockville, MD: Reginald S. Lourie Center for Infants and Young Children, 1 video (VHS 1/2 inch).

Growing Great Kids. [2009]. Growing Great Kids: Prenantal to 36 months—An interactive parenting and child development curriculum and a staff development program. Altadena, CA: Growing Great Kids,

Annotation: The curriculum is intended for home-visiting programs for parents of young children, community organizations, and businesses offering parenting classes, faith-based organizations, health organizations, and child care providers. The curriculum supports the development of nurturing and empathetic parent-child relationships for infants and children from birth through age 3. It focuses on child development and health, provision of care, parenting concerns, and dynamics of parent-child and family relationships. Modules address basic care, social and emotional development, cues and communication, physical and brain development, and play and stimulation. The curriculum includes handouts for parents (available in English and Spanish), unit certificates of completion for parents, and documentation records specific to each module. Curriculum training is also provided.

Keywords: Child health, Cognitive development, Communication, Curricula, Early childhood development, Families, Home visiting, Infant development, Infant health, Infant stimulation, Parent child relations, Parenting skills, Physical development, Play

Eliot L. 1999. What's going on in there?: How the brain and mind develop in the first five years of life. New York: Random House, Bantam Books, 533 pp.

Annotation: This book explores neural and psychological development from conception to age five. It covers topics such as critical prenatal influences, infant stimulation, sex linked developmental differences, and the nature nurture controversy. The author devotes a chapter each to the development of touch, balance and motion, smell, taste, vision, hearing, motor skills, social and emotional growth, and the emergence of memory. The final chapter is suggestions for raising a smarter child.

Keywords: Brain, Child development, Cognitive development, Early childhood development, Infant development, Infant stimulation, Intellectual development, Language development, Memory, Nature nurture controversy, Neural development, Prenatal influences, Psychological development, Sex linked developmental differences

Wallin HKM. 1997. The effects of maternal work choices and family-friendly employer policies on child outcomes. Washington, DC: Georgetown University, Georgetown Public Policy Institute, 50 pp.

Annotation: This paper discusses a research project on how the mother's working hours during the infant's first few months affect her infant's development by the age of four or five years. The study uses the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth for its data, and focuses on the effects of the timing of the return to work, the number of hours worked, and the presence of family-friendly policies in the workplace on children's behavior and home environment scores. The author makes recommendations about the effect of family-friendly policies on the employer, as well as on the mother and child.

Keywords: Early childhood development, Employee benefits, Employer initiatives, Infant development, Infant stimulation, Policy analysis, Socioeconomic status, Work family issues, Working hours, Working mothers, Working parents

Marzollo J. 1993. Fathers and babies: How babies grow and what they need from you, from birth to 18 months. New York, NY: HarperCollins, HarperPerennial, 235 pp.

Annotation: This book is a practical guide to baby care written expressly for fathers. In addition to step-by-step instructions on basic child care, the book also provides explanations of the important perceptual abilities, language skills, muscular coordination, strength, and concepts of trust and self-esteem that babies need to develop during the first 18 months of life.

Keywords: Fathers, Infant behavior, Infant feeding, Infant stimulation, Parenting, infant development

Gunzenhauser N, ed. 1987. Infant stimulation: For whom, what kind, when, and how much?. Skillman, NJ: Johnson and Johnson Baby Products Company, 206 pp. (Pediatric round table; 13)

Annotation: This book reports on the Pediatric Round Table on Infant Stimulation, which aimed to review the most recent research information and ideas in the field of infant stimulation, considering both pre- and normal-term infants from the viewpoints of brain plasticity, appropriate levels of stimulation (both psychological and behavioral perspectives), development and assessment, and intervention, with the objective of developing guidelines for the recommended policies and procedures to be implemented for the improvement of the quality of patient care.

Keywords: Conferences, Infant care, Infant development, Infant stimulation, Premature infants
   

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