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Annotation: This manual provides descriptions of injury prevention projects implemented in several states. These projects were carried out by state and local departments of health, and by other health/injury-related entities. Interventions cover 12 specific injuries and two overarching contributing factors—firearms and alcohol. For each project, the manual describes the problem, the project objective(s), components, maternal and child health (MCH) role, resources needed, lessons learned, and evaluation. These cases represent concrete examples of what has been tried, what has worked, and what has not. The case studies are indexed by age group protected, by primary target audience, by state, and by MCH setting. Appendices include nine key injury prevention activities for state MCH agencies, and a sample case study format. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Alcohol, Assault, Bicycles, Burns, Case studies, Correlates of injury, Drowning, Evaluation, Family violence, Firearms, Homicide, Injury prevention, Motor vehicles, Occupational injuries, Playgrounds, Program development, Residential injuries, Sexual abuse, Sports, Suicide

Annotation: This book is a compendium of ideas for activities that parents can do with their infants from birth to one year of age. Along with advice on basic child care skills, it includes suggestions for games, toys, music, books, travel and playing with other children. Appendices contain words to popular children's songs and a list of mail order sources.

Keywords: Child care, Infant development, Manuals, Parenting skills, Play

Annotation: This book discusses the development of pretend play in nine children growing up within educated, middle-class, European American families. The authors present an integrated analysis of pretend play by discussing its emergence and development in a sociocultural context. A summary of major findings of the study as well as summary of conclusions is included.

Keywords: Early childhood development, Play, Sociocultural factors, Young children

Annotation: This manual is a reprinting of the publication "Caring for Our Children: National Health and Performance Standards–Guidelines for Out-of-Home Child Care Programs," published in 1992 by the American Public Health Association. The manual describes standards for planning and establishing a quality program of child care. Ten panels of experts formulated these health and safety standards, which were then reviewed nationally for content and feasibility. They are intended for use by anyone working in the child care system in the United States, including those who direct or work in facilities and those involved in the licensing and regulation of facilities. The standards address the following topics: staffing; program activities for healthy development; health protection and health promotion; nutrition and food service; facilities, supplies, equipment, and transportation; infectious diseases; children with special needs; administration; and recommendations for licensing and community action. The publication also provides the rationale for each standard, along with comments and resources for obtaining more information. Distinctions are made between standards that apply to child care centers, large family child care homes, and small family child care homes. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Car seats, Child care, Child care centers, Child health, Family child care, Guidelines, Injury prevention, Parenting, Playgrounds, Special health care needs, Standards

Annotation: This publication examines the role of play in human growth and development and focuses on the need to incorporate play in the early childhood education experience. A variety of contributors offer their views on topics such as the need for play-based learning, the importance of play in the processes of growth, thought, speech, and feeling, the integration of child development research in the classroom and child care environment, and themes of play in specific age groups.

Keywords: Education, Play, Young children

Annotation: This videotape and manual are designed to help public recreation departments train their employees to assess and maintain playground equipment to manage risk. The videotape contains two sections; the first covers maintenance inspections, and the second reviews how to evaluate playground equipment to determine if it complies with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission guidelines. The manual includes a copy of the Commission's "Handbook for Public Playground Safety, " sample checklists and maintenance schedules, suggestions on the use of the materials, sources of information, and bibliographical references.

Keywords: Children, Educational materials, Federal government, Injury prevention, Local government, Playground safety, Product safety, Public policy, Recreational equipment, Risk assessment, Risk management, Standards, Training

Annotation: This annotated bibliography includes items recommended by members of the planning committee for Child Health Day 1991. Sections of the bibliography address overviews of injury issues; injury data; program components (overview, program development, advocacy, coalition building, and training); and injury types and causes (overview, bicycles, child care, drowning, falls, firearms, fire/burns, motor vehicles, occupational injuries, pedestrians, playgrounds, sports, toys, and violence). The bibliography also contains resource lists. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Advocacy, Bicycles, Burns, Child Care, Children, Coalitions, Curricula, Data, Directories, Drowning, Educational materials, Falls, Firearms, Fires, Health observances, Injury prevention, Motor vehicles, Occupational injuries, Pedestrians, Playgrounds, Program development, Sports, Toys, Traffic safety, Violence

Annotation: This book is based on a symposium held at the Harold E. Jones Child Study Center of the University of California in May 1988. The symposium grew out of concerns for the effects that the increasing institutionalization of child care and early education may have on the role of play in the development of the young child, and was designed to stimulate communication between preschool education practitioners and researchers. Chapters cover policy issues, the California School Readiness Task Force, developmentally appropriate practice in the primary grades, play in language and literacy development, cognitive development, and social interactions.

Keywords: Child care, Cognitive development, Early childhood education, Play, Policies, Social development

Annotation: This book introduces a new model for social and communicative development of developmentally delayed children. It focuses on the pre-conversational child who has yet to develop a stable or generalized habit of spontaneous conversation. The model is based on two perspectives: the literature on the development of parent-child interaction in the first few years after birth and a series of clinical research projects that have investigated parent-child interaction within intervention programs. The model, called ECO, focuses on partnerships in the competency areas of play, turn-taking, nonverbal communication, language, and conversation. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Child health, Children with special health care needs, Communication, Developmental disabilities, Early intervention programs, Interpersonal relations, Parent child relations, Play

Annotation: This curriculum guide was written for teachers of grades K-6 and presents an interdisciplinary approach to reduce the number of injuries on the playground. A joint project of the Utah Department of Health and Utah State University, the publication contains background information on the various types of playground equipment, general hazards, legal implications, and first aid and emergency care. A curriculum framework, student assessment instruments, and individual learning activities for each age group are presented. Each activity description lists the objective, preparation, procedure, materials needed and an extension activity. The guide is being used by the state and local health agencies to develop playground safety programs in Utah school systems. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Child health, Curricula, Injury prevention, Playground safety, State plans, Training

Annotation: This book supports the case for encouraging spontaneous, unstructured play in children's lives. The book defines what play entails for the child, how play changes with cognitive, social, and physical development, how play affects other behaviors, and how outside factors affect play. Parents and teachers are offered guidelines for supporting symbolic, functional, and constructive play and are provided with suggestions for directing games with rules, promoting development through game playing, and handling play-related problems.

Keywords: Early childhood development, Play, Young children

Annotation: The purpose of this volume is to give early childhood educators a source of information about contemporary research on children's play. Many of the chapters review studies of the development of play, stressing the intricate competencies that emerge as new play forms develop. Each author comments on the implications of the material covered for teachers. The concluding two chapters review the literature on factors in the preschool environment, indoors and outdoors, that govern the amount and quality of play.

Keywords: Children, Early childhood educators, Literature reviews, Play

Keywords: Children, Play

Annotation: This book presents games that parents can play with their infants to influence their intellectual development in the future. Games are arranged in sections by the infant's developmental stages (the early months, the sitting and lap baby, the creeper-crawler, the standing and toddler, and the older toddler). The book is illustrated with line drawings showing racially diverse infants and parents and is based on the author's research funded by the U.S. Children's Bureau and other agencies.

Keywords: Consumer education materials, Early childhood development, Infants, Parents, Play, Young children

Annotation: This book reports on a study of preschool children of immigrants to Israel from various Middle Eastern and North African countries that used sociodramatic play to help these children become better able to cope with the demands of elementary schools. The book looks at sociodramatic play as a type of play phenomenon, comparison of sociodramatic play of children from advantaged sociocultural backgrounds with that of children from disadvantaged sociocultural strata, theories of the differences observed, and an experiment designed to further sociodramatic play in culturally deprived groups.

Keywords: Cultural barriers, Cultural factors, Israel, Kindergarten, Minority groups, Play, Preschool children, Role playing, School readiness, Sociocultural factors

Annotation: This handbook is intended to provide a means by which workers and leaders of village communities can develop a program that will ultimately lead to bettering the child's environment. The handbook emphasizes the general principles of the care and upbringing of children. The handbook is made up of 12 chapters that can be used at meetings or training sessions. Each chapter includes important points, activities to make learning interesting, suggestions for teaching aids, and suggestions for follow-up. Topics covered include (1) preparing a good home for a baby, (2) making a safe world for babies and children, (3) what children need for healthy growth, (4) making a healthy life for children, (5) how a baby grows, (6) a dangerous time: caring for a child through the second year of life, (7) the years before school are for growing and learning, (8) when children go to school, (9) sleeping and resting: important for everyone, (10) proper clothing for children, (11) how children learn through play, and (12) keeping children well and happy. Two appendices include the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child and a helping the leader section.

Keywords: Child development, Child health, Child rearing, Curricula, Education, Infant development, Infant health, International health, Leadership, Learning, Mothers, Play, Safety, School age children, School readiness, Sleep, Teaching, Training, Young children

Annotation: This bulletin is one of a series based on the child care problems reported by 125 orthopedically handicapped mothers. The ideas included suggest ways in which mothers may develop cooperative behavior and build basic trust through the sharing of play activities with their children. The topics discussed are developing cooperative behavior, outdoor play supervised from indoors, active indoor play, bringing the outdoors indoors, sharing musical experiences, children and art materials, and story telling.

Keywords: Art, Child behavior, Child care, Disabilities, Mother child relations, Play

Annotation: This document contains suggestions and instruction on how to create toys for children with items from around the kitchen and house, to reduce new toy consumption and reduce the consumption of materials needed to manufacture war related goods.

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Keywords: Children, Play, Toys, War

Annotation: This publication provides information on play as the child's way of learning. Topics include playing alone and with other children, imitative play, pretending, and training the senses. Information on play equipment (toys, books and pictures, and outdoor play equipment) and suggestions for further reading are also provided. It is a publication of the U.S. Department of Labor, Children's Bureau.

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Keywords: Guidelines, Play, Playground equipment, Preschool children, Toys

Annotation: A publication of the U.S. Department of Labor, Children's Bureau.

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Keywords: Child health, Child labor, Children with special health care needs, History, Juvenile delinquents, Play, Reports