Meningitis
Meningitis is a serious inflammation of the meninges, the membranes (lining) that surround the brain and spinal cord. It can be of bacterial, viral, or fungal origin. Meningitis is usually the result of a viral or bacterial infection. Viral ... [... more]
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Concept Formation
Learning process by which items are categorized and related to each other. A concept is a generalization that helps to organize information into categories. For example, the concept "square" is used to describe those things that have four equal [... more]
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Trisomy
Chromosomal abnormalities that cause birth defects including Down syndrome. Chromosomes in the human body generally come in pairs. Most people have 23 pairs of chromosomes, for a total of 46. When an extra chromosome is present in one of the ... [... more]
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Adaptation
Behavior that enables an organism to function effectively in its environment. Adaptation describes the process whereby an organism adapts to, or learns to survive in, its environment. The process is crucial to natural selection, enabling those ... [... more]
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Fine Motor Skills
Fine motor skill involves deliberate and controlled movements requiring both muscle development and maturation of the central nervous system. Although newborn infants can move their hands and arms, these motions are reflexes that a baby cannot ... [... more]
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Gesell Development Schedules,...
Evaluates the physical, emotional, and behavioral development of infants and young children. The Development Schedules are a set of four timetables devised by Arnold Gesell (1880-1961) at Yale University to evaluate the physical, emotional, and ... [... more]
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Babysitter
A person, often a teenager, who provides temporary, occasional child care services. The term babysitter is usually used to describe someone who provides occasional child care for a few hours at a time. Most families provide the babysitter with ... [... more]
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School Vouchers
A program to provide government money to parents to subsidize tuition for their children at private schools. School voucher systems have been proposed in several states and cities across the nation and is part of a larger movement toward school ... [... more]
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Dwarfism
Dwarfism is a term applied broadly to a number of conditions resulting in unusually short stature. While dwarfism is sometimes used to describe achondroplasia, a condition characterized by short stature and disproportionately short arms and legs, ... [... more]
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Privacy, Child's Right to
Laws and guidelines concerning who should have access to a child's privacy. Privacy is viewed in most democratic societies as a necessary element in the development of healthy, active individuals. The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ... [... more]
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Apraxia
Apraxia is an impairment in the use of learned skilled movements (e.g., limb movements; speech) that occurs most often with damage affecting the left hemisphere of the brain. Apraxia is a general term for a disturbance of learned, skilled ... [... more]
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Brigance Diagnostic Inventory of Early Development
The Brigance Diagnostic Inventory of Early Development is an individually administered test that evaluates the development of children up to age seven. It is a popular readiness and screening test and is often used to identify children with ... [... more]
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