Observing and Promoting Normative Developmental Outcomes: Reciprocity is Key

Promoting Developmental Outcomes of Premature Infants by the Creating Opportunities for Parent Empowerment (COPE)

Objective: Premature neonates are at greater risk for developmental problems such as cerebral palsy, delays in development, hearing problems, and problems seeing. The challenge encountering healthcare professionals who support preterm neonates and their parents is not only a matter of ensuring neonates survival, but to optimize infant development. Interventions to reduce adverse health outcomes...

Developmental Normativity and Normative Development

Development is guided by multiple norms, and further normativities emerge in development. This should be a commonplace observation — after all, it characterizes the core dialectic of developmental processes — but normativity is instead a perplexing and sometimes desperately ignored aspect of development. I will address some reasons why normativity is so perplexing, reasons that begin with Parme...

Developmental Outcomes of Premature and Low Birth Weight Infants

Background: Prematurity is the most common cause of death and disability And Preterm infants, are prone to developmental complications. For this reason this study was designed for follow up of these babies until 2 years by modified DDST-2. Methods: This study was a prospective longitudinal descriptive study from March 2009 to March 2011 in clinic of sheikh and Imam Reza Hospitals, mashhad, Iran...

Developmental dysfluency: early intervention is key.

Recordkeeping alters economic history by promoting reciprocity.

We experimentally demonstrate a causal link between recordkeeping and reciprocal exchange. Recordkeeping improves memory of past interactions in a complex exchange environment, which promotes reputation formation and decision coordination. Economies with recordkeeping exhibit a beneficially altered economic history where the risks of exchanging with strangers are substantially lessened. Our fin...