was undertaken in an attempt to determine the special abilities and disabilities of this group as shown on the Stanford-Binet. As a preliminary investigation, a case study was made of two boys of the same chronological age who, at the time of admission, had the same mental age and I.Q. One of these boys was doing all the school work of which we would judge him capable, while the other failed to...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to validate the Actiwatch with behaviorally determined sleepe wake state in preterm infants and to explore the influence of postmenstrual age on the accuracy of Actiwatch. Methods: A prospective and comparative research design was used. Twenty-four preterm infants with postmenstrual age ranging from 28e38 weeks were studied. The infants were studied for 2 ...

Relations among specific aspects of language (comprehension and production, semantics and utterance length) and relations between language and symbolic play were evaluated when children were 13 and 20 months of age. The contributions of maternal stimulation to toddler performance and whether associations among toddler abilities might be explained by maternal behaviors were also examined. Althou...

Developmental factors direct optimal implementations of cognitive-behavioral therapy (GBT) protocols with children and adolescents. Although chronological age can approximate level of development, youthful clients benefit v̂ rhen clinicians carefully assess each child's cognitive, social, and emotional skills and adjust manualized treatments accordingly. Using several components of manualized GB...

Who cares for the nation’s infants and toddlers? For one of every two childre n under age three whose mother works, the face of the caregiver belongs to a family member—a parent or a relative. This pattern has held steady for decades, despite dramatic changes in families and child care options. Mothers (and grandmothers) have increasingly entered the labor forc e , d i v o rce and single parent...

condition but showed no difference between games in the object condition, the children showed no difference between games in the abstract condition but made fewer errors in Game 1 of the object condition. This effect was larger for the younger children. The Effects of Verbal and Nonverbal Ability in the SOPT A significant main effect of condition suggests that verbal factors are playing a role ...

Objectives: The purpose of this study was for evaluation of relationship between hand function and age, sex by Jebson Taylor Test.This study determined whether age might be a factor when associated with sex. Methods: In this study Jebson Taylor was evaluated on hand in 180 normal males and females (0.50% male, 0.50% female) in each of the following 7 subtest in 3 age groups: (15-25), (35-45)...

Many different functional roles have been ascribed to the motor system due to its prevalent recruitment in perceptual and cognitive tasks other than motor production. We discuss findings that suggest the motor system might take on multiple roles that vary with context and the brain networks involved. Using single-pulse TMS, we measured the corticospinal excitability of the FDI muscle in primary...

The specificity and sensitivity of the phallometric test of an erotic preference for minors was assessed. The specificity was determined to be 96.9% if using a group of sex offenders against female adults and 80.6% if using a group of paid volunteers. Test results of 27 sex offenders against at least 2 female children each and of 22 offenders against at least 2 male minors each (either against ...

Although screening policies for older drivers based on chronological age are widely used in many countries, previous research has shown that increasing age does not cause higher crash rates and that consequently, chronological age per se is at best only a weak predictor of safe driving performance. Previous research on age-based mandatory screening of older drivers has not been able to demonstr...