Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover; Home Environment and Early Cognitive Development: Longitudinal Research; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1. Issues concerning the Relationship between Home Environment and Early Cognitive Development; References; Chapter 2. 174 Children: A Study of the Relationship between Home Environment and Cognitive Development during the First 5 Years; The Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) Inventory; Longitudinal Observation and Intervention Study; HOME and Family Demographics; Correlations with Cognitive Development
  • Correlations with Language PerformanceStability of the Home Environment and Early Cognitive Development; HOME-IQ Correlation: Direct or Indirect Relationship; HOME, SES, Family Structure, and Cognitive Abilities; Summary; References; Chapter 3. Home Environment and Cognitive Development in Young Children of Middle-Socioeconomic-Status Families; Introduction; Method; Results; Discussion; References; Chapter 4. Home Environment and Cognitive Development in a Healthy, Low-Risk Sample: The Seattle Study; Introduction; Method; Results; Discussion; References
  • Chapter 5. Home Environment and Early Cognitive Development in Mexican-American ChildrenIntroduction; Parent-Child Development Center; Program Evaluation Procedures; Item Analysis; Determinants of Home Scores at Child-Age 12 Months; The Construct Validity of HOME; Program Evaluation; Cognitive Prediction; Summary; References; Chapter 6. Home Environmental Influences on Cognitive Development in Preterm and Full-term Children during the First 5 Years; Introduction; Method; Results; Conclusions; Summary; References
  • Chapter 7. Home Environment and Cognitive Competence in Preterm Children during the First 5 YearsIntroduction; Method; Results; Discussion; Summary of Findings; References; Chapter 8. Proximal Experience and Early Cognitive-Intellectual Development: The Social Environment; Research Overview; Method; Discussion; Some Closing Thoughts on the Nature of Early Environmental Action; References; Chapter 9. Home Environment and Early Cognitive Development: Integration, Meta-analyses, and Conclusions; Home Environment; Home Environment and Cognitive Development; References
  • Chapter 10. Home Environment and Early Cognitive Development: Implications for InterventionIntroduction; The Empirical Bases for Intervention; General Systems Theory as a Framework for Intervention; Conclusions; References; Author Index; Subject Index