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This access code card provides a 6 month subscription to the video-enhanced Pearson eText for Early Childhood Development, 6/e. At the end of your subscription, you have the option to extend your access at a reduced cost. Early Childhood Development: A Multicultural Perspective, 6/e addresses both typical and atypical child development from birth through age eight. This text highlights the diversity of child development, preparing professionals to meet the unique needs of children from a wide variety of backgrounds. * A new emphasis on neuroscience and brain research helps us to understand so much better how children think, learn, feel, and behave. * Every chapter includes at least one new section on how the brain contributes to advances in physical, cognitive, linguistic, social, or emotional development across age groups. * An extensive section on assessment has been added. * Clinical and classroom-based methods for assessing learning and development of young children are presented. * The use of assessment data in teaching and parenting are fully explored. * A more extensive examination of toddlerhood, as a distinct period of development, is included.
Newly-discovered advancements of children between the ages of 18 months and 3 years are profiled. * The book contains discussions of more than 800 new research studies and articles on early childhood development that have been published since the last edition.
List of contents
1 Studying Early Childhood Development in a Diverse World 2 Research and Assessment in Early Childhood Development 3 Theories of Child Development 4 Genetics, Prenatal Development, and Birth 5 The Newborn 6 Physical Growth of Infants and Toddlers 7 Cognitive Development of Infant and Toddlers 8 Infant and Toddler Language and Literacy 9 Infant and Toddler Social and Emotional Development 10 Preschool Physical and Motor Development 11 Cognitive Development in the Preschool Years 12 Symbolic Thought: Play, Language, and Literacy in the Preschool Years 13 Social and Emotional Development of Preschoolers 14 Physical Growth and Motor Development in the Primary Years 15 Cognitive Development in the Primary Years 16 Language and Literacy in the Primary Years 17 Social and Emotional Development in the Primary Years 18 Parents, Families, and Children: A Multicultural Perspective
