New Developmental News!

Long-awaited research providing updated norms for the Gesell Developmental Assessment for young children is providing compelling evidence that children’s basic developmental growth patterns and rates are not changing, according to news released last Friday in The Harvard Education Letter.

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Reclaiming Childhood

William Crain, professor of psychology at the City College of New York, graciously contributed the foreword to the 3rd edition of my book Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom, Ages 4-14 (NEFC, 2007).
I have long been an admirer of Dr. Crain’s major textbook in child development, Theories of Development which I certainly recommend.
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