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ERIC Number: EJ609753
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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ISSN: ISSN-0896-3746
The Influence of Touch on Child Development: Implications for Intervention.
Blackwell, Patricia L.
Infants and Young Children, v13 n1 p25-39 Jul 2000
This article outlines historical, socio-cultural, and research information that attests to the fundamental relationship between touch and child development. It describes applications including touch therapies with very low-birthweight infants, with fragile premature infants, and with infants of depressed mothers. (Contains extensive references.) (DB)
Descriptors: Child Development, Depression (Psychology), Early Intervention, Infant Behavior, Infants, Mothers, Premature Infants, Special Health Problems, Tactile Stimuli, Tactual Perception
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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