The article, "morphosyntactic peculiarities of the speech of children with Down's syndrome", treats, important aspects of the study of two adjacent branches of linguistics, namely, psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics-Language development of the child accompanied by speech disorders, on the other hand, those morphosyntactic features…

Objectives: The purpose of the pilot study was to investigate the effects of a mother-participated sports activities on the awareness levels of mothers having children with intellectual disabilities (ID) towards the effects of sports. Method: The study group constituted 24 mothers having children with ID. Participants were randomly allocated into…

The emotional needs of gifted children are seldom considered by psychologists either during their training or in their subsequent professional practices. Most psychology trainees appear to be exposed only to the Terman (1925) studies which concluded that gifted children have significantly fewer social and emotional problems than does the general…

It has long been recognized that childhood socialization occurs mainly through relationships with others, but only within the last decade or so can it be said that the study of relationships has become central to developmental psychology. As young children grow older, their sphere of relationships extends beyond the primary caretakers, and perhaps…

Self-regulation is increasingly considered as an important factor for child development. The present, nine-year, longitudinal study (N = 782) examines two components of self-regulation as predictors of later disciplinary status, anti-social involvement, and experiences with victimization. The teacher rating of self-regulation was identified as a…

A plea for the improvement of mental health services for children is presented in this paper, which claims that children's needs in general are not adequately recognized. Quoting from a report of the Joint Commission on Mental Health of Children, the paper cites growing concern over the number of mentally ill and emotionally disturbed children in…

In this exploratory study, we documented teachers' knowledge of children's mathematical thinking as they engaged in the task of anticipating children's strategies for an equal sharing fraction problem. To elicit an array of knowledge, 18 teachers were deliberately selected with a variety of numbers of years participating in professional…

We all have mental health. Mental health relates to how we think, feel, behave and interact with other people. At its simplest, good mental health is the absence of a mental disorder or mental health problem. Adults, children and young people with good mental health are likely to have high levels of mental wellbeing. The World Health Organisation…

When asked to draw different kinds of triangles, children reveal many creative ways to express variety. In this paper, the drawings of 81 children in the age between 4 and 6 will be examined and illustrated what kind of understanding of the concept "triangle" precedes the drawings. Therefore, different categories of the children's…

This paper examines the implementation of an instructional module on Preservice Elementary Teachers' (PSETs) professional noticing of children's mathematical thinking as defined by Jacobs, Lamb, and Philipp (2010). The module focuses on professional noticing skills through the content focus of early algebraic reasoning and uses complex video…

To perceive the incongruous in fiction, children must have internalized the events of the everyday world. Then they can appreciate the kind of joke "frame" (or pattern) that exists in literature. Elements of humor were tested in a study of eight and nine year old children in England and the United States--22 in each country. Selections from eight…

Prospective teachers (PTs), enrolled in a mathematics methods course, were asked to analyze children's mathematical thinking by viewing videotaped clinical interviews over the course of an entire semester. They were also asked to conduct two of their own interviews with children as the semester progressed. While the type of analysis varied, all of…

This research investigates the question of what growth, if any, is shown by teachers in identifying the components of children's reasoning using an upper and lower bounds argument for a fraction task. Specifically, it reports on assessment outcomes from design-based research in teacher education that measures teachers' identification of children's…

My responsibilities for the Future of School Psychology Conference were twofold. First, I was to discuss the critical issues that children face or will face as we move into the 2000s. My second task was to propose roles for school psychology, within the constraints of the shortage, to address these issues.

This study explores the hypothesis that experience with children's mathematical thinking facilitates the development of teachers' professional knowledge. Multilevel models of a data set representative of US public institutions preparing K-6 teachers from the Teacher Education and Development Survey in Mathematics (Brese & Tatto, 2012)…