Early Child Care

Early Child Care is about the very young child--infant, toddler, and early preschool--in today's world

Stuart Piggott

I: A New Look at the Young Child: Development and Individuality; 1: Conceptualizing the Early Environment; 2: The First Year of Life: The Infant; 3: Development During the Second Year: The One-Year-Old; 4: The Third Year of Life: The Two-Year-Old; 5: Individualization of Child Care and Its Relation to Environment; part II Translating Child Care Goals into Procedural Terms; 6: Assessment of Infants and Young Children; 7: The Role of Stimulation in Models for Child Development; 8: On Designing the Functional Environment of the Child to Facilitate Behavioral Development; part III Contemporary Programs and Strategics; 9: Poor Families and Their Patterns of Child Care: Some Implications For Service Programs; 10: Group Care of Infants in Other Countries; part IV New Research in the Prevention of Culturally Determined Retardation; 11: The Children's Hospital in Washington, D.C.; 12: The Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center; 13: The Yale Child Study Center Project; 14: The Children's Center in Syracuse, New York; Epilogue Implications for Future Planning