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SRCD Today
The Society is a multidisciplinary, not-for-profit, professional association with a membership of approximately 5,500 researchers, practitioners, and human development professionals from over 50 countries.
The field of child development received formal recognition in 1922-23 through the appointment of a subcommittee on Child Development of the National Research Council. In 1925, under the direction of Robert S. Woodworth, an eminent experimental psychologist, this group became the Committee in Child Development with offices and staf... qOverview
Location: San Francisco, CA
Building type(s): Daycare, Recreation
New construction
6,080 sq. feet (565 sq. meters)
Project scope: 1-story building
Urban setting
Completed January 2002
Argonne Child Development Center is San Francisco's first solar-powered school. Since Argonne shares its site with San Francisco's largest community garden, neighbor and community participation w... Pediatricians Can Help Immigrant Mothers By Explaining Child Development, NICHD Study Suggests
Parents Need Child Development Information to Identify Problems
Groups of immigrant mothers from Japan and South America knew less about child development than did their European American counterparts, according to a study by researchers at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health.
Such gaps in parenting knowledge, the authors wrote in the November issue of Pediatrics, could have a negative impact on children’s development, with mot... Although most parents, educators, and researchers believe that children can't learn specific words until well into their second year, children younger than 1 year can, in fact, learn certain words for things that are not a regular part of their daily lives, according to new research being published in the January/February 2005 issue of the journal, Child Development.
The findings, based on research by Graham Schafer, D.Phil., of the University of Reading in Reading in the United Kingdom, suggest that what is considered a "for... |