Most Recent Articles from Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence

• Ability Grouping 

  HASH(0x22c0010) Ability grouping became widely used in American schools of the 1920s as an influx of immigrants entered the school system. IQ tests...

  04/06/01 by A. Woodward · More from publication

• Adler, Alfred (1870-1937) 

  HASH(0x21813b0) Alfred Adler was born in a middle-class suburb of Vienna, Austria, in 1870 and decided on medicine as his calling at an early age....

  04/06/01 by Rosalie Wieder · More from publication

• Allowance and Money Management 

  HASH(0x22e48b0) Parents differ in their opinions about giving allowances to their children. Some parents believe that they should provide for the...

  04/06/01 by A. Woodward · More from publication

• American Sign Language (ASL) 

  HASH(0x21ddfe0) American Sign Language (ASL or Ameslan) is a language of hand gestures and symbols widely used by deaf and hearing-impaired people...

  04/06/01 · More from publication

• Anorexia Nervosa 

  HASH(0x23018f0) Anorexia nervosa is a psychiatric disorder in which a person's (usually a girl's) distorted body image leads her to believe that...

  04/06/01 · More from publication

• Apnea of Infancy 

  HASH(0x21da510) Apnea includes a temporary cessation of breathing, where breathing stops and begins again automatically after a few seconds, as...

  04/06/01 by A. Woodward · More from publication

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