With Spectrum Let’s Learn Colors & Shapes toddlers build fine motor skills while learning color and shape recognition. This hands-on workbook offers step-by-step instructions for parents working with children ages 2 and up with engaging activities to delight the youngest learners. Its 64 full-color pages will captivate children while enhancing their fine motor skills and learn important skills necessary for preschool and kindergarten.

• Ideal for babies and toddlers

Completely updated, the 3rd edition of this practical, highly portable manual offers quick access to the most relevant health and wellness information for children -- from birth through age 21 – in the school setting. You'll find valuable guidance on developmental stages, learning domains, acute and chronic illnesses, first aid, medical syndromes, special education, and emergency illness. This edition also addresses the growing array of issues affecting today's children, including mental health disorders, disaster management, substance abuse, and school violence, as well as new threats such as West Nile virus, dermatological conditions, and the reemergence of tuberculosis. Ideal for use in school and community settings, this manual is a must-have resource for anyone who works with children. - A best practice approach to health issues and concerns helps you provide the best possible care to students. - A clear, consistent outline format and straightforward writing style make it easy to locate and apply essential information. - Updated content includes important contemporary issues in schools, such as body piercing, backpack syndrome, and computer ergonomics. - Brain Findings section offers relevant information about recent brain and neurology research, with insights on how it relates to childhood development and health. - Numerous appendices, including the latest growth charts and immunization schedules, provide essential information for assessing school age children. - English-Spanish translation guide for common health terms and phrases helps you communicate more effectively with Hispanic students. - Web site resources at the end of each chapter provide reliable sources for further information and research. - A convenient Glossary familiarizes you with important terminology and definitions used throughout the book. - New, user-friendly design helps you find key information quickly with helpful boxes, tables, and headings. - New 8-page color insert serves as an instant visual reference to help you identify rashes, skin lesions, and other dermatological conditions that are common among school-age children. - A separate chapter on first aid walks you through the management of common injuries and emergency situations. - Revised mental health chapter presents current, detailed information on the major mental disorders that affect school-age children such as depression, autism, and Asperger's, with an extensive psychotropic medication table. - A new chapter devoted to disaster management includes the latest information on bioterrorism and homeland security threats to help you create an action plan for disaster situations. - A revised chapter on violence addresses sexual assault, self-mutilation, suicide, domestic violence, and violence in the schools, to help you stay informed about current societal trends, issues, and developments. - New information on teen pregnancy offers helpful guidelines on communicating with students about this important issue.

This volume features the complete text of the material presented at the Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Papers have been loosely grouped by topic and an author index is provided in the back. As in previous years, the symposium included an interesting mixture of papers on many topics from researchers with diverse backgrounds and different goals, presenting a multifaceted view of cognitive science. In hopes of facilitating searches of this work, an electronic index on the Internet's World Wide Web is provided. Titles, authors, and summaries of all the papers published here have been placed in an online database which may be freely searched by anyone. You can reach the web site at: www-csli.stanford.edu/cogsci97.

Contains 130 papers, which were selected based on originality, technical contribution, and relevance. Although the papers were not formally refereed, every attempt was made to verify the main claims. It is expected that most will appear in more complete form in scientific journals. The proceedings also includes the paper presented by invited plenary speaker Ronald Graham, as well as a portion of the papers presented by invited plenary speakers Udi Manber and Christos Papadimitriou.