Table of Contents

Part 1 The World of Childhood as Seen by Adults; Chapter 1 Developmental Stages; Chapter 2 Critical Periods; Chapter 3 The Neural Substrate; Chapter 4 Motor Development; Chapter 5 Psychosexual and Psychosocial Development; Chapter 6 Cognitive Development; Chapter 7 Language Development; Chapter 8 Drawing Behavior; Chapter 9 Developmental Arrest; Chapter 10 Regression; Chapter 11 Concept and Object Relations; Part 2 The World as Seen Through the Eyes of Children; Chapter 12 We Speak to Children; Chapter 13 Children Speak to Us; Chapter 14 Creativity; Chapter 15 Child Art as a Unifying Principle; Part 3 Synthesis; Chapter 16 A Developmental Perspective; Chapter 17 Integration: Correlations and Relationships; Chapter 18 A Synoptic View of Child Development;

About the Author

Joseph H. Di Leo was Director of the Developmental Clinic of the New York Foundling Hospital, Assis­tant Clinical Professor of-Pediatrics at New York University School of Medicine, and Lecturer in the Department of Special Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City. He pub­lished extensively in the fields of child development, brain dysfunction, ,md children's drawings.