This is the first comprehensive book to cover the many domains of adolescent brain development, stretching from cognitive to affective to social development.

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book sets out to integrate recent exciting research on the precursors of reading and early reading strategies adopted by children in the classroom.

For students of developmental psychology, this book should be a useful reference guide to the main concepts concerned with "motherese", scaffolding, socio-cognitive learning and joint problem solving.

This book suggests that all children, deaf or hearing, come to language-learning ready to develop precisely these language properties.

This book sets out to integrate recent exciting research on the precursors of reading and early reading strategies adopted by children in the classroom.

This text situates siblings in their historical, developmental and family context, considers the influence of siblings on children’s development and adjustment, and provides an introduction to new research on siblings in diverse contexts.

This book is about the ideas that parents bring to the "work" of parenting: the nature of these ideas, their sources, and their consequences.

This book provides a state-of-the-art account of how people's subjective sense of national identity, and attitudes towards countries and national groups, develop through the course of childhood and adolescence.

Reading Acquisition and Developmental Dyslexia sheds new light on dyslexia and its relationship with reading acquisition, presenting two unique advancements in this area.