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Recent decades have seen the emergence of many new biobehavioral assessment tools for the newborn and young infant. These instruments have tremendous utility for scientists and practitioners engaged in exploring basic questions of development, studying medical and developmental conditions that place infants at risk, diagnosing the severity of biobehavioral insult, and evaluating the effectiveness of ameliorative interventions. Yet until now there has been no single volume providing an organized, critical examination of available assessment tools. Filling a crucial gap in the literature, this book describes a wide range of approaches to evaluating growth, sensation, arousal, regulation, learning, and attention in the prenatal period and the first year of life. Leading experts describe the historical background and development of each tool; review its diagnostic, methodological, and conceptual utility; highlight strengths and limitations for different uses; and consider broader implications for understanding the development of infants at risk.

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• I Introductory Issues
• 1 General Issues in Infant Assessment and Development
• 2 Conceptual and Methodological Basis for Understanding Development and Risk in Infants
• II Prenatal Growth and Sensory Development
• 3 Fetal Neurobehavioral Assessment
• 4 Visual Acuity Assessment in Infancy
• 5 Auditory Assessment in Infancy
• III Arousal and Regulation
• 6 Vagal Tone
• 7 Sleep-Wake States as a Context for Assessment, as Components of Assessment, and as Assessment
• 8 Analysis of Infant Crying
• 9 Salivary Cortisol Measures in Infant and Child Assessment
• 10 Assessment of Temperament in Early Development
• 11 Attachment Assessment in the Strange Situation
• IV Learning and Attention
• 12 Learning and Memory in Infancy: Habituation, Instrumental Conditioning, and Expectancy Formation
• 13 Visual Information Processing
• 14 Focused Attention: Assessing a Fundamental Cognitive Process in Infancy
• 15 The A-Not-B Task
• 16 Cortical Electrophysiology and Language Processes in Infancy
• 17 Electroencephalographic Assessment and Human Brain Maturation: A Window into Emotional and Cognitive Development in Infancy
• V Standard Assessments
• 18 Behavioral Assessment Scales: The NICU Network Neurobehavioral Scale, the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale, and the Assessment of the Preterm Infant's Behavior
• 19 The Neurobehavioral Assessment of the Preterm Infant: Reliability and Developmental and Clinical Validity
• 20 Determining Functional Integrity in Neonates: A Rapid Neurobehavioral Assessment Tool
• 21 Motor Assessment
• 22 The Bayley Scales of Infant Development: Is There a Role in Biobehavioral Assessment?

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Lynn Twarog Singer, PhD,

Philip Sanford Zeskind, PhD, is Research Professor of Pediatrics at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Professor of Psychology at the University of North CarolinaCharlotte, and Director of Neurodevelopmental Research at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. For over 25 years, Dr. Zeskind has studied the effects of various prenatal and early postnatal experiences on the biobehavioral development of the fetus and young infant at risk, and how these variations in biobehavioral organization affect the future social experiences and subsequent course of infant development. Dr. Zeskind also directs the Carolinas Preterm Nursery Intervention Program (CPNIP), a family-centered program designed to improve the biobehavioral development of preterm infants while they continue to reside in the high-risk nurseries.