Sheets, Gesell Developmental Schedules. Form 5
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content: Psychological Corporation
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content: A. Gesell and Associates
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content: Materials under this number include , inn addition to a summary cover sheet, several sheets, each labeled “Gesell Developmental Schedules.” These are:
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content: 1. Form 1A – for key ages of 4 weeks and 8 weeks – a list of motor, adaptive, language, and personal-social skills to be noted – number 1/21
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content: 2. Form 1B – for key ages of 12 weeks, 16 weeks, and 20 weeks – same categories of skills, different specific skills – number 2/21
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content: 3. Form 1C – for 24 weeks, 28 weeks, and 32 weeks – same categories of skills, different specific skills- number 3/21
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content: 4. Form 1D – for key ages 36 weeks, 40 weeks, 44 weeks – same categories of skills, different specific skills – number 4/21
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content: 5. Form 1E – for key ages 48 weeks. 52 weeks. 56 weeks – same categories of skills, different specific skills – number 5/21
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content: 6. Form 1F – for key ages 15 months, 18 months, and 21 months – same categories of skills, different specific skills – number 6/21
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content: 7. Form 1G – for key ages 21 months, 24 months, 30 months – same categories of skills, different specific skills – number 7/21
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content: 8. Form 1H – for key ages 30 months, 36 months, 42 months – same categories of skills, different specific skills – number 8/21
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content: 9. Form 1I – for key ages 42 months, 48 months, 54 months – same categories of skills, different specific skills – number 9/21.
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content: The author, Wisconsin-born Arnold L. Gesell (1880-1961) received his undergraduate degree (1903) from the University of Wisconsin, taught school for a time, and then did graduate work at Clark University, obtaining his doctorate in 1906. He lived in New York, Los Angeles, and Wisconsin for a time, moving to New Haven to work toward a medical degree at Yale. By the time he received this M.D. in 1915, he had begun to offer child counseling services in New Haven. He garnered a full-time position in child hygiene on the faculty at Yale and, in 1919, begun studies of the development of normal children. These led to proposal of a set of “Developmental Schedules” that described the activities a normal infant could do at various ages. These tests were published by the Psychological Corporation from at least 1940.
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content: References:
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content: Gesell, A., “Monthly Increments of Development in Infancy,” <I>Journal of Genetic Psychology</I>, 1925, 32, pp. 203-208.
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content: Harris, Benjamin, “Gesell, Arnold Lucius (1880-1962), Psychologist and Pediatrician,” <I>American National Biography</>, 2000 (accessed May 5, 2020).
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content: Miles, Walter R., “Arnold Lucius Gesell, 1880-1961,” <I>Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences</I>, 1964, pp. 55-96, esp. p. 87. This source does not discuss developmental schedules, though reference to 1940 instructions for them are included in the bibliography.
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topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Psychological Tests
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Gift of Samuel Kavruck
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content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0034.142
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content: 1990.0034.142
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content: 1990.0034
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content: set of sheets
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: overall: 21.8 cm x 28 cm; 8 19/32 in x 11 1/32 in