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Early Intervention

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Coincident with our increasing capacity for conquering physical disease we have become sensitized to our capacity for (1) prevention of many physical and psychological disorders and (2) the mitigation of their effects on the quality of life for affected individuals. Our attitudes toward handicap and disease have been changing rapidly in the past two decades. Prevention, intervention, quality of life are becoming catchwords for the disciplines which are concerned with medical and psychological disorders. Plasticity, the capacity of a developing organism to find pathways around a deficit, has dawned upon many researchers and clinicians as if it were a new concept. Often this “new” awareness has come without a deep enough understanding of its mechanisms.

The author is supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the National Institute of Mental Health, and the William T. Grant Foundation.

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  1. Child Development Unit, Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, USA

    T. Berry Brazelton M.D.

  2. Harvard Medical School, 333 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, 02115, USA

    T. Berry Brazelton M.D.

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  1. Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

    Hiram E. Fitzgerald Ph.D. (Professor of Psychology) (Professor of Psychology)

  2. Child Development Unit, Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Barry M. Lester Ph.D. (Director of Developmental Research, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics) (Director of Developmental Research, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics)

  3. Harvard Medical School, 333 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Barry M. Lester Ph.D. (Director of Developmental Research, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics) (Director of Developmental Research, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics)

  4. Child Development Unit, Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Boston, 333 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Michael W. Yogman M.D. (Associate Chief, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics) (Associate Chief, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics)

  5. Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 333 Longwood Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Michael W. Yogman M.D. (Associate Chief, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics) (Associate Chief, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics)

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Brazelton, T.B. (1982). Early Intervention. In: Fitzgerald, H.E., Lester, B.M., Yogman, M.W. (eds) Theory and Research in Behavioral Pediatrics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0442-3_1

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