Ruby Sisson Library

Each item in this Brain Box offers a stimulating opportunity that is designed to be a SHARED ACTIVITY time between an adult and a young child. Experts from various fields have reviewed each activity to assure that it is appropriated for the age/stage designated.

Each item in this Brain Box offers a stimulating opportunity that is designed to be a SHARED ACTIVITY Time between an adult and a young child. Experts from various fields have reviewed each activity to assure that it is appropriate for the age/stage designated.

Each item in this Brain Box offers a stimulating opportunity that is designed to be a SHARED ACTIVITY Time between an adult and a young child. Experts from various fields have reviewed each activity to assure that it is appropriate for the age/stage designated.

"The fascinating-and eerily timely-tale of the forgotten Depression-era psychologists who overthrew long-accepted racist and classist views of childhood development. "Doomed from birth" was how psychologist Harold Skeels described two toddler girls at the Orphans' Home in Davenport, Iowa, in 1934. Following prevailing eugenic beliefs, Skeels and his colleague Marie Skodak assumed that the girls had inherited their parents' low intelligence and sent...