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Section 1. That the state board of education is hereby authorized to establish and maintain at Iowa City as an integral part of the State University, the Iowa Child Welfare Research Station, having as its objects the investigation of the best scientific methods of conserving and developing the normal
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environment, studies in classroom management techniques that support positive outcomes, and developed collections of data regarding speech development and therapy for children with cerebral palsy. The Station also helped establish research standards for conducting research into child development.
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Section 3. That there is hereby appropriated out of the money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars annually hereafter, for the maintenance of such a station and the furtherance of the objects, to be expended under the direction of said board of
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The Station was the first institution in the world devoted to the study of the "normal child." Among its contributions to this field of knowledge, the Station conducted studies in the normal physical growth rates of children, studies in intellectual development in children and its relation to
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Section 2. That the management and control of such station shall be vested in a director appointed by the said board of education, and an advisory board of seven members to be appointed by the president of the university from the faculty of the graduate college of said university.
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directed the station for much of the 1940s. Many other eminent psychologists, physiologists, and researchers were associated with the station and its work.
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The station was founded in 1917. A leader of the Iowa Congress of Mothers (a chapter of the National Congress of Mothers, which later became the
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due to negative association amongst the public with the phrase "Child Welfare". In 1974 the Institute was closed as a research establishment.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20090103234828/http://www.uihealthcare.com/depts/medmuseum/galleryexhibits/womeninhealth/icwrs/anthro.html
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child, the dissemination of the information acquired by such investigation, and the training of students for work in such fields.
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conducted pioneering research into child development and child psychology during the 20th century. German-American psychologist
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arranged for the station to be sited at the University of Iowa and procured funding from the state legislature and the
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Directory of Local Child-Health Agencies in the United States: Bureau Publication № 108, 1922
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The Problem of Changing Food Habits Report of the Committee on Food Habits 1941-1943
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served as the first director of the station until his death on May 11, 1928.
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An Elusive Science : The Troubling History Of Education Research
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Iowa:
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Before Head Start: The Iowa Station and America's Children
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at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, archived at
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With the exception of a stint of military service during
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Pictures from the Iowa Child Welfare Research Station
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Index

Child development
Developmental psychology
Pediatrics
Iowa City, Iowa
Affiliations
University of Iowa
University of Iowa
Kurt Zadek Lewin
Robert Richardson Sears
Parent-Teacher Association
Cora Bussey Hillis
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Carl Emil Seashore
World War I
Bird Thomas Baldwin



Lagemann, Ellen Condliffe
An Elusive Science : The Troubling History Of Education Research
Chicago
University of Chicago Press
ISBN
978-0-226-46773-3
OCLC
43095768


Cantor, Joan H.
Psychology At Iowa: Centennial Essays

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