John Lute has given permission to post his origianl message to WIC Talk to Lactnet. -----Original Message----- From: John L. Lute [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 9:37 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [WIC-TALK] Denver II Development Assessment Tool - Antagonistic to Breast-feeding To those interested in promoting public health through breast-feeding get a load of this outrage -- Denver Developmental Materials, Inc., P.O. Box 6919, Denver, Colorado 80206-0919, has a developmental screening tool called Denver II Developmental Screening. One of its assessments is a task called "Feed the Baby". For this task, a doll and a toy bottle are placed on a table in front of the child. The child is told to "feed the baby". The tester is told to pass the child if the child places the bottle to the doll's mouth or obviously tries to put it to the mouth. If the child imitates breast-feeding, the tester is to encourage the use of the bottle as breast-feeding alone is not considered a pass! From one dedicated to improving public health through the encouragement of breast-feeding -- Thumbs Down to Denver Developmental Materials. *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html