Ames, Louise Bates.

Child psychologist and educator. Born 1908; died 1996.

From the description of Louise Bates Ames papers, 1915-1996 (bulk 1950-1975). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981093

Biographical Note

• 1908, Oct. 29: Born, Portland, Maine
• 1930: Married Smith Whittier Ames (divorced 1937) B.A., University of Maine, Orono, Maine
• 1933: M.A., University of Maine, Orono, Maine
• 1933 - 1936 : Research secretary and personal assistant to Arnold Gesell, Clinic of Child Development, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
• 1936: Ph.D., Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
• 1938: Produced first film, "How Behavior Grows: The Sequential Patterning of Prone Progression"
• 1940 - 1944 : Instructor, Clinic of Child Development, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
• 1943: Published with Arnold Gesell, Frances Lillian Ilg, and Janet Learned Infant and Child in the Culture of Today: The Guidance of Development in Home and Nursery School (New York: Harper & Brothers. 405 pp.)
• 1944 - 1950 : Assistant Professor and curator of the Yale Films of Child Development, Clinic of Child Development, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
• 1946: Published with Arnold Gesell, Frances Lillian Ilg, and Glenna E. Bullis Child from Five to Ten (New York: Harper & Brothers. 458 pp.)
• 1950: Founded with Frances Lillian Ilg the Gesell Institute of Child Development, New Haven, Conn.
• 1950 - 1968 : Director of research and secretary-treasurer, Gesell Institute of Child Development, New Haven, Conn.
• 1951 - 1973 : Coauthor of syndicated newspaper column Child Behavior (after 1962 called Parents Ask)
• 1952 - 1955 : Weekly television series, Child Behavior
• 1960 - 1961 : Weekly television series, The Gesell Institute Reports: Your Child and You
• 1965: Published with Frances Lillian Ilg School Readiness: Behavior Tests Used at the Gesell Institute (New York: Harper & Row. 396 pp.)
• 1968: Associate director and chief psychologist, Gesell Institute of Child Development, New Haven, Conn.
• 1970: Published Child Care and Development (Philadelphia: Lippincott Co. 426 pp.)
• 1971 - 1977 : Codirector, Gesell Institute of Child Development, New Haven, Conn.
• 1973: Published Rorschach Responses in Old Age (New York: Brunner/Mazel. 219 pp.)
• 1974: Published with Joan Ames Chase Don't Push Your Pre-schooler (New York: Harper & Row. 212 pp.)
• 1976: Published series on child development with Frances Lillian Ilg, beginning with Your Two-Year-Old: Terrible or Tender (New York: Delacorte Press. 149 pp.)
• 1978: Gesell Institute of Child Development, New Haven, Conn., renamed Gesell Institute of Human Development, New Haven, Conn.
• 1989: Published Arnold Gesell: Themes of His Work (New York: Human Sciences Press. 334 pp.)
• 1990: Reaffiliation of the Gesell Institute of Human Development with Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
• 1991: Lecturer, Child Study Center, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
• 1996, Oct. 31: Died, Cincinnati, Ohio

From the guide to the Louise Bates Ames Papers, 1915-1989, (bulk 1950-1975), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)