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Yau Yu Chan; Nirmala Rao – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
This study considered the influences of the home learning environment and preschool quality on the development of 5-year-old Chinese (N = 43) and South Asian (N = 32) children in Hong Kong. Children were recruited from two preschools--one admitted only South Asian children, and the other admitted only Chinese children. Children were assessed in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Influence, Preschool Education, Early Experience
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Xiaomei Zhou; Hasan Siddiqui; M. D. Rutherford – Child Development, 2025
Autism spectrum condition (ASC) is characterized by atypical attention to eyes and faces, but the onset and impact of these atypicalities remain unclear. This prospective longitudinal study examined face perception in infants who develop ASC (N = 22, female = 5, 100% White) compared with typically developing infants (N = 131, female = 65, 55.6%…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Nonverbal Communication, Social Cognition, Adjustment (to Environment)
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Xinwu Zhang; Xiyuan Jia; Zhaofeng Pang; Jingruo Guo; Tianli Feng; Andrew Rule; Scott Rozelle; Yue Ma – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2025
Purpose: This mixed-methods study examined how differences in parental time, knowledge, and economic constraints, as well as community socioeconomic contexts, may contribute to differences in home language environment and child language ability outcomes between peri-urban and rural households in China. Method: We conducted an explanatory…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Urban Areas, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries
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A. González-Moreira; C. Ferreira; J. Vidal – Preventing School Failure, 2025
The transition from early childhood education to primary education is, in many countries, the beginning of compulsory education. This has meant that much of the research on this transition has focused on academic aspects such as literacy or logical-mathematical competence. The lines of research have changed, and in recent years, very diverse…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Preschool Curriculum, School Readiness
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Kathrin Nystad; May Britt Drugli; Stian Lydersen; Håvard Horndalen Tveit; Ratib Lekhal; Elisabet Solheim Buøen – Early Education and Development, 2025
Research Findings: Measuring toddlers' cortisol levels both in childcare and at home and their relation to child- and childcare-related factors may help to identify stress-inducing childcare practices and children who are more vulnerable to stress in childcare. Accordingly, toddlers' (n = 320, 51.2% female, mean age = 26.8 months) cortisol levels…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Family Environment, Child Care Centers, Physiology
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Kayla LaRosa; Julia A. Ogg; Robert Dedrick; Shannon Suldo; Maria Rogers; Riley Laffoon; Courtney Weaver – School Psychology Review, 2025
Although more is known about how general parenting practices predict social-emotional strengths in children, less research has looked at parent involvement in education and children's social-emotional strengths. This study examined the extent to which parent involvement, specifically home-based involvement, parent-teacher trust, and home-school…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parent Child Relationship, Social Emotional Learning, Predictor Variables