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Emiddia Longobardi; Pietro Spataro; Martina Calabrò; Matilde Brunetti; Mara Morelli; Fiorenzo Laghi – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
We report two studies that investigated the continuity and stability of maternal mind-mindedness (MM) across different times, contexts, and relationships, and also examined child communicative development in the second year of life. Three main findings emerged. First, the percentages of appropriate mind-related comments (AMRC) decreased between 16…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Mothers, Communication Skills, Toddlers
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Tan, Lin; Volling, Brenda L.; Gonzalez, Richard; LaBounty, Jennifer; Rosenberg, Lauren – Child Development, 2022
Emotion understanding develops rapidly in early childhood. Firstborn children (N = 231, 55% girls/45% boys, 86% White, 5% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Latinx, Mage = 29.92 months) were recruited into a longitudinal study from 2004 to 2008 in the United States and administered a series of tasks assessing eight components of young children's emotion…
Descriptors: Child Development, Emotional Development, Siblings, Family Structure
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Gurgand, Lilas; Lamarque, Loïa; Havron, Naomi; Bernard, Jonathan Y.; Ramus, Franck; Peyre, Hugo – Developmental Science, 2023
The number of older siblings a child has is negatively correlated with the child's verbal skills, an effect that is well known in the literature. However, few studies have examined the effect of older siblings' sex, of the age gap between siblings, of having foreign-speaking parents, as well as the mediating role of parental interaction. Using…
Descriptors: Birth Order, Language Acquisition, Toddlers, Foreign Countries
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Gendler-Shalev, Hila; Dromi, Esther – Journal of Child Language, 2022
This article presents data on lexical development of 881 Israeli Hebrew-speaking monolingual toddlers ages 1;0 to 2;0. A Web-based version of the Hebrew MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (H-MB-CDI) was used for data collection. Growth curves for expressive vocabulary, receptive vocabulary, actions and gestures were…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Acquisition, Toddlers, Computer Assisted Testing
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Khan, Jahidur Rahman; Awan, Nabil; Sheikh, Md Tuhin – Child Care in Practice, 2022
Infant and young child feeding (IYCF) is crucial for the growth, development, and survival of a child. This study aims to examine the factors associated with IYCF practices among the under-2 aged children in Bangladesh and spatial variability. A total of 2336 children aged 6-23 months were selected from the 2014 Bangladesh Demographic and Health…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Toddlers, Nutrition
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Pham, Cindy; Symeonides, Christos; O'Hely, Martin; Sly, Peter D.; Knibbs, Luke D.; Thomson, Sarah; Vuillermin, Peter; Saffery, Richard; Ponsonby, Anne-Louise – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2022
Mounting evidence finds that early life environmental factors increased the probability of autism spectrum disorder. We estimated prospective associations between early life environmental factors and autism spectrum disorder symptoms in children at the age of 2 years in a population-derived birth cohort, the Barwon Infant Study. Autism spectrum…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Preschool Children, Toddlers