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Dickson, W. Patrick; And Others – Child Development, 1979
Referential communication accuracy of mother and child pairs when the children were four years old predicted children's cognitive development one and two years later in the United States and Japan. Main effects were found to be significant even when mother IQ, SES, and child ability at age four were partialled out of the analysis. (JMB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Communication (Thought Transfer), Foreign Countries, Mothers