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Ilari, Beatriz; Moura, Auro; Bourscheidt, Luis – Music Education Research, 2011
The purpose of this study was to investigate musical parenting of infants and toddlers in Brazil. Forty-three Brazilian mothers were interviewed on musical experience and preferences, beliefs and uses of music with their children. Results suggest that mothers appear to be caught between two main forces: the natural human urge to interact,…
Descriptors: Music Education, Mothers, Child Rearing, Toddlers
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DiCarlo, Cynthia F.; Schepis, Maureen M.; Flynn, Linda – Infants and Young Children, 2009
Playing with toys as a means of environmental engagement has long been considered important in early child development (D. J. Messer, D. Rachford, M. E. McCarthy, & L. J. Yarrow, 1987; M. Wolery, M. G. Werts, & M. Holcombe, 1994). However, children with highly significant disabilities often engage in toy play less frequently than their peers…
Descriptors: Play, Disabilities, Toddlers, Toys
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Nazzi, Thierry; Floccia, Caroline; Moquet, Berangere; Butler, Joseph – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2009
Using a name-based categorization task, Nazzi found in 2005 that French-learning 20-month-olds can make use of one-feature consonantal contrasts between new labels but fail to do so with one-feature vocalic contrasts. This asymmetry was interpreted as developmental evidence for the proposal that consonants play a more important role than vowels at…
Descriptors: Infants, French, English, Child Language
Bowman, Barbara; Weissbourd, Bernice – Zero to Three (J), 2010
The importance and influence of grandparents in the lives of infants and toddlers is reflected in the results of the recent ZERO TO THREE "Parenting Infants and Toddlers Today" survey. In this article, the authors explore the changing role of grandparents in today's society and how the quality of the relationships between grandparents and their…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Infants, Grandparents, Young Children
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Shohet, Cilly; Klein, Pnina S. – Early Child Development and Care, 2010
The objective of this study was to examine the effects of variations in presentation of play materials on social behaviour of 18- to 30-month-old children. The study group included 102 children attending infant and toddler classes in 14 public childcare centres in Israel. Play materials were presented to the children either in a suggestive manner…
Descriptors: Child Care, Play, Toddlers, Infants
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Cipriano, Elizabeth A.; Stifter, Cynthia A. – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2010
This longitudinal study assessed whether maternal behavior and emotional tone moderated the relationship between toddler temperament and preschooler's effortful control. Maternal behavior and emotional tone were observed during a parent-child competing demands task when children were 2 years of age. Child temperament was also assessed at 2 years…
Descriptors: Mothers, Toddlers, Personality Traits, Emotional Development
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Tomasello, Nicole M.; Manning, Amy R.; Dulmus, Catherine N. – Journal of Family Social Work, 2010
Almost 300,000 children in the United States from birth to 3 years of age are affected by a developmental disability. Disabilities have a lasting effect on a child's development and, in turn, may have a psychosocial impact on the child's family. In addition, the limitations of a child with a disability are often related to family members' stress,…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Helplessness, Developmental Disabilities, Toddlers
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Brown, Jennifer A.; Woods, Juliann J. – Journal of Early Intervention, 2012
Collaborative early intervention (EI) service delivery is enhanced by professional development focused on knowledge and skills in the content and process of delivering services. This article describes a multicomponent online professional development course designed to build infant toddler specialists' capacity to support children with…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Early Intervention, Caregivers, Coaching (Performance)
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Veness, Carly; Prior, Margot; Bavin, Edith; Eadie, Patricia; Cini, Eileen; Reilly, Sheena – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2012
Prospective questionnaire data from a longitudinal population sample on children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), developmental delay, specific language impairment, or typical development (TD), were collected at ages eight, 12 and 24 months, via the Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scale Developmental Profile (CSBS)--Infant Toddler…
Descriptors: Autism, Language Impairments, Young Children, Comparative Analysis
Newton, Emily K.; Thompson, Ross A. – Zero to Three (J), 2010
Parents responding to the ZERO TO THREE Parenting Infants and Toddlers Today poll showed excellent understanding of early childhood development, but they also underestimated young infants' emotional sensitivity and overestimated toddlers' capacities for self-regulation. This article reviews these results along with research findings on the complex…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Toddlers, Infants, Emotional Development
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Johansson, Eva; Emilson, Anette – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2010
The purpose of this article is to point to some patterns dealt with in Swedish research with 1 to 3-year-old children in preschool. The analyses focus on questions posed, theoretical perspectives, methods and results. The results give a unique picture of how toddlers participate, interact and communicate while engaged in how to master various…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Toddlers, Educational Research, Literature Reviews
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Kidwell, Mardi – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
This article examines how very young children in a day care center make use of their peers' gaze shifts to differentially locate and prepare for the possibility of a caregiver intervention during situations of their biting, hitting, pushing, and the like. At issue is how the visible character of a gaze shift--that is, the manner in which it is…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Eye Movements, Nonverbal Communication, Peer Relationship
Goodman, Miranda; Tomasello, Michael – Zero to Three, 2008
From a surprisingly young age, children are capable of a level of sophisticated social understanding and interaction for which they are rarely given credit. Indeed, beginning as early as 9 months, children are gaining the skills needed to become active members of the unique culture and society into which they are born. This article explores the…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Developmental Psychology, Child Psychology, Developmental Stages
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Usfar, Avita A.; Iswarawanti, Dwi N.; Davelyna, Devy; Dillon, Drupadi – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2010
Objective: To examine caregivers' perceptions and practices related to food and personal hygiene and its association with diarrhea in children 6 to 36 months of age who suffered recurrent diarrhea. Design: This qualitative study, conducted in March and April 2006, used both in-depth interviews and direct observation data. Setting: Urban Tangerang,…
Descriptors: Mother Attitudes, Family Income, Prevention, Caregiver Attitudes
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Snapp-Childs, Winona; Corbetta, Daniela – Infancy, 2009
Learning to walk is a dynamic process requiring the fine coordination, assembly, and balancing of many body segments at once. For the young walker, coordinating all these behavioral levels may be quite daunting. In this study, we examine the whole-body strategies to which infants resort to produce their first independent steps and progress over…
Descriptors: Infants, Psychomotor Skills, Toddlers, Human Body
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