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Download full textSt. Peters, Michelle; And Others – 1988
This study investigated several questions concerning the amount of viewing and types of programs children and parents watch alone and together. Patterns of children's viewing with and without parents were examined, as well as how parent-child coviewing affects individual family members' viewing. Children 3 to 5 and 5 to 7 years old, and their…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Longitudinal Studies, Parent Attitudes, Parent Child Relationship
Goodban, Marjorie T. – 1985
The paper describes a successful attempt to stimulate expressive language in Becky, a young child with Cornelia de Lange syndrome, a condition characterized by moderate to severe mental retardation, dwarfed stature, and excessive body hair. The child participated in infant stimulation and individual speech therapy and her expressive output has…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Communication Disorders, Expressive Language, Language Acquisition
Shore, Cecilia – 1981
Previous research has shown a similar starting time for early combinations of words and play actions in children and has suggested that similar cognitive processes underlie the transition to combining activities in language, symbolic play, and manipulative play. A study was undertaken to investigate combining activities in these three domains and…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Language Acquisition
Moran, Mary A. – 1982
Effects of children's diagnosis, setting of intervention, and involvement in parent education groups on families of 85 parents of handicapped children were investigated. Significant results were found regarding reported parent-child interaction, early intervention program suggestions, family stress, and both formal and informal family support…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Family Relationship, Mental Retardation, Parent Attitudes
Lema-Stern, Sandra – 1980
Four-, six- and eight-year-old children from an Evanston, Illinois school were the subjects for three experiments designed to evaluate the effects of color, complexity, movement, and incongruity on children's visual attention. Computer generated displays were used to: (1) assess developmental trends among the three age groups, (2) test a novel…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Child Development, Computer Graphics, Elementary Education
Birsh, Judith R. – 1980
Thirty-one eight-year-old boys were the subjects of a study to determine the relationship between language skills in infancy and reading skills at elementary school age. As infants, the boys had been taped in interaction sessions with their mothers. The level of skill development of the infants was measured according to the principles of…
Descriptors: Child Language, Correlation, Followup Studies, Language Acquisition
Van Camp, Sarah S. – 1980
This paper reports a study of cerebral dominance in 42 preschool and kindergarten children. In order to tap left hemisphere functioning, a story of approximately 650 words and 77 specific plot details was composed. Children listened to the 7 minute story and were asked to repeat it. Responses were taped. Tangram pieces were used to assess right…
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, Cognitive Processes, Language Skills, Lateral Dominance
Woodward, Virginia A. – 1980
Tracing the development of "concept of story" in one child from age three years to five years using the language experience task, a hierarchy of text/context relationships emerges. First there is the inventory stage whereby the child names and describes behaviors to objects. The second stage is descriptive and the child modifies the object and the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Development, Concept Formation, Developmental Stages
Mednick, Sarnoff A.; And Others – 1977
Reported is a research program to observe children at high risk for schizophrenia and explore possibilities of prevention. Characteristics of the high risk group (n=207) observed during 1962 are discussed, and a theory which suggests that schizophrenia is an evasion of life is explained. Among results of a diagnostic assessment conducted 10 years…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Etiology, Exceptional Child Research, Mothers
Jones, Ian; Pratt, Dave – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2005
We compare the activity of young children using a microworld and a JavaScript relational calculator with the literature on children using traditional calculators. We describe how the children constructed different meanings for the equal sign in each setting. It appears that the nature of the meaning constructed is highly dependent on specificities…
Descriptors: Calculators, Educational Technology, Young Children, Mathematical Concepts
Clark, Beverly A. – 2000
Noting the importance of language acquisition for children's physical, social, and cognitive development, this paper discusses first- and second-language acquisition in children. After providing background on second-language acquisition, the paper discusses the controversy surrounding bilingual education programs. The paper then explores what is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Cognitive Development
Vandenbroeck, Michel – 2000
Building a strong but flexible identity and learning to deal with diversity are two main educational goals for early childhood education. Because identity is replacing the older concept of race and is serving as the basis for a new form of segregation, it is necessary to redefine the terms "identity" and "cultural identity."…
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Cultural Influences, Cultural Pluralism, Definitions
Lo, Yafen; Sloutsky, Vladimir M. – 2001
This study considered differences in induction of biological properties between children and preadolescents based on differences in stimuli processing in these two groups. Two experiments tested predictions that young children, but not preadolescents, base their inductive inference on aggregating information from different sources rather than…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking
Honig, Alice Sterling – 1999
Based upon the view that parents, home visitors, and teachers in early childhood settings need tools for empowering young children to develop language, this paper examines what adults need to know to guide young children's language development and presents 20 suggestions for enhancing language growth. The paper maintains that adults need to know…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Caregiver Speech, Child Language, Early Childhood Education
Bika, Anastasia – 1997
A study observing children's participation in designing their own classroom space was based on the following framework: (1) creation of the environment and conditions necessary to enable children to express themselves constructively in a climate of acceptance; (2) support of children's need to prove and confirm their own abilities; (3)…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Cooperative Planning
