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Motor Atypicalities in Infancy Are Associated with General Developmental Level at 2 Years, but Not Autistic Symptoms
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Achermann, Sheila; Nyström, Pär; Bölte, Sven; Falck-Ytter, Terje – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2020
Atypical motor development has frequently been reported in infants at elevated likelihood for autism spectrum disorder. However, no previous study has used detailed motion capture technology to compare infant siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder and infant siblings with no familial history of autism spectrum disorder. We investigated…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Infants, Toddlers
The Influence of Culture in Infant-Toddler Child Care Settings
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Test, Joan – ZERO TO THREE, 2015
It is not only in families that young children are influenced to become members of their culture. Around the world and within individual countries, culture influences how care is provided to infants and toddlers in child care settings. In turn, infants and toddlers begin to learn how to act and think as members of their culture. From ways that…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Child Care, Cultural Influences
Adding Learning Resources: A Study of Two Toddlers' Modes and Trajectories of Participation in Early Childhood Education
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Kultti, Anne – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2015
This study focuses on the nature of children's participation in an Australian early childhood context in which their second language is used. The aim is to create knowledge of toddlers' modes and trajectories of participation. Empirical data documenting the participation of two toddlers were gathered through video observations of everyday…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Toddlers, Child Development
Parallel Bimodal Bilingual Acquisition: A Hearing Child Mediated in a Deaf Family
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Cramér-Wolrath, Emelie – Sign Language Studies, 2013
The aim of this longitudinal case study was to describe bimodal and bilingual acquisition in a hearing child, Hugo, especially the role his Deaf family played in his linguistic education. Video observations of the family interactions were conducted from the time Hugo was 10 months of age until he was 40 months old. The family language was Swedish…
Descriptors: Deafness, Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Sign Language
Sequential Bimodal Bilingual Acquisition: Mediation Using a Cochlear Implant as a Tool
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Cramér-Wolrath, Emelie – Deafness and Education International, 2013
Most deaf children are born to hearing families. During the last twenty years deaf children, in increasing numbers and at an early age, receive a cochlear implant, a highly technological hearing device. The aim of this qualitative, longitudinal, single-case study was to explore and describe critical changes in naturalistic, video-observed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Deafness, Assistive Technology
Increasing the Competence of Staff Dealing with Young Children.
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Palmerus, Kerstin; Pramling, Ingrid – 1991
This paper reports on a study designed to increase the psychological and educational knowledge of day care staff and develop content and methods appropriate for toddlers in day care settings. Preschool teachers and nursery nurses in three day care centers participated. They were interviewed at the beginning of the study, and 19 months later at the…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Development, Competency Based Teacher Education, Day Care Centers