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Peleman, Brecht; Hulpia, Hester; Bergeron-Morin, Lisandre – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2023
Although childcare professionals play a crucial role in creating stimulating environments for multilingual infants and toddlers and in establishing partnerships with multilingual parents, they often feel uncertain and inexperienced about it. This is especially true in multilingual contexts where three or more home languages in a single family are…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Faculty Development, Second Language Learning, Native Language
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Gillis, Aurélie; Roskam, Isabelle – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2020
The current article serves a dual purpose: to highlight the overlooked and recent concept of parenting-related exhaustion and to propose a specific methodology to test concurrent variations of the parent's exhaustion with the partner's exhaustion and her or his perceived and given support. Questionnaire data were collected from 97 mother-father…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Fatigue (Biology), Social Support Groups, Spouses
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Vandenbroeck, Michel; Slot, Pauline; Hulpia, Hester – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2021
Child care quality in general, and caregiver-child interactions in particular, are salient predictors of children's outcomes. While the importance of process quality is well known, the complex relations between structural quality and process quality are far less researched in family child care, compared to centre based child care. Flanders shows…
Descriptors: Child Care, Family Environment, Educational Quality, Classroom Environment
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Wille, Beatrijs; Allen, Thomas; Van Lierde, Kristiane; Van Herreweghe, Mieke – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2020
This study addresses the topic of visual communication and early sign language acquisition in deaf children with a Flemish Sign Language (Vlaamse Gebarentaal or VGT) input. Results are obtained through a checklist focusing on sign-exposed deaf children's visual communication and early sign language acquisition: the adapted VGT Visual Communication…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Linguistic Input, Deafness, Foreign Countries
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De Wilde, July; Van Hoof, Sarah; Decock, Sofie; Rillof, Pascal; Van Praet, Ellen – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2018
This paper addresses the challenges service providers are facing amidst growing ethnolinguistic diversity in a neoliberal climate. We focus on the public service provider Kind & Gezin (K&G), the agency that monitors the wellbeing of young children on behalf of the Flemish authorities in Belgium. We demonstrate that the organisation has…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Health Services, Ethnography, Neoliberalism
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Vanobbergen, Bruno; Daems, Marie; Van Tilburg, Sarah – Educational Review, 2009
Bookbabies, an initiative from the Flemish Reading Association and the Flemish Centre for Public Libraries, is a pilot project organised in 10 Flemish cities where local public libraries worked together with 82 couples with young babies for two years to set up a programme called "having fun with books". The objectives of the research…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Infants, Toddlers, Reading Programs
Kohnstamm, Geldolph A. – 1984
In comparing research conducted in the Netherlands and the United States on parental reports of child behavior, this document reports several studies in which Dutch parents of children ages 3 to 36 months completed a translated version of Bates' Infant Characteristics Questionnaire (ICQ). In the first part of the Dutch study, 7,000 parents…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cross Cultural Studies, Dutch Culture, Factor Analysis
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Loots, Gerrit; Devise, Isabel – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2003
A study involving 17 Belgian children with hearing impairments and 33 parents, 10 with deafness, found that parents with deafness differed significantly from hearing parents in the use of a visual communication style adapted to the developmental communication needs and abilities related to the 18- to 24-month age period. (Contains references.)…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Deafness, Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries
Matthey, Marinette, Ed. – Travaux Neuchatelois de Linguistique (Tranel), 2001
Articles in this issue focus on language evolution, variation, and heterogeneity. The following are English translations of the French article titles appearing in the issue: "Irregular Phonetic Development Due to Frequency; Regional Traits in Proto-Romance"; "Linguistic Evolution and Evolution of Perspective in the Comparative…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Adults, Bilingualism, Creoles