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Direct linkKucker, Sarah C.; Braun, Blair E.; Markham-Anderson, Jessica F. – Child Development, 2023
Children's ability to recognize object shape is foundational for successful early word learning. However, the prototypical shape of objects may not be easily accessible--take margarita glasses, for instance. The current study examined 304 U.S. children 17- to 42-month-old (152 females) from 2017 to 2020, asking how shape, age, and vocabulary…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Infants, Toddlers, Physical Characteristics
Plate, Samantha; Yankowitz, Lisa; Resorla, Leslie; Swanson, Meghan R.; Meera, Shoba Sreenath; Estes, Annette; Marrus, Natasha; Cola, Meredith; Petrulla, Victoria; Faggen, Aubrey; Pandey, Juhi; Paterson, Sarah; Pruett, John R., Jr.; Hazlett, Heather; Dager, Stephen; St. John, Tanya; Botteron, Kelly; Zwaigenbaum, Lonnie; Piven, Joseph; Schultz, Robert T.; Parish-Morris, Julia – Child Development, 2022
Infant vocalizations are early-emerging communicative markers shown to be atypical in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but few longitudinal, prospective studies exist. In this study, 23,850 infant vocalizations from infants at low (LR)- and high (HR)-risk for ASD (HR-ASD = 23, female = 3; HR-Neg = 35, female = 13; LR = 32, female = 10; 80% White;…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Verbal Communication, Autism
Weatherhead, Drew; Kandhadai, Padmapriya; Hall, D. Geoffrey; Werker, Janet F. – Child Development, 2021
Previous work indicates mutual exclusivity in word learning in monolingual, but not bilingual toddlers. We asked whether this difference indicates distinct conceptual biases, or instead reflects best-guess heuristic use in the absence of context. We altered word-learning contexts by manipulating whether a familiar- or unfamiliar-race speaker…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Infants, Vocabulary Development, Toddlers
Zwaigenbaum, Lonnie; Bryson, Susan E.; Brian, Jessica; Smith, Isabel M.; Sacrey, Lori; Armstrong, Vickie; Roberts, Wendy; Szatmari, Peter; Garon, Nancy; Vaillancourt, Tracy; Roncadin, Caroline – Child Development, 2021
The objectives were to characterize behavioral signs of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in younger siblings of diagnosed children (high-risk; HR) and examine classification features of the Autism Observation Scale for Infants (AOSI). Participants (501 HR and 180 low-risk [LR]) were assessed between 6 and 18 months using the AOSI and at age 3 for…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Infant Behavior
Jiménez, Eva; Hills, Thomas T. – Child Development, 2022
This study investigates the influence of semantic maturation on early lexical development by examining the impact of contextual diversity--known to influence semantic development--on word promotion from receptive to productive vocabularies (i.e., comprehension-expression gap). Study 1 compares the vocabularies of 3685 American-English-speaking…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Acquisition, Child Development, Delayed Speech
Dowdall, Nicholas; Murray, Lynne; Skeen, Sarah; Marlow, Marguerite; De Pascalis, Leonardo; Gardner, Frances; Tomlinson, Mark; Cooper, Peter J. – Child Development, 2021
This study evaluated the impact of a parenting intervention on children's cognitive and socioemotional development in a group of caregivers and their 21-to-28-month-old children in a low-income South African township. A randomized controlled trial compared an experimental group (n = 70) receiving training in dialogic book-sharing (8 weekly group…
Descriptors: Reading Aloud to Others, Books, Parenting Skills, Intervention
Bergmann, Christina; Tsuji, Sho; Piccinini, Page E.; Lewis, Molly L.; Braginsky, Mika; Frank, Michael C.; Cristia, Alejandrina – Child Development, 2018
Previous work suggests that key factors for replicability, a necessary feature for theory building, include statistical power and appropriate research planning. These factors are examined by analyzing a collection of 12 standardized meta-analyses on language development between birth and 5 years. With a median effect size of Cohen's d = 0.45 and…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Meta Analysis, Effect Size, Child Development
McClure, Elisabeth R.; Chentsova-Dutton, Yulia E.; Holochwost, Steven J.; Parrott, W. G.; Barr, Rachel – Child Development, 2018
Although many relatives use video chat to keep in touch with toddlers, key features of adult-toddler interaction like joint visual attention (JVA) may be compromised in this context. In this study, 25 families with a child between 6 and 24 months were observed using video chat at home with geographically separated grandparents. We define two types…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Child Development, Social Development
Burling, Joseph M.; Yoshida, Hanako – Child Development, 2019
Manual skills slowly develop throughout infancy and have been shown to create clear views of objects that provide better support for visually sustained attention, recognition, memory, and learning. These clear views may coincide with the development of manual skills, or that social scaffolding supports clear viewing experiences like those…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Infants, Skill Development, Attention Control
Gangi, Devon N.; Boterberg, Sofie; Schwichtenberg, Amy J.; Solis, Erika; Young, Gregory S.; Iosif, Ana-Maria; Ozonoff, Sally – Child Development, 2021
Two independent cohorts (N = 155, N = 126) of infants at high and low risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) were followed prospectively between 6 and 36 months of age, when n = 46 were diagnosed with ASD. Gaze to adult faces was coded--during a developmental assessment (Cohort 1) or a play interaction (Cohort 2). Across both cohorts, most…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Early Intervention, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Bratsch-Hines, Mary E.; Carr, Robert; Zgourou, Eleni; Vernon-Feagans, Lynne; Willoughby, Michael – Child Development, 2020
This study considered the quality and stability of infant and toddler nonparental child care from 6 to 36 months in relation to language, social, and academic skills measured proximally at 36 months and distally at kindergarten. "Quality" was measured separately as caregiver-child verbal interactions and caregiver sensitivity, and…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Child Care, Educational Quality
Sperry, Douglas E.; Sperry, Linda L.; Miller, Peggy J. – Child Development, 2019
Amid growing controversy about the oft-cited "30-million-word gap," this investigation uses language data from five American communities across the socioeconomic spectrum to test, for the first time, Hart and Risley's (1995) claim that poor children hear 30 million fewer words than their middle-class counterparts during the early years…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Vocabulary Development, Infants, Toddlers
Yazejian, Noreen; Bryant, Donna M.; Hans, Sydney; Horm, Diane; St. Clair, Lisa; File, Nancy; Burchinal, Margaret – Child Development, 2017
Educare is a birth to age 5 early education program designed to reduce the achievement gap between children from low-income families and their more economically advantaged peers through high-quality center-based programming and strong school-family partnerships. This study randomly assigned 239 children (< 19 months) from low-income families to…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Early Childhood Education, Achievement Gap, Low Income Groups
Flensborg-Madsen, Trine; Mortensen, Erik L. – Child Development, 2018
The study investigated whether age at attainment of 20 developmental milestones within the areas of language, walking, eating, dressing, social interaction, and toilet training was associated with adult intelligence. Mothers of 821 children of the Copenhagen Perinatal Cohort recorded 20 developmental milestones at a 3-year examination, and all…
Descriptors: Child Development, Intelligence, Toilet Training, Adults
Graf Estes, Katharine; Hay, Jessica F. – Child Development, 2015
The present experiments tested bilingual infants' developmental narrowing for the interpretation of sounds that form words. These studies addressed how language specialization proceeds when the environment provides varied and divergent input. Experiment 1 (N = 32) demonstrated that bilingual 14- and 19-month-olds learned a pair of object labels…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Infants, Language Usage, Environmental Influences
