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Harkness, Sara – Language Sciences, 1988
Applies a theoretical framework that encompasses cultural and social regulation of mother-child speech to observations of discourse between three mothers and their two-year-olds. Maternal speech was semantically contingent in the sense that both partners in the conversation were jointly focused on a shared topic of concern. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Language Styles

Howes, Carollee; Matheson, Catherine C. – New Directions for Child Development, 1992
Assessed the attachment of 101 toddlers to their mothers and day care teachers by the Strange Situation Procedure or Q-Set measures. Results were consistent with the hypothesis that children's relationships with their parents and day care teachers would show similar attachment classifications. (BC)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Family Characteristics

Fein, Greta G.; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1993
Examined antecedents of maternal separation anxiety in 83 Italian mothers prior to their infants or toddlers entering group care. Mothers' anxiety did not vary with the child's age. Anxious mothers were younger and less educated, received less support, had temperamentally negative infants, and provided less varied stimulation in the home. (MM)
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Day Care, Family Environment, Foreign Countries

Hoff-Ginsberg, Erika; Krueger, Wendy M. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1991
Discusses a study of conversational dyadic interaction between children aged 1.5 to 3 years; their 4-, 5-, 7-, or 8-year-old siblings; and their mothers. Mothers were more supportive conversational partners and adapted their level of speech more than siblings. (GH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Caregiver Speech, Child Language, Language Acquisition

Garcia-Sellers, Martha J.; Church, Kelly – Infant-Toddler Intervention: The Transdisciplinary Journal, 2000
A study involving 26 toddlers used an observational procedure, the Box Task, to elicit non-self-regulatory behavior. Both mothers' and fathers' interaction was found to be related to children's behavior. For mothers, synchrony of interaction most strongly predicted internalizing behavior, whereas for fathers, focus on control and direction style…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Child Behavior, Environmental Influences, Family Influence

Wijnen, Frank; Kempen, Masja; Gillis, Steven – Journal of Child Language, 2001
Explores the possibility that the early predominance of infinitival forms in children acquiring Dutch as their first language is related to patterns in the language input. Analyzed a corpus of utterances addressed by two Dutch-speaking mothers to their 2- and 3-year-old sons. Root infinitive utterances amounted to 10%, and auxiliary-plus…
Descriptors: Child Language, Dutch, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition
Ophir-Cohen, Michal; Ashkenazy, Eyal; Cohen, Ayala; Tirosh, Emanuel – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 2005
This study examined the developmental attainments of children with visual impairments, aged 6-59 months, with and without emotional deficits, behavioral deficits, or both. It found that an emotional or behavioral deficit was significantly related to gross motor and visual motor integration, expressive and receptive language, and social or personal…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Visual Impairments, Emotional Development, Child Development
Braswell, Gregory S.; Rosengren, Karl S. – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2005
A recent graphic schemas account of drawing development that emphasizes the appropriation of graphic conventions has provided an alternative to constructivist theories, which have viewed development as a progression through universal stages. The present study addresses the limitations of this account by investigating younger children than have…
Descriptors: Mothers, Semantics, Interpersonal Relationship, Interaction
Jennings, Kay Donahue; Abrew, Amy J. – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2004
Low self-efficacy is a key component of depression. Toddlers of depressed mothers may be at risk for impaired development of self-efficacy because of maternal modeling, diminished encouragement of toddlers' efforts, and/or biological contributions. We examined emerging self-efficacy in 70 toddlers of depressed mothers and 62 toddlers of…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Toddlers, At Risk Persons, Depression (Psychology)
Fox, Robert A.; Keller, Kathryn M.; Grede, Patricia L.; Bartosz, Ann M. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2007
A mental health clinic was developed for toddlers with developmental disabilities and significant behavior problems from families living in poverty. The clinic was a collaborative effort between a community-based Birth-to-Three agency and a university. The purpose of this clinic was threefold: to provide direct mental health services for these…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Health Services, Child Behavior, Behavior Problems
Yirmiya, Nurit; Gamliel, Ifat; Pilowsky, Tammy; Feldman, Ruth; Baron-Cohen, Simon; Sigman, Marian – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2006
Aims: To compare siblings of children with autism (SIBS-A) and siblings of children with typical development (SIBS-TD) at 4 and 14 months of age. Methods: At 4 months, mother-infant interactional synchrony during free play, infant gaze and affect during the still-face paradigm, and infant responsiveness to a name-calling paradigm were examined (n…
Descriptors: Siblings, Nonverbal Communication, Delayed Speech, Mothers
Winslow, Emily B.; Shaw, Daniel S. – 1993
A study examined relations among maternal stress, social support, adjustment, and the use of positive (encouraging) or negative (punitive) control strategies in a low socioeconomic status sample. The study sample consisted of 40 mother-son dyads examined longitudinally when the children were 18 and 24 months of age. During this period, mothers…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Rearing, Longitudinal Studies, Low Income Groups
Morris, Theresa E.; And Others – 1991
This study examined the impact of play context on the speech of mothers and children. It was expected that the types of speech produced by both children and mothers when they played with toys that involve fine motor manipulation would differ from the speech produced when they played with toys that involve gross motor play. Sixteen children (eight…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Individual Differences, Language Acquisition, Mothers
1992
This paper presents an overview of a 3-year longitudinal study conducted by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). The purpose of the study is to examine the concurrent, long-term, and cumulative influences of variations in early child care experiences on the cognitive, linguistic, social, emotional, and physical…
Descriptors: Child Development, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Infants
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