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Flick, Louise H.; McSweeney, Maryellen – 1984
Part of a larger study of adolescent social-cognitive development and its influence on mother/child interaction, this investigation compared three methods of recording observations of mother/child interaction. It also explored correlations between sociodemographic variables and factor scores that summarized interaction variables. The sample…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Blacks, Correlation, Factor Analysis
McGuire, Jacqueline – 1985
The importance of a child's relationship with the same gender parent, which influences their interactions with mothers and fathers is discussed. Forty 2-year-old girls and boys were observed in interactions with mothers and fathers at home, and behavior ratings were based on the following criteria: availability, warmth, and power structure.…
Descriptors: Daughters, Educational Theories, Fathers, Foreign Countries
Grossman, Frances Kaplan – 1981
The purposes of this longitudinal study were: (1) to see whether it was possible to discern direct or indirect effects of mothers' and fathers' functioning on their 2-year-olds' cognitive, social, and psychomotor adaptations, and (2) to examine separately the relationships between parent functioning and the adaptations of first and later born…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Birth Order, Fathers, Interviews
Lieber, Madeleine – 1975
This paper presents the history of parent education in the United States and describes a mother-toddler program designed to help young mothers acquire knowledge and skills in child rearing through modeling, counseling and discussion. Included are reviews of current methods of education for child rearing, the need for programs to aid young parents,…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Group Dynamics, History, Infants

Cicchetti, Dante; Beeghly, Marjorie – New Directions for Child Development, 1987
This study, which uses the organizational perspective, synthesizes major contributions to the examination of symbolic development in abused children. Focuses on the interrelationship between and the impact of maltreatment on children's cognitive, socioemotional, and linguistic development. (RWB)
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Infants

Blacher, Jan; and Bromley, Barbara – Child Study Journal, 1987
Presented observational and descriptive data on the attachment and sensitivity between mothers and teachers and children with severe disabilities. Attachment data from mothers and teachers were obtained for four children with severe disabilities. (Author/RWB)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Case Studies, Child Development, Disabilities

Cunningham, Charles E.; And Others – Child Development, 1985
Addressing methodological limitations, Study One compared parent-child interactions of normal and language-delayed children; Study Two investigated whether mothers adjust the length of their utterances to the child's ability to comprehend or to produce language; Study Three probed interactional variables associated with variations in the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Communication Research, Comprehension

Heinicke, Christoph M.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Discusses the extent to which certain key aspects of functioning in two-year-old children in 46 families, followed from mid-pregnancy to two years, are anticipated by pre-birth parent personality and marital characteristics, and how these characteristics interact with postbirth development. (Author/DR)
Descriptors: Attention, Family Characteristics, Fathers, Infants
Hanrahan, Marian, Ed.; Prinsen, Bert, Ed. – 1997
The development of community-based programs to support inexperienced parents through home visits by experienced mothers, who are in turned facilitated by child health and development professionals, has become an increasingly common approach in Europe and the United States. This edited volume presents proceedings from an invitational conference on…
Descriptors: Child Health, Community Programs, Community Support, Family Programs
Fenichel, Emily, Ed. – Zero to Three, 2002
"Zero to Three" is a single-focus bulletin of the National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families providing insight from multiple disciplines on the development of infants, toddlers, and their families. Noting that during the earliest years of life, much of children's learning about themselves and the world around them occurs in…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Care, Child Rearing

Haight, Wendy L.; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1997
European American, middle-class husbands and wives were observed separately during parent-child play and then interviewed separately. Both fathers and mothers generally characterized pretend play as enjoyable, facilitative of children's creativity and cognitive development; most subjects participated in pretend play. Individual differences in…
Descriptors: Father Attitudes, Fathers, Mother Attitudes, Mothers

Campbell, Philippa H.; And Others – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1989
Seven full-term infants with severe encephalopathy following perinatal asphyxia were followed longitudinally to two years of age to determine health and developmental outcome and to investigate mother-infant interaction patterns over time. Six infants demonstrated delayed development; five were diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Mother-infant…
Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Child Development, Clinical Diagnosis, Congenital Impairments

Fein, Greta G.; Fryer, Mary G. – Developmental Review, 1995
Reviews research assessing the mother's contribution to children's early symbolic play competence, focusing on children ages 12-36 months. Finds that, as with other family members, mothers can encourage pretend play, but perhaps there is no special maternal role in the process. The quality and quantity of sophisticated play might be affected by…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cultural Influences

Paul, Rhea; Elwood, Terril J. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1991
This study found that the speech of mothers (n=28) of toddlers slow to acquire expressive language tended to differ only in the frequency of use of lexical contingency devices (specifically expansion and extension of child speech), when compared to mothers of normally speaking toddlers. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Communication Skills, Delayed Speech, Expressive Language

Harwood, Robin L. – Child Development, 1992
Based on information provided by Anglo and Puerto Rican mothers living in the New Haven, Connecticut area, culturally sensitive vignettes of toddler attachment behavior were constructed. In response to the vignettes, Anglo mothers focused on children's individual autonomy, while Puerto Rican mothers emphasized children's maintenance of proper…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Attachment Behavior, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences