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Feldman, Maurice A.; And Others – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1993
This study evaluated the effects of a home-based parent training program on the language development of young children of 28 mothers with mental retardation. Interaction training consisted of verbal instruction, modeling, feedback, and tangible reinforcement. After training, parent/child interaction scores were no longer lower than those of a…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Early Intervention, Home Instruction, Language Acquisition

Fagot, Beverly I.; Hagan, Richard – Child Development, 1991
In a study of differential socialization of boys and girls by mothers and fathers, families of 12 and 18 month olds, and 5 year olds, were examined at home. There were several differences in mothers' and fathers' reactions to boys and girls. Implications for further studies of parental sex-role socialization are discussed. (GLR)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Fathers, Interpersonal Relationship, Mothers

Blasco, Patricia Mulhearn; And Others – Journal of Early Intervention, 1990
This study examined maternal contributions to development of spontaneous mastery in 30 toddlers with and 31 without cerebral palsy. Mothers in the 2 groups did not differ in the quality and appropriateness of interactions with their children. Maternal involvement was found to contribute significantly to both spontaneous mastery and developmental…
Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Child Development, Discovery Learning, Exploratory Behavior

McCollum, Jeanette A.; Ree, Yon; Chen, Yu-Jun – Infants and Young Children, 2000
Drawing on interviews with six American and Korean mothers, this article explores the range and coalescence of ideas that mothers from different cultures have about interactions with their 12-month-old babies in social interactive play and joint play with objects. Differences and similarities about the mothers' ideas about interaction are…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Foreign Countries

Seery, Mary Ellen; Kretschmer, Richard R., Jr.; Elgas, Peggy M. – Infant-Toddler Intervention: The Transdisciplinary Journal, 1998
Qualitative analysis of videotape recordings of seven mothers and their sons with autism (ages 2 and 3) found that mothers mostly engaged in verbal regard (conversation) and directive behaviors. Sons were able to give some form of regard 69% of the time, mostly in the form of active task participation rather than verbal or visual regard.…
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Control, Autism, Eye Contact

Kramer, Laurie; Perozynski, Lisa A.; Chung, Tsai-Yen – Child Development, 1999
Mothers' and fathers' responses to their children's spontaneous sibling conflicts were observed. Findings indicated that associations between parents' conflict management strategy and sibling interaction quality varied according to children's ages, gender of the monitoring parent, and type of strategy. Passive nonintervention was highly associated…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Rearing, Conflict, Fathers
Ispa, Jean M.; Fine, Mark A.; Halgunseth, Linda C.; Harper, Scott; Robinson, JoAnn; Boyce, Lisa; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne; Brady-Smith, Christy – Child Development, 2004
The present study investigated the extent to which maternal intrusiveness and warmth during play, observed in 579 European American, 412 African American, and 110 more and 131 less acculturated Mexican American low-income families when children were approximately 15 months old, predicted 3 dimensions of the mother-toddler relationship 10 months…
Descriptors: African Americans, Parent Child Relationship, Low Income Groups, Mexican Americans
Kochanska, Grazyna; Forman, David R.; Aksan, Nazan; Dunbar, Stephen B. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2005
Background: Associations between early mother-child mutually responsive orientation (MRO) and children's conscience have been previously established, but the mechanisms accounting for those links are not understood. We examined three such mediational mechanisms: (a) the child's enhanced enjoyment of interactions with the mother, (b) increased…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Anxiety, Moral Development
Kummerer, Sharon E.; Lopez-Reyna, Norma A.; Hughes, Marie Tejero – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2007
Purpose: This qualitative study explored mothers' perceptions of their children's communication disabilities, emergent literacy development, and speech-language therapy programs. Method: Participants were 14 Mexican immigrant mothers and their children (age 17-47 months) who were receiving center-based services from an early childhood intervention…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Intervention, Mothers, Expressive Language
Cosden, Merith A.; Peerson, Stacey – 1996
Many women seek treatment for substance abuse problems during their child-bearing years. Evaluations of interventions for these women need to take into account other problems that women may have when they enter treatment. The effectiveness of residential treatment for women, some of whom reported a history of abuse and psychological problems, is…
Descriptors: Females, Intervention, Mental Health, Mothers
Lederberg, Amy R. – 1990
A study of 41 toddlers (ages 18-25 months) with hearing impairments and their hearing mothers and 54 typical toddlers and their hearing mothers, investigated whether the development of a normal mother-child relationship is disrupted by the inability of the child to understand his/her mother's normal means of communication. The study also explored…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Coding, Communication Problems, Emotional Development
DiStefano, Lynda A.; And Others – 1990
This study examined the effects of maternal directive and nondirective styles of interaction on the emergence of verbal communicative intent in toddlers, and sought to understand the association between maternal interaction styles and young children's pragmatic acquisition. During free play, maternal utterances of 12 mother-child dyads, with…
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Skills, Discourse Analysis, Interaction
Johnson, Helen L.; And Others – 1983
The physical and neurobehavioral findings at 3 years of age for 39 children born to mothers on methadone- maintenance and 23 children born to drug-free comparison mothers are reported. The methadone children had a higher incidence of head circumferences less than the third percentile, nystagmus/strabismus, and otitis media. No differences were…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Drug Abuse
Kontar, Fayez – 1986
This longitudinal, ethological study explores the development of communication behaviors, different types of social peer interactions, and mother-child interaction among 15 boys and 15 girls from 16 through 30 months of age. Each subject was filmed twice each month over a period of 14 months while he or she had lunch with 5 peers. Several subjects…
Descriptors: Aggression, Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer), Ethology
Rispoli, Matthew; Bloom, Lois – 1987
A study tested the hypothesis that if, for the 2-year-old, the transitive/intransitive distinction functions to signal differences in the conceptualization of actions, the child's sentence production should show a relationship between sentence frame and (1) locus of change animacy and (2) the child's expectations concerning an action's outcome.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation, Grammar