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Girolametto, Luigi; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1996
This study explored effects of training 25 mothers to administer focused intervention to teach specific target words to their toddlers with expressive vocabulary delays. Following treatment, mothers' language input was slower, less complex, and more focused. The children used more target words, more words during play, and had larger vocabularies…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Delayed Speech, Early Intervention, Expressive Language

Mahoney, Gerald; Neville-Smith, Amy – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1996
Analysis of communicative exchanges between 24 children (ages 2-3) with Down syndrome and their mothers found that the quality of children's responses was highly associated with the degree to which the mothers' requests were related to the child's current activity and matched or were below the child's current developmental level. (DB)
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Communication Skills, Developmental Stages, Dialogs (Language)

Fewell, Rebecca R.; Deutscher, Barbara – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2002
The contributions of receptive vocabulary scores, maternal responsiveness, and maternal directiveness to the prediction of verbal IQ and reading over a 5 1/2-year period were investigated. Receptive vocabulary scores of 543 low-birthweight children at 36 months accounted for the major portion of the variation. Maternal responsiveness added…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Family Environment, Infants, Intelligence Quotient

Rubin, Kenneth H.; Burgess, Kim B.; Hastings, Paul D. – Child Development, 2002
Used prospective longitudinal design to ascertain whether different types of behavioral inhibition were stable from toddler to preschool age, and whether inhibited temperament or parenting style predicted children's subsequent social/behavioral problems. Found that traditional and peer-social toddler inhibition predicted socially reticent behavior…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Behavior, Inhibition, Longitudinal Studies

Cooper, Carolyn S.; And Others – Adolescence, 1990
Examined effect of social support on parent-child interaction in 19 adolescent mothers who worked in preschool classroom with skilled caregivers modeling facilitative styles of interacting with young children. Results showed that girls aged 16 and older significantly increased frequency of using responsive, engaging, and elaborative styles of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Behavior Change, Early Parenthood

Landis, Lydia J. – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1992
Analysis of the labor participation of 65 mothers of infants and toddlers with disabilities found a slightly greater proportion of 1-parent families than expected, entry into the labor force at approximately the same rate as other mothers, a greater proportion of mothers engaged in part-time employment, and predominance of spouses as childcare…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Day Care, Demography, Disabilities

Cole, Pamela M.; And Others – Child Development, 1992
Examined the emotional reactions of toddlers to two mishaps. Children's reactions varied along two dimensions: tension and frustration and concerned reparation. Mishaps elicited more negative emotions than did free play, and most toddlers attempted to correct the mishap. Findings indicate that children's styles of emotional response to mishaps may…
Descriptors: Accidents, Affective Behavior, Emotional Development, Emotional Response

Kochanska, Grazyna; Radke-Yarrow, Marian – Child Development, 1992
Studied the ability of measures of inhibition to unfamiliar events that are obtained in toddlerhood to predict social behaviors during an interaction with an unfamiliar peer at the age of five years. Results revealed that the role of child inhibition as a predictor of social behavior may be more evident during the initial encounter with the peer.…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Inhibition, Interpersonal Competence, Longitudinal Studies

Crockenberg, Susan; Litman, Cindy. – Child Development, 1991
Mothers of toddlers were interviewed and observed. In laboratory observations, maternal employment adversely affected maternal behavior when satisfaction with social support or work role was low. In home and laboratory observations, the effect of poor quality child care was greater when mothers were employed. (BC)
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Compliance (Psychology), Day Care, Employed Parents

Debaryshe, Barbara D. – Journal of Child Language, 1993
Data from two-year-old children and mothers were collected concerning age at which she began to read to child, frequency of home reading, number of stories read per week, frequency of visits by child to library. Picture-book reading exposure was more strongly related to receptive than expressive language. Age of onset of home reading routines was…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Language Skills, Mothers, Oral Language

Kochanska, Grazyna – Child Development, 1990
Two kinds of parental beliefs, endorsed rearing philosophy (authoritative-authoritarian dimension) and affective attitude toward child (positive-negative affect dimension), were examined in 20 normal and 36 depressed mothers as long-term predictors of child rearing behaviors and interaction patterns with their children. (BC)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Child Rearing, Depression (Psychology), Longitudinal Studies

Bornstein, Marc H.; Haynes, O. Maurice; Pascual, Liliana; Painter, Kathleen M.; Galperin, Celia – Child Development, 1999
Compared exploratory, symbolic, and social play and interaction of Argentine and U.S. 20-month olds and their mothers. Found patterns of cultural similarity in sex differences and differences in the use of exploratory and symbolic play. Overall, Argentine and U.S. dyads used different modes of exploration, representation, and interaction,…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences

Child Development, 1998
A longitudinal study evaluated child-care effects on young children's self-control, compliance, and problem behavior. Findings indicated that mothering was a stronger and more consistent predictor of child outcomes than child care. There was little evidence that early, extensive, and continuous care was related to problematic child behavior.…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Compliance (Psychology), Day Care, Day Care Effects

Gelman, Susan A.; Coley, John D.; Rosengren, Karl S.; Hartman, Erin; Pappas, Athina – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1998
Explored how mothers convey information about category structure during naturalistic interactions. Videotaped reading-aloud sessions between mothers and toddlers; coded their interactions for explicit and implicit discussion of animal and artifact categories. Found that mothers provided a rich array of information beyond simple labeling routines,…
Descriptors: Child Language, Classification, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation

Moore, Ginger A.; Cohn, Jeffrey F.; Campbell, Susan B. – Developmental Psychology, 2001
Investigated stability and change in infant affective responses to still-face interaction, impact of maternal depression, and whether infant responses predicted toddler problem behaviors. Found stable individual differences in gazing away and rates of negative affect. Gazing away increased over time. Mothers' current depressive symptoms and…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Problems, Emotional Response, Eye Movements