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Yonzon, Kulsum Chishti; Fleer, Marilyn; Fragkiadaki, Glykeria; Rai, Prabhat – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2023
Knowing how children become oriented to imaginary play can help educators in centres better support development. But how this begins in the first years of life is not well understood. How toddlers transform through their imagination concrete objects (such as play accessories, figurines, and books) to become props in play (placeholders and pivots)…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Imagination, Visual Aids, Foreign Countries
Elizabeth Schoen Simmons; Olivia Cayward; Rhea Paul – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: Cross-situational statistical learning is one mechanism by which typically developing toddlers map words to referents. Yet, this type of statistical learning has been found less efficient in children with developmental language disorder (DLD). The purpose of this article is to evaluate cross-situational statistical learning in very young…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Developmental Disabilities, Communication Disorders, Language Impairments
Frédéric Thériault-Couture; Célia Matte-Gagné; Annie Bernier – Developmental Science, 2025
Executive functions (EFs) emerge in the first years of life and are essential for many areas of child development. However, intraindividual developmental trajectories of EF during toddlerhood and their associations with ongoing development of language skills remain poorly understood. The present three-wave study examined these trajectories and…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Toddlers, Child Development, Language Acquisition
Sara Cibralic; Jane Kohlhoff; Susan Morgan; Nancy Wallace; Corey Lieneman; Catherine McMahon; Valsamma Eapen – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2025
Using a cross-sectional design, this study explored attachment insecurity and disorganization (assessed using the Strange Situation Procedure) in 90 toddlers (aged 14-24 months) with and without autism traits and assessed the associations between autism traits (severity and profiles) and both developmental level and attachment classification. Our…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Toddlers, Autism Spectrum Disorders
Irina Castellanos; Derek M. Houston – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine parent-reported ratings of temperament in toddlers with and without prelingual hearing loss. Method: The parent-completed Early Childhood Behavior Questionnaire (ECBQ) was used to assess temperament in toddlers aged 18-36 months. Three dimensions of temperament were examined: surgency, negative…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Toddlers, Hearing Impairments, Correlation
Caroline Beech; Daniel Swingley – Developmental Science, 2024
Psycholinguistic research on children's early language environments has revealed many potential challenges for language acquisition. One is that in many cases, referents of linguistic expressions are hard to identify without prior knowledge of the language. Likewise, the speech signal itself varies substantially in clarity, with some productions…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Infants, Psycholinguistics, Language Acquisition
Sheila Combs; Kristina N. Higgins – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Picturebooks can play an important function in the development of language by promoting language acquisition and enriching the overall language development of the child. Reading picturebooks to children builds a number of developmental domains and fosters significant learning outcomes for future achievements. In this study, children's ability to…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Toddlers
Isabelle Swearingen; Samantha Moros; Elizabeth Schaughency; Elaine Reese – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2025
Research Findings: The quantity and especially the quality of language that children are exposed to in early childhood (e.g. decontextualised and conversation-eliciting language) is linked to important developmental outcomes such as later school success. When caregivers refer to past or future events, they extend the conversation beyond the…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship, Dialogs (Language)
Jill Lany; Ferhat Karaman; Jessica F. Hay – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Infants' sensitivity to transitional probabilities (TPs) supports language development by facilitating mapping high-TP (HTP) words to meaning, at least up to 18 months of age. Here we tested whether this HTP advantage holds as lexical development progresses, and infants become better at forming word--referent mappings. Two groups of 24-month-olds…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Infants, Toddlers, Semantics
Sarah A Carter; Jane C Lin; Ting Chow; Mayra P Martinez; Jasmin M Alves; Klara R Feldman; Chunyuan Qiu; Kathleen A Page; Rob McConnell; Anny H Xiang – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Early intervention can reduce disability in children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. Screening for autism spectrum disorder in young children identifies those at increased likelihood of diagnosis who may need further support. This study assessed in "utero" exposure to maternal obesity and diabetes and offspring performance on…
Descriptors: Obesity, Diabetes, Mothers, Pregnancy
Raquel Camero; Carlos Gallego; Verónica Martínez – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
The aim was to test the use of eye-tracking methodology for the early detection of ASD in a task of association between unfamiliar objects and pseudowords. Significant differences were found between ASD (n = 57) and TD (n = 57) Spanish speaking toddlers in the number and time of fixation. The TD children showed more and longer fixations on eyes…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Disability Identification, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Toddlers
Zhou, Xin; Wang, Luchang; Hong, Xuancu; Wong, Patrick C. M. – Developmental Science, 2024
The speech register that adults especially caregivers use when interacting with infants and toddlers, that is, infant-directed speech (IDS) or baby talk, has been reported to facilitate language development throughout the early years. However, the neural mechanisms as well as why IDS results in such a developmental faciliatory effect remain to be…
Descriptors: Child Language, Infants, Interpersonal Communication, Vocabulary Development
Emma Worthley; Rebecca Grzadzinski; Lonnie Zwaigenbaum; Stephen R. Dager; Annette M. Estes; Heather C. Hazlett; Robert T. Schultz; Joseph Piven; Jason J. Wolff – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
This study investigated the extent to which sensory responsivity in infancy contributes to adaptive behavior development among toddlers at high-familial likelihood for autism. Prospective, longitudinal data were analyzed for 218 children, 58 of whom received an autism diagnosis. Results indicated that sensory profiles at age one year…
Descriptors: Profiles, Toddlers, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Sensory Experience
Federico Ricci; Giovanni Marozza; Enrica Crespi; Chiara Tanzi; Marco Broccoli – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2024
This study presents data on the effectiveness of participatory training, called 'Improvement Groups', voluntarily adopted in four nurseries in Northern Italy to prevent episodes of violence by staff toward children. The interventions provided for the representation of problematic cases, experienced by participants, relating to factors of work…
Descriptors: Violence, Prevention, Toddlers, Preschools
Daniela Kloo; Larissa J. Kaltefleiter; Beate Sodian – Infant and Child Development, 2024
Perspective taking and cognitive flexibility are important abilities for navigating our everyday lives. In this longitudinal study with 108 children (61 girls, mostly White), we investigated the developmental relation between Level 1 perspective taking at 27 months of age and Level 2 perspective taking at 52 months of age as well as relations to…
Descriptors: Perspective Taking, Longitudinal Studies, Child Development, Toddlers