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Cynthia Puranik; Molly Duncan; Ying Guo – Grantee Submission, 2024
In the present study we examined the contributions of transcription and foundational oral language skills to written composition outcomes in a sample of kindergartners. Two hundred and eighty-two kindergarten students from 49 classrooms participated in this study. Children's writing-related skills were examined using various tasks. Latent…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Skills, Writing Skills, Beginning Writing
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Felicity L. Painter; Anna T. Booth; Primrose Letcher; Craig A. Olsson; Jennifer E. McIntosh – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2024
Background: The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and associated public health restrictions created unprecedented challenges for parents and their young dependent children. While psycho-social impacts of natural disasters on families are well studied, a typography of parent specific concerns in the COVID-19 context was yet to be articulated.…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Parents, Young Children
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Emily Day; Tristan Middleton – Support for Learning, 2024
This study investigated the impact of a 'Jewellery Club' on girls with social, communication and interaction difficulties. The project focussed on three girls aged seven who participated in an intervention using similar principles to the 'Lego Therapy' intervention. An action research approach was followed, where two phases of the intervention…
Descriptors: Females, Clubs, Interpersonal Competence, Communication Disorders
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Yu-Ling Chen – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
One of the characteristics of individuals on the autism spectrum is the restricted, repetitive patterns of behaviors, interests, or activities which have been considered the result of a direct deficit in self-regulation skills. Peer-mediated intervention (PMI) is one of the ways to support young children on the autism spectrum for following school…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Behavior Problems, Peer Teaching, Young Children
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Ruth Breeze; Ana Halbach – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
It has long been known that children who grow up in situations of economic and social disadvantage tend to have more difficulties when they enter school, and that these are often perpetuated, leading to underachievement and disaffection. The role of the family and home environment in stimulating children's language acquisition and pre-literacy…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Best Practices, Family Influence, Family Role
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Kristin Strauss; Michela Servadio; Giovanni Valeri; Laura Casula; Stefano Vicari; Leonardo Fava – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2024
Introduction: The present study build on previous research that found a bidirectional relation of parenting stress and negative behavioural outcomes in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Aim: To investigate the mediating role of parenting self-efficacy in the relationship of parenting stress and children's behavioural and emotional problems.…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Stress Variables, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Self Efficacy
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Federica Bulgarelli; Christine E. Potter – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2024
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, extensive lockdowns interrupted daily routines, including childcare. We asked whether these interruptions, and the inevitable changes in the people with whom children spent their waking hours, caused changes in the languages that children heard. We retrospectively queried parents of young children (0-4 years) in the…
Descriptors: Young Children, Language Usage, Student Experience, COVID-19
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Katherine M. Walton; Alayna R. Borowy; Christopher A. Taylor – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Improving social communication is a frequent goal of early autism services. However, it is unclear whether existing models of social communication align with the perspectives and priorities of key stakeholders, including parents, teachers, and expert clinicians. Stakeholder perspectives on social communication characteristics and priorities for…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Relationship, Young Children
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Ling Li Leng; Yue Wen Zhu; Lin Gang Zhou – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
The timing of autism spectrum disorder detection in research and clinical practice is characterised by substantial heterogeneity ranging from infancy to school age. In this study, we examined the age of diagnosis and its associated individual and socio-familial factors in Chinese children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. A sample of 1235…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Foreign Countries, Clinical Diagnosis, Disability Identification
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Sara Carlbaum; Joakim Lindgren; Malin Benerdal; Linda Rönnberg – Education Inquiry, 2024
National policies aiming at marketisation and privatisation in welfare sectors such as Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) require governance and organisation to be realised. In Sweden, the municipalities are key but largely under-researched organisers for preschool quasi-market infrastructures. This study explores the different ways in…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Foreign Countries, Municipalities, Community Organizations
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Zeynep Nur Aydin Kiliç; Fatma Tezel Sahin; Seyma Sultan Bozkurt – International Online Journal of Primary Education, 2024
This study was conducted to determine the perceptions of children, one of whose relatives was undergoing chemotherapy treatment and who participated in education at the House of Compassion, about the patient and hospital perceptions and their views on the House of Compassion. Case study design, one of the qualitative research designs, was used.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Childrens Attitudes, Cancer, Patients
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Raman Baweja; Ritika Baweja; Hunter Weidlich; Jennifer E. Nyland; Daniel A. Waschbusch; James G. Waxmonsky – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2024
Objective: The aim of this study was to identify patterns of ADHD care, including factors that guide selection and sequencing of treatments in a large nationwide sample of preschool-aged youth over the past 6 years. Method: A retrospective cohort study utilizing a large electronic health record (TriNetX) of nearly 24,000 children ages 3 to 6…
Descriptors: Young Children, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Intervention, Drug Therapy
Kimberly Dadisman; Andre Nickow; Philip Oreopoulos – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2024
Parenting is widely considered to be among the most important influences on early childhood (EC) development. But to what extent and under what circumstances can EC parenting programs improve child learning outcomes? While substantial progress has been made toward addressing these questions in recent years, there have been few attempts to…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Young Children, Child Development, Parent Education
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Chunhong Zhu; Yun Hong; Xin Dai; Bin-Bin Chen; Ni Yan – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: This study extends the understanding of the sibling effect on children's theory of mind (ToM) among Chinese preschoolers by adopting an ecological perspective. The participants were 225 Chinese preschoolers, comprising 100 children with siblings (M[subscript age] = 4.54 years, SD = 1.11, 55 boys) and 125 children without…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Siblings, Theory of Mind
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Magdalena Luniewska; Magdalena Krysztofiak; Ewa Haman – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: For over 30 years, parental reports have been used to study the vocabulary of children under 4 years of age. Research exploring parental checklists as a measure of vocabulary in older children is very limited. Typically, authors of parental checklists report the reliability of the developed tools but do not explore validity in terms of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocabulary Development, Parent Attitudes, Young Children
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