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Hacer Yigit; Özlem Diken; Ugur Onur Günden; Tugçe Sinoglu-Günden; Ibrahim Halil Diken – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
The present study aimed to examine the effects of the Quality Book Reading (NIKO) Early Intervention Program on Turkish mothers of children with Down syndrome aged between 2 and 6 years and their children. The research was conducted using the convergent parallel mixed design with 17 mother-child dyads determined by random assignment. Nine…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Program Effectiveness, Young Children
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Wing Kai Fung; Kevin Kien Hoa Chung – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2024
This study examined the direct and indirect relationships between playfulness (social and cognitive spontaneity), executive functions, convergent thinking, divergent thinking, and academic skills in Hong Kong Chinese kindergarten children. Participants were 181 second-year (4 to 5 years) kindergarten children (45.9% boys) and their parents.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Kindergarten, Convergent Thinking
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Sofia Hein Machado; Alex Sweeney; Arturo E. Hernandez; Ferenc Bunta – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate how the amount of home language use between the primary caregiver and bilingual Spanish- and English-speaking children with hearing loss who use cochlear implants (CIs) versus their bilingual age-matched peers with normal hearing (NH) can impact speech outcomes in the home language. Method:…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Family Environment, Bilingualism, Spanish Speaking
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Helen L. Long; Katherine C. Hustad – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the vocal characteristics of children with cerebral palsy (CP) and anarthria using the stage model of vocal development. Method: Vocal characteristics of 39 children with CP and anarthria around 4 years of age were analyzed from laboratory-based caregiver--child interactions. Perceptual coding analysis was…
Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Young Children, Speech Impairments, Verbal Communication
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Ashley J. Harrison; Sahaj K. Bhimani; Farin E. Allen; Rebecca Lieberman-Betz; Stacey Neuharth-Pritchett – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Engagement in Early Intervention (EI) and Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE) helps to support the development of very young children who might demonstrate delays or other challenges. Research documents underutilization of these essential childhood services. To understand how to increase engagement in EI and ECSE among eligible families,…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Early Childhood Education, Special Education, Access to Education
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Jiahong Su; Weipeng Yang – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
The issue of Artificial Intelligence (AI) literacy is gaining popularity in the field of education. Most research on AI literacy has focused on primary, secondary, and higher education, and there has been limited examination of AI literacy programs in early childhood education. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of an eight-week AI literacy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Artificial Intelligence, Technological Literacy, Early Childhood Education
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Mie Cocquyt; Timi Claeys; Anselme Derese; Stefaan Six; Johan Bilsen – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: The development of communication, speech and language follows three stages (development of the parent--child relationship, interactions and actual speech and language acquisition). Children born with cleft lip and/or palate are at increased risk of communicative problems while parents may be going through an emotionally difficult time.…
Descriptors: Physical Disabilities, Communication Skills, Child Development, Intervention
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Jessica Wiley – Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, 2024
I'm a special educator whose classroom was next door to the homeroom of my hard of hearing son. I had him as one of my students for special education literacy three times a week. I was fortunate to have the professional background, personal knowledge, and treasured relationships with colleagues -- all of which helped me navigate the experience of…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Students with Disabilities, Parent Role, Special Education Teachers
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Mayberry, Rachel I.; Hatrak, Marla; Ilbasaran, Deniz; Cheng, Qi; Huang, Yaqian; Hall, Matt L. – Developmental Science, 2024
The hypothesis that impoverished language experience affects complex sentence structure development around the end of early childhood was tested using a fully randomized, sentence-to-picture matching study in American Sign Language (ASL). The participants were ASL signers who had impoverished or typical access to language in early childhood. Deaf…
Descriptors: Young Children, Language Enrichment, Educationally Disadvantaged, Language Acquisition
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Lesley Friend; Lynn Downes – Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2024
Oral language is the primary means through which a child controls, describes, organises, and evaluates their life experiences and their ability to use oral language which effectively impacts their future literacy development. Currently, the world is awash with dynamic change and constant disruption. These include natural disasters such as the…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Oral Language, Young Children, COVID-19
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Peta Stapleton; Joseph Dispenza; Angela Douglas; Van Dao; Sarah Kewin; Kyra Le Sech; Anitha Vasudevan – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
This study aimed to understand how mindfulness meditation affects young people by examining its impact on self-regulation, happiness, emotional awareness, and school performance among two groups of school children. A 10-week mindfulness program was conducted by a meditation expert for 552 children aged 4-8 (Group 1) and 287 children aged 9-11…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metacognition, Young Children, Preadolescents
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Lamees Abdulrahman Alaulamie – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2024
The transition to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic was a new experience for parents of young children who were obliged to deal with various factors that had an impact on their level of satisfaction. It was essential to address these issues if their children were to continue receiving an education. This research investigates the factors…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Online Courses, Electronic Learning, COVID-19
Apoorva Shivaram – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education is essential to the economic growth, health, and progress of the modern world. One cognitive ability that underpins thinking and learning in STEM, as well as other disciplines, is relational ability. This ability to spot common relations shared by different objects, events, ideas, or…
Descriptors: Infants, Young Children, STEM Education, Thinking Skills
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Kristy Logan; Teresa Iacono; David Trembath – Augmentative and Alternative Communication, 2024
Children who lack functional spoken language are candidates for augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). Aided AAC and naturalistic interventions offer the potential to extend the communication functions demonstrated by children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who are nonspeaking. Related intervention research, however, has been…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Program Effectiveness, Intervention
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Vanessa Ferraz Almeida Neves; Gloria Quiñones; Maria de Fátima Cardoso Gomes; Fabíola Aparecida Faria Ribeiro – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2024
This paper draws on a three-year ethnographic study during which we investigated young children's cultural development in a Brazilian early childhood centre. A cultural-historical approach was used to understand the concept of autonomy. We focus on Danilo, a very young child who overcame his fear of using a play slide (a cultural artefact). We…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Foreign Countries, Personal Autonomy, Young Children
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