A study involving 14 dyads of mothers and their language impaired children (3-5 years-old) and 14 dyads of mothers and their normal children revealed mothers of both groups adjusted their language to meet the needs of their conversational partners. Language impaired Ss were less able to participate and maintan conversation. (Author/CL)

A family systems approach is advocated for enhancing family functioning as well as ameliorating specific difficulties encountered by learning disabled children and youth. The importance of restructuring dysfunctional parental attitudes and child rearing practices that may be interfering with learning and the need for mental health-education…

A behavior education program for teaching mothers to develop toy play in their developmentally delayed children was evaluated. After training, mothers displayed target skills and children showed increased rates of appropriate play. Mothers and infants were generally more responsive to each other's behavior and children self-initiated more…

Mother/child interactions of 60 hyperactive children 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 years of age were studied during free play and task periods. Significant age effects and several drug effects were found in the task period. Drug effects were essentially the same across all five age levels. (Author/RH)

In 1963, 1976, and 1982, identical questionnaires were administered to comparable samples of teenagers (570 total) to investigate whose advice they seek regarding 18 social issues. Data formed a curvilinear pattern over time, reflecting the decline of parent orientation between the '60s and '70s and its partial recovery during the '80s.…

Interviews conducted with adolescents from 12 to 17 years old and their parents revealed adolescent drinking can be explained by parental models of drinking behavior. Parental socialization factors, particularly support and to a lesser degree control, were also shown to have an effect on the development of adolescent drinking behaviors.…

Examined the relationship between parental behavior as reported by parents, children's perceptions of parental behavior, and the effects of each on various aspects of children's self-evaluations. Results found little correspondence between parents' reports of their behavior and children's perceptions of this behavior. Findings support the symbolic…

Investigates the differences between Japanese and American mothers' perceptions of support from their husbands, and the relationship between these perceptions and the mothers' involvement with their infants. Findings highlight differences in the cultural context of family life in the two societies. (Author/ABL)

Investigates the evolution of specific lexical and syntactical clues and the recurrence of various semantic fields in mothers' spontaneous speech to their infants. Content of mothers' speech was related to age in newborn to 10-month-old children. (Author/RH)

Surveyed 120 adult children from maritally disrupted situations and 145 adult children in intact marriages about their own and siblings' help to parents. Adult children in maritally disrupted situations gave about the same amount of help as siblings, while those with intact marriages gave more help than siblings. (JAC)

Examined mother-child dyads (N=52) in a training program to modify aggressive child behavior. Obtained several measures of mother-child interaction and compared them between dyads that succeeded and dyads that did not. Results indicated unsuccessful mothers were more aversive and indiscriminate in their use of aversive behavior toward their…

Describes the Constraining and Enabling Coding System (CECS), a scheme enabling identification of family interactions conceptually relevant to adolescent ego development. Results are presented of applications involving 61 families (each consisting of two parents and an adolescent) drawn from matched high school and psychiatric populations.…

In contrast to the traditional psychoanalytical approach, the developmental approach to dealing with parental reactions to the birth of a handicapped child offers greater support and allows for an evolution of parent roles. Further, the developmental approach can free parents to act as agents for changing social views toward "deviant" individuals.…

An in-depth analysis of one mother-child dyad is presented to highlight the interactional patterns (including such input variables as complexity, redundancy, and reciprocity) and the effects of language training on parental speech with a language disordered child. (CL)

Discusses the distinction between species-typical (elicitation) and operant reinforcement interpretations of infant/adult social interaction; considers procedural and analytic components of Poulson's 1983 paper (v36 p471-89); and clarifies differences in Poulson's interpretation and the author's interpretation of the vocal conditioning studies of…