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Cameron, David Lansing – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Findings are presented from a study examining the effects of the home-based intervention 'Growing: Birth to Three' (GBT) on children born prematurely at a regional hospital in Norway over a four-year period. Nineteen children received the intervention, while 17 children comprised the control group. Results indicate that GBT had a positive effect…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Early Intervention, Premature Infants, Foreign Countries
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Bornstein, Marc H.; Henry, Lauren M.; Manian, Nanmathi – Developmental Psychology, 2021
We compared language comprehension and production across the second year of life in children of clinically depressed mothers who later remitted with children of nondepressed mothers. Altogether, 157 mother-child dyads participated: 46 with mothers diagnosed at infant age 5 months as having major, minor, or other depressive disorders who fully…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Child Language, Infants, Depression (Psychology)
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Chi-Hang Cheung, Candice; Rong, Yicheng; Durrleman, Stephanie – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2022
It has been debated whether the progressive emergence of theory of mind (ToM) in autistic children is compatible with a "delayed" or "different" development model, and whether and how the sequential consolidation of ToM concepts is subject to cross-cultural variations in autistic and typically developing (TD) children. To study…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Young Children, Perspective Taking
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Gruver, Rachel S.; Mall, Sumaya; Kvalsvig, Jane D.; Knox, Justin R.; Mellins, Claude A.; Desmond, Chris; Kauchali, Shuaib; Arpadi, Stephen M.; Taylor, Myra; Davidson, Leslie L. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
Perinatal HIV infection is associated with delayed neurocognitive development, but less is known about children perinatally HIV-exposed but uninfected (CHEU). We compared cognitive and language outcomes in 4-6-year old CHEU versus children HIV-unexposed and uninfected (CHUU) and children living with HIV (CLHIV). We enrolled 1,581 children (77% of…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Preschool Children, Child Development, Scores
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Marjanovic-Umek, Ljubica; Fekonja-Peklaj, Urška; Socan, Gregor; Tašner, Veronika – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2015
This study examines the effect of certain socio-cultural factors of the family environment on the language of toddlers and children in early childhood. The sample included 86 families with one- to six-year-old children. The data on the social, economic, and cultural factors of the family environment, parental reading literacy, parental knowledge…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Toddlers, Parent Background, Educational Attainment
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Cross, Jennifer Riedl; Fletcher, Kathryn L.; Speirs Neumeister, Kristie L. – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2011
In this collective case study of caregiver behaviors with their toddlers, two-minute videotaped reading interactions were analyzed using a constant comparative method. Twenty-four caregiver-toddler dyads from a high-risk sample of children prenatally exposed to cocaine were selected from a larger sample because they represented the extremes of…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Toddlers, Parent Child Relationship, Expressive Language
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Bono, Katherine E.; Dinehart, Laura H. Bolzani; Dobbins, Dionne R.; Claussen, Angelika H. – Early Child Development and Care, 2008
Proximal environmental variables illustrate aspects of the environment that are experienced directly and specifically by the child. The current study examined the associations between three proximal environmental variables: (1) quality of the home environment, (2) regularity of family routines and (3) frequency of parenting daily hassles and…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Early Intervention, Cocaine, Parent Child Relationship