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Recchia, Susan L.; Shin, Minsun; Loizou, Eleni – Teachers College Press, 2023
Learn how to create and nurture communities of care for diverse children, families, and practitioners through responsive practice. In this text, the social and emotional worlds of babies and toddlers, their peers, and their caregivers come to life in the everyday moments of infant-toddler care and education. The authors show infants and toddlers…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Interpersonal Relationship, Play
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Honig, Alice Sterling – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
How to help babies and young children right from birth to become competent in talking as well as emergent literacy is illustrated by research findings as well as with specific clinical stories. Both kinds of knowledge can serve to galvanize parents and teachers to increase awareness of infant and preschool language development and the crucial role…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Emergent Literacy, Preschool Children, Caregiver Role
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Hoicka, Elena; Wang, Su-hua – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2011
Fifteen-month-old infants detected a violation when an actor performed an action that did not match her preceding vocal cue: The infants looked reliably longer when the actor expressed a humorous vocal cue followed by a sweet action or expressed a sweet vocal cue followed by a humorous action, than when the vocal cue was followed by a matching…
Descriptors: Cues, Infants, Infant Behavior, Cognitive Ability
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Hoicka, Elena; Gattis, Merideth – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2012
Previous studies indicate that the acoustic features of speech discriminate between positive and negative communicative intentions, such as approval and prohibition. Two studies investigated whether acoustic features of speech can discriminate between two positive communicative intentions: humour and sweet-sincerity, where sweet-sincerity involved…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Autism, Cues, Sentences
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Wittmer, Donna – Young Children, 2012
Wise teachers of infants and toddlers know how concerned, helpful, empathic, cooperative, and friendly--that is, how prosocial--very young children can be. Teachers see older infants crawl or toddle over to "friends" arriving later in the morning and greet them as if they had not seen them in weeks. Teachers and families know that these young…
Descriptors: Adults, Interpersonal Relationship, Caring, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
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Shin, Minsun – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2010
This qualitative study aimed to explore how infants share and experience friendships and examine the role of infant caregivers in social and friendship experiences among infants. The data were collected through classroom observation over a semester. Findings yielded complex and rich social relationships that both infant friends and caregivers…
Descriptors: Cues, Play, Observation, Child Caregivers
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Bergen, Doris; Hutchinson, Kathleen; Nolan, Joan T.; Weber, Deborah – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2010
Infant-parent play with toys is an early form of social communication, and the toy features (i.e., affordances), as well as the child's language competence, contribute to the developmental level of the play and the types of play actions that occur. This research, conducted in cooperation with a toy manufacturer, investigated how the affordances of…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Play, Infants, Parent Child Relationship
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Loizou, Eleni – Early Child Development and Care, 2007
This study investigated the humorous activity of two infants, 18 and 21 months old, in their infant group childcare setting. This was a qualitative study that followed two infants for four months. Through participant and non-participant observations, journal writing and interviews, data were collected on children's involvement in humorous…
Descriptors: Play, Imagination, Infants, Caregivers