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Zhou, Ni; Wong, Hai Ming; McGrath, Colman – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2019
Background: A visual-verbal integration model (VVIM) was used to train parents and their children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) to dispense a pea-sized amount of fluoridated toothpaste, aiming to balance the occurrence of dental caries and fluorosis. Method: Participants were 370 pairs of IDD preschool children and their…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Intervention, Dental Health, Preschool Children
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Lieberman, Amy M.; Hatrak, Marla; Mayberry, Rachel I. – Language Learning and Development, 2014
Joint attention between hearing children and their caregivers is typically achieved when the adult provides spoken, auditory linguistic input that relates to the child's current visual focus of attention. Deaf children interacting through sign language must learn to continually switch visual attention between people and objects in order to achieve…
Descriptors: Deafness, Cues, Sign Language, Infants
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Ferguson, Christopher J.; Donnellan, M. Brent – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Zimmerman, Christakis, and Meltzoff (2007) reported that exposure to Baby Einstein videos was negatively associated with language development. The current study uses the Zimmerman et al. (2007) data set to replicate and extend the original analyses. Caregivers of 392 children aged 6 to 16 months and 358 children aged 17 to 27 months reported on…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Replication (Evaluation), Caregivers, Predictor Variables
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Smith, Linda B.; Yu, Chen; Pereira, Alfredo F. – Developmental Science, 2011
Human toddlers learn about objects through second-by-second, minute-by-minute sensory-motor interactions. In an effort to understand how toddlers' bodily actions structure the visual learning environment, mini-video cameras were placed low on the foreheads of toddlers, and for comparison also on the foreheads of their parents, as they jointly…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Perceptual Motor Learning, Video Technology, Play
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Bailes, Cynthia Neese; Erting, Lynne C.; Thumann-Prezioso, Carlene; Erting, Carol J. – Sign Language Studies, 2009
This longitudinal case study examined the language and literacy acquisition of a Deaf child as mediated by her signing Deaf parents during her first three years of life. Results indicate that the parents' interactions with their child were guided by linguistic and cultural knowledge that produced an intuitive use of child-directed signing (CDSi)…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Deafness, Cognitive Mapping, Human Body