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Lavelli, Manuela; Barachetti, Chiara; Florit, Elena – Journal of Child Language, 2015
This study examined (a) the relationship between gesture and speech produced by children with specific language impairment (SLI) and typically developing (TD) children, and their mothers, during shared book-reading, and (b) the potential effectiveness of gestures accompanying maternal speech on the conversational responsiveness of children.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Preschool Children, Nonverbal Communication, Verbal Communication
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Camperio Ciani, Andrea S.; Fontanesi, Lilybeth – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2012
Objectives: This research aimed to identify incidents of mothers in Italy killing their own children and to test an adaptive evolutionary hypothesis to explain their occurrence. Methods: 110 cases of mothers killing 123 of their own offspring from 1976 to 2010 were analyzed. Each case was classified using 13 dichotomic variables. Descriptive…
Descriptors: Mothers, Crime, Death, Foreign Countries