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Qualitative and Quantitative Measures of Joint Attention Development in the First Year of Life: A Scoping Review
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Bradley, Holly; Smith, Beth A.; Wilson, Rujuta B. – Infant and Child Development, 2023
Joint attention (JA) is the purposeful coordination of an individual's focus of attention with that of another and begins to develop within the first year of life. Delayed, or atypically developing, JA is an early behavioural sign of many developmental disabilities and so assessing JA in infancy can improve our understanding of trajectories of…
Descriptors: Attention, Infants, Child Development, Qualitative Research
Sex Differences in Children's Toy Preferences: A Systematic Review, Meta-Regression, and Meta-Analysis
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Todd, Brenda K.; Fischer, Rico A.; Di Costa, Steven; Roestorf, Amanda; Harbour, Kate; Hardiman, Paul; Barry, John A. – Infant and Child Development, 2018
From an early age, most children choose to play with toys typed to their own gender. In order to identify variables that predict toy preference, we conducted a meta-analysis of observational studies of the free selection of toys by boys and girls aged between 1 and 8 years. From an initial pool of 1788 papers, 16 studies (787 boys and 813 girls)…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Young Children, Toys, Preferences
Evidence for Website Claims about the Benefits of Teaching Sign Language to Infants and Toddlers with Normal Hearing
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Nelson, Lauri H.; White, Karl R.; Grewe, Jennifer – Infant and Child Development, 2012
The development of proficient communication skills in infants and toddlers is an important component to child development. A popular trend gaining national media attention is teaching sign language to babies with normal hearing whose parents also have normal hearing. Thirty-three websites were identified that advocate sign language for hearing…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Infants, Sign Language, Web Sites
The Role of a Model's Age for Young Children's Imitation: A Research Review
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Zmyj, Norbert; Seehagen, Sabine – Infant and Child Development, 2013
The influence of a model's age on young children's behaviour has been a subject of considerable debate among developmental theorists. Despite the recent surge of interest, controversy remains about the nature of peer influence in early life. This article reviews studies that investigated the influence of a model's age on young…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Role Models, Child Behavior, Child Development
Four Themes from 20 Years of Research on Infant Perception and Cognition
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Bremner, J. Gavin – Infant and Child Development, 2011
This paper reviews progress over the past 20 years in four areas of research on infant perception and cognition. Work on perception of dynamic events has identified perceptual constraints on perception of object unity and object trajectory continuity that have led to a perceptual account of early development that supplements Nativist accounts.…
Descriptors: Infants, Social Cognition, Child Development, Perceptual Development
Changes and Challenges in 20 Years of Research into the Development of Executive Functions
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Hughes, Claire – Infant and Child Development, 2011
This review of 20 years of developmental research on Executive Functions (EF) offers a broad-brushstroke picture that touches on multiple issues including: (i) findings from typical and atypical groups, from infancy to adolescence; (ii) advances in assessment tools and in statistical analysis; (iii) the interplay between EF and other cognitive…
Descriptors: Research, Child Development, Executive Function, Individual Differences