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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
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Cawthon, Stephanie W.; Fink, Bentley; Schoffstall, Sarah; Wendel, Erica – American Annals of the Deaf, 2018
Social skills are a vehicle by which individuals negotiate important relationships. The present article presents historical data on how social skills in deaf students were conceptualized and studied empirically during the period 1990-2015. Using a structured literature review approach, the researchers coded 266 articles for theoretical frameworks…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Interpersonal Competence, Youth
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Egert, Franziska; Fukkink, Ruben G.; Eckhardt, Andrea G. – Review of Educational Research, 2018
High pedagogical quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is related to developmental outcomes in young children. This review summarizes findings from (quasi)-experimental studies that evaluated in-service training effects for ECEC professionals on external quality ratings and child development. The aggregation of findings at teacher…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Faculty Development, Preschool Teachers, Early Childhood Education