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Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, 2020
Each year, the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) releases a list of scientific advances that represent significant progress in the field. The "2019 IACC Summary of Advances" provides short, plain language summaries of the top research breakthroughs selected by the IACC from a pool of research articles nominated by the…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Clinical Diagnosis, Predictor Variables
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Tsao, Ling-Ling; McCabe, Helen – Young Exceptional Children, 2010
Social and play skills are important developmental tasks for young children. Typically developing children learn appropriate social skills quite naturally and without specific intervention while interacting with other children in playful environments. Young children with disabilities, however, usually need social skills interventions, and these…
Descriptors: Siblings, Play, Disabilities, Young Children
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Goldsmith, Jo; Cowen, Helena – Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 2011
This article aims to demonstrate that it is not only the mind that needs to have the capacity to hold and transform, but also the body. Fordham's concept of the "primary self" emphasises the unity between the body and emotional states in infancy. The self is expressed through actions that bring the infant into contact with the mother and the…
Descriptors: Siblings, Sexual Abuse, Mothers, Eating Disorders
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Gamliel, Ifat; Yirmiya, Nurit; Sigman, Marian – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2007
Cognitive and language skills of 39 siblings of children with autism (SIBS-A) and 39 siblings of typically developing children (SIBS-TD) at ages 4, 14, 24, 36, and 54 months were compared. Twelve of the 39 SIBS-A revealed a delay in cognition and/or language (including one child diagnosed with autism) compared to only two SIBS-TD. Developmental…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Siblings, Language Aptitude, Expressive Language
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Sherwin-White, Susan – Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 2007
This paper explores Freud's developing thought on brothers and sisters, and their importance in his psychoanalytical writings and clinical work. Freud's work on sibling psychology has been seriously undervalued. This paper aims to give due recognition to Freud's work in this area. (Contains 1 note.)
Descriptors: Educational History, Siblings, Birth Order, Case Studies
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Crouthamel, Carol S. – Early Child Development and Care, 1988
Discusses a sibling support group for 7-13-year-old siblings of developmentally delayed children. Describes group sessions and family responses to the program. (RJC)
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Developmental Disabilities, Family Life
Stark, Deborah Roderick; Harden, Brenda Jones; Chazan-Cohen, Rachel; Cohen, Daniel J.; Rice, Kathleen Fitzgerald – Zero to Three, 2006
Do child development professionals have expectations about what it will be like to parent twins based on their professional experiences? Does their professional knowledge influence their approach to caregiving? And do their personal experiences as parents of twins change their research interests or how they work with children and families? To…
Descriptors: Twins, Psychologists, Family Life, Child Rearing
Bryant, Brenda K.; Litman, Cindy – Journal of Children in Contemporary Society, 1987
Siblings as teachers and therapists are viewed from the following perspectives: (1) within the context of the family system; and (2) as a distinct dyadic relational system. Both possibilities and limitations of sibling helping are discussed. (Author/BJV)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Child Psychology, Childhood Attitudes
Schachter, Frances Fuchs; Stone, Richard K. – Journal of Children in Contemporary Society, 1987
Deidentification is the phenomenon whereby siblings are defined as different or contrasting. In pathological deidentification, the natural flow of sibling conflict and reconciliation seems obstructed as one sibling is assigned the fixed identity of "devil," who constantly harasses the other, "angel," sibling. A clinical…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Child Psychology, Childhood Attitudes
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Bornstein, Marc H. – Infant and Child Development, 2005
Parenting is a subject about which people typically hold strong opinions, but about which too little solid information or considered reflection exists. And clearly critical questions about parenting abound. Moreover, the family generally, and parenting specifically, are today in a greater state of flux, question, and re-definition than perhaps…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Ecology, Parents, Parenting Skills