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Object Exploration Is Facilitated by the Physical and Social Environment in Center-Based Child Care
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Ine H. van Liempd; Ora Oudgenoeg-Paz; Paul P. M. Leseman – Child Development, 2025
Object exploration is considered a driver of motor, cognitive, and social development. However, little is known about how early childhood education and care settings facilitate object exploration. This study examined if children's exploration of objects during free play was facilitated by the use of particular spatial components (floor, tables,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Toddlers, Preschool Children, Object Manipulation
School Readiness Losses during the COVID-19 Outbreak. A Comparison of Two Cohorts of Young Children
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González, Meliza; Loose, Tianna; Liz, Maite; Pérez, Mónica; Rodríguez-Vinçon, Juan I.; Tomás-Llerena, Clementina; Vásquez-Echeverría, Alejandro – Child Development, 2022
The COVID-19 context has created the most severe disruption to education systems in recent history. Its impact on child development was estimated comparing two cohorts of 4- to 6-year-old Uruguayan children: control (n = 34,355, 48.87% girls) and COVID cohort (n = 30,158, 48.95% girls) assessed between 2018 and 2020 in three waves, by a routinely…
Descriptors: School Readiness, COVID-19, Pandemics, Foreign Countries
Why Are Children so Distractible? Development of Attention and Motor Control from Childhood to Adulthood
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Hoyer, Roxane S.; Elshafei, Hesham; Hemmerlin, Julie; Bouet, Romain; Bidet-Caulet, Aurélie – Child Development, 2021
Distractibility is the propensity to behaviorally react to irrelevant information. Although children are more distractible the younger they are, the precise contribution of attentional and motor components to distractibility and their developmental trajectories have not been characterized yet. We used a new behavioral paradigm to identify the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Psychomotor Skills, Motor Development, Attention Control
The Impact of Maternal Gestational Stress on Motor Development in Late Childhood and Adolescence: A Longitudinal Study
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Grace, Tegan; Bulsara, Max; Robinson, Monique; Hands, Beth – Child Development, 2016
The number and timing of stressors experienced during pregnancy were investigated using longitudinal data from the Western Australian Pregnancy (Raine) Study cohort (N = 2,900). Motor development data were collected at 10 (n = 1,622), 14 (n = 1,584), and 17 (n = 1,222) years using the McCarron Assessment of Neuromuscular Development. Linear mixed…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Prenatal Influences, Foreign Countries, Pregnancy
The Bacon Chow Study: Maternal Nutritional Supplementation and Infant Behavioral Development.
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Joos, Sandra K.; And Others – Child Development, 1983
Examines the effect of nutritional supplementation provided to mothers during pregnancy and lactation on the mental and motor development of their infants. While neither sex nor mental differences could be attributed to supplementation, motor development in infants was affected. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Foreign Countries, Infant Behavior, Mothers
Specific Differences in Motor Performance between Gusii and American Newborns and a Modification of the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale.
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Keefer, Constance H.; And Others – Child Development, 1982
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Individual Differences
Infant Temperament and Genetics: An Objective Twin Study of Motor Activity Level.
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Saudino, Kimberly J.; Eaton, Warren O. – Child Development, 1991
The activity level of 60 pairs of infant twins was measured for 2 days. Differences in activity level for monozygotic and dizygotic twins, as indicated by motion recorders and parent ratings, showed evidence of genetic influences. (BC)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Genetics, Infants, Measurement Techniques
The Predictive Validity of Infant Assessments in Rural Guatemala.
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Lasky, Robert E.; And Others – Child Development, 1981
The behavioral development of rural Guatemalan infants was assessed shortly after birth on a Neonatal Assessment Scale (NAS) and at 6-, 15-, and 24-months-of-age on a Composite Infant Scale (CIS). Summary variables based on NAS performance poorly predicted later assessed performance even as recently as six months after birth. The CIS modestly…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Foreign Countries, Infant Behavior