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The Development of Categorization in Early Childhood: A Review
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Owen, Kay; Barnes, Christopher – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Despite receiving scant attention, the evolution of categorization in early childhood is of central importance, not only in clarifying the child's understanding of the world but in terms of refining cognitive organization and augmenting the development of semantic memory. In this review, we outline how categorization develops and is made manifest…
Descriptors: Classification, Early Childhood Education, Semantics, Memory
Effects of an Early Intervention Program by the ICF Model on the Neuropsychomotor Development and Quality of Life in Babies in Daycare
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Mélo, Tainá Ribas; Araujo, Luize Bueno de; Ferreira, Manoela de Paula; Israel, Vera Lúcia – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
This study aims at checking the effects of an early intervention program (EIP) on the neuropsychomotor development (NPMD) and quality of life (QoL) of 4-18 months old babies attending daycare, following the biopsychosocial (BPS) model of health and the International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health (ICF). It was a…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Infants, Psychomotor Skills, Motor Development
The Development of Father-Child Attachment: Associations between Adult Attachment Representations, Recollections of Childhood Experiences and Caregiving
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McFarland-Piazza, Laura; Hazen, Nancy; Jacobvitz, Deborah; Boyd-Soisson, Erin – Early Child Development and Care, 2012
The association between fathers' adult attachment representations and their recollections of childhood experiences with their caregiving quality with their eight-month-old infants and with father-infant attachment classification was examined in a longitudinal study of 117 fathers and their infants. Sensitive caregiving was related to…
Descriptors: Children, Attachment Behavior, Classification, Infants
The Vicissitudes of Mother-Infant Relationships between Birth and Six Years
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Priddis, Lynn E.; Howieson, Noel D. – Early Child Development and Care, 2009
This study examined contributions of maternal sensitivity and maternal representation of childhood experiences to differences in attachment strategies in a cohort of infants from birth to six years. Antenatal maternal attachment representation was assessed with the Adult Attachment Interview. Maternal sensitivity was assessed with the Child-Adult…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Infants, Attachment Behavior, Parent Child Relationship
The Risky Situation: A Procedure for Assessing the Father-Child Activation Relationship
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Paquette, Daniel; Bigras, Marc – Early Child Development and Care, 2010
Initial validation data are presented for the Risky Situation (RS), a 20-minute observational procedure designed to assess the father-child activation relationship with children aged 12-18 months. The coding grid, which is simple and easy to use, allows parent-child dyads to be classified into three categories and provides an activation score. By…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Fathers, Risk, Validity
A Multi-Axial Scheme for Assessment and Intervention.
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Kirkland, John; Morgan, Griffith – Early Child Development and Care, 1984
Describes a scheme consisting of nine elements or "themes" ordered in terms of their more probable links developed from clinical work with crying infants. Theme categories are genetic/hereditary, psychiatric disorder, central nervous system, medical health (chronic), medical health (acute), nutrition/allergy, form, psychosocial…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Classification, Infants, Intervention