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Meadan, Hedda; Stoner, Julia B.; Angell, Maureen E. – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
Emphasis on families' involvement in the education of children with disabilities is evident in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and in published best practices. However, most of the research related to families of children with disabilities has focused on mothers' experiences, involvement, and needs. There is limited…
Descriptors: Fathers, Autism, Parent Responsibility, Parent Role
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Anderson, S.; Aller, T. B.; Piercy, K. W.; Roggman, L. A. – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
Early childhood programmes (ECPs) serving children from low-income families are becoming increasingly interested in engaging fathers. The purpose of this study was to examine perspectives of diverse fathers with low incomes to more fully understand how their experiences within an ECP influenced father-role construction and facilitated their…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Father Attitudes, Fathers, Parent Role
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Meece, Darrell; Robinson, Cheryl Malone – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
Examined correlates of positive father caregiving and harsh control among 721 (350 girls) four-year-old children through analysis of NICHD Study of Early Child Care data and 7050 (3450 girls) four-year-old children through analysis of Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort data. Findings from both samples suggest that, for both boys and…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Parenting Styles, Young Children, Longitudinal Studies
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Bingham, Gary E.; Kwon, Kyong-Ah; Jeon, Hyun-Joo – Early Child Development and Care, 2013
This study investigated mothers' and fathers' language use in dyadic and triadic contexts. Specific attention was paid to factors associated with the quantity and quality of mother and father language use in triadic settings. Sixty-three predominantly middle-class, two-parent families with toddlers (age 16 to 37 months) participated. Mother-child…
Descriptors: Mothers, Fathers, Language Usage, Parent Child 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
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Addessi, Anna Rita – Early Child Development and Care, 2009
This paper deals with an action-research project currently being undertaken at the University of Bologna concerning the observation of music making during daily routines with under-four children during diaper change, bedtime and free-play. Several observational protocols were carried out in natural and spontaneous contexts. The data analysis was…
Descriptors: Play, Mothers, Musicians, Infants