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Morales-Murillo, Catalina P.; García-Grau, Pau; Grau-Sevilla, María Dolores; Soucase-Lozano, Beatriz – Infants and Young Children, 2020
This study looked at the effect of mother's educational level, child emotional difficulties, peer interactions, age, and gender on children's sophistication level of engagement. Eighty-six randomly selected children, aged between 36 and 72 months, and 20 teachers from 5 early childhood education centers in Valencia, Spain, participated in the…
Descriptors: Infants, Parent Background, Educational Attainment, Mothers
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Giagazoglou, Paraskevi – Infants and Young Children, 2013
The aim of this study was to examine and describe the effect of gender and socioeconomic status (SES) on preschool-aged children's overall development. Two hundred fifty-five preschoolers (125 boys and 130 girls), with a mean age of 56 plus or minus 9 months, were randomly selected from day care centers and kindergartens of different areas of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Preschool Children, Socioeconomic Influences
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Sylvestre, Audette; Desmarais, Chantal; Meyer, Francois; Bairati, Isabelle; Rouleau, Nancie; Merette, Chantal – Infants and Young Children, 2012
The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine child and environmental factors known to be associated to language development and how they relate to results in expressive vocabulary, expressive language, and receptive language in language-delayed toddlers. The cross-sectional data on 96 French-speaking children aged 18-36 months were…
Descriptors: Receptive Language, Expressive Language, French, Toddlers
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Hanson, Marci J.; Miller, Angela D.; Diamond, Karen; Odom, Samuel; Lieber, Joan; Butera, Gretchen; Horn, Eva; Palmer, Susan; Fleming, Kandace – Infants and Young Children, 2011
The effects of economic hardship and language isolation in children's neighborhood communities were examined to determine their influence on young children's developmental outcomes on measures of academic and social skills above and beyond child and family characteristics that included home language, disability, gender, and mother's education…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, School Readiness, Family Characteristics, Second Language Learning