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Associations among Symbolic Functioning, Joint Attention, Expressive Communication, and Executive Functioning of Children in Rural Areas
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Chun-Hao Chiu; Bradford H. Pillow; The Family Life Project Key Investigators – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2024
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relations among children's symbolic functioning at 15 months, joint attention at 24 months, expressive communication at 24 and 36 months, and executive functioning at 36 months. With the sample from rural areas in the United States collected by the Family Life Project (N = 1,008), a longitudinal data…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Family Life, Expressive Language, Verbal Communication
Building on What You Have Learned: Object Construction Skill during Infancy Predicts the Comprehension of Spatial Relations Words
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Marcinowski, Emily C.; Campbell, Julie Marie – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
Object construction involves organizing multiple objects into a unified structure (e.g., stacking blocks into a tower) and may provide infants with unique spatial information. Because object construction entails placing objects in spatial locations relative to one another, infants can acquire information about spatial relations during construction…
Descriptors: Infants, Spatial Ability, Comprehension, Construction (Process)