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van Schaik, Saskia D. M.; Oudgenoeg-Paz, Ora; Atun-Einy, Osnat – Developmental Psychology, 2018
The present study explored cultural differences in parental beliefs about motor development across 2 Western cultures: Israel and the Netherlands. Can 2 cultural models be distinguished regarding infant motor development in Israel and the Netherlands or are parental beliefs about motor development similar across these cultures? Using a…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cross Cultural Studies, Infants, Child Development
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Nadeem, Sanober; Rafique, Ghazala; Khowaja, Liaquat; Yameen, Anjum – Child Care in Practice, 2014
Family environment plays a very important role in early child development and the availability of stimulating material in the early years of a child's life is crucial for optimising development. The Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment (HOME) inventory is one of the most widely used measures to assess the quality and quantity of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Environment, Child Development, Early Experience
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Sloan, Seaneen; Stewart, Moira; Dunne, Laura – Child Care in Practice, 2010
Research on the effects of breastfeeding on child cognitive development has produced conflicting results, and many studies do not account for infant stimulation in the home. The aim of this study is to determine whether breastfeeding predicts enhanced cognitive development in one-year-old infants after controlling for the main socio-economic and…
Descriptors: Stimulation, Infants, Interviews, Regression (Statistics)
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Sanz, Maria Teresa; Menendez, Javier – Early Child Development and Care, 2010
This article reviews studies evaluating the effectiveness of two types of early intervention programmes for babies with Down's syndrome (DS). Evaluation of self-help early intervention programmes was done with two types of training with the parents: in the first the parents learned the training programme from observing the clinician, and in the…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Down Syndrome, Parent Education, Daily Living Skills