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Robert Hepach; Michael Tomasello – Child Development Perspectives, 2025
Chimpanzees and other great apes seem to be much less cooperative than humans overall, yet they nevertheless reliably help others in many instrumental circumstances. Although in many contexts the helping behavior of chimpanzees is quite similar to that of human children, recent studies using both behavioral and psychophysiological paradigms have…
Descriptors: Animals, Cooperation, Prosocial Behavior, Children
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Alison M. O'Connor; Jennifer Gongola; Kaila C. Bruer; Thomas D. Lyon; Angela D. Evans – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2025
The accurate detection of children's truthful and dishonest reports is essential as children can serve as important providers of information. Research using automated facial coding and machine learning found that children who were asked to lie about an event were more likely to look surprised when hearing the first question during an interview…
Descriptors: Deception, Nonverbal Communication, Recognition (Psychology), Children
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Hülya Ceren Tutuk; Tezcan Çavusoglu; Hilal Atlar Yildirim; Hasan Gürgür – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2025
Family-Centered Early Intervention (FCEI) involves developing parents' knowledge and skills through parent coaching to support the listening and language development of their children with hearing loss. The traditional delivery of parent coaching at FCEI has been in in-person settings. With the advancement of technology, telepractice has become…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Parent Child Relationship, Early Intervention, Children
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Ercenur Ünal; Kevser Kirbasoglu; Dilay Z. Karadöller; Beyza Sümer; Asli Özyürek – Cognitive Science, 2025
In spoken languages, children acquire locative terms in a cross-linguistically stable order. Terms similar in meaning to in and on emerge earlier than those similar to "front" and "behind," followed by "left" and "right." This order has been attributed to the complexity of the relations expressed by…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Cognitive Mapping, Spatial Ability, Language Processing
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Esra Coskun; Saziye Senem Basgül – International Journal of Modern Education Studies, 2025
This study examined the effects of Child-Centered Play Therapy (CCPT) on selfcompassion and emotion regulation skills in 8- to 12-year-old children diagnosed with cancer. The study was conducted using a pretest-posttest design with a control group. The participants were children undergoing long-term cancer treatment at Necmettin Erbakan University…
Descriptors: Cancer, Play, Therapy, Daily Living Skills
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Erinn J. Victory; Lindsay R. Druskin; Sharon T. Phillips; Robin C. Han; Anishka Jean; Kelsey R. Keen; Emily Aman; Jocelyn Stokes; Jennifer Kirby; Cheryl B. McNeil – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2025
Background: With opioid misuse rates increasing dramatically over the past two decades, an entire generation of children faces a heightened risk of adverse physical, mental, and behavioral health outcomes. Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) is an evidence-based intervention for children aged 2-to-7 years and their caregivers that improves…
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Narcotics, Parent Child Relationship, Therapy
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Mélanie van Barreveld; Annette Scheper; Constance Vissers; Iris Duinmeijer; Britt Hakvoort – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2025
Background: It is well-established that children and adolescents with developmental language disorder (DLD) have social-emotional difficulties. This is reflected in their behaviour, for instance, by (social) withdrawal, hyperactivity or difficulty with peer relations. Children with DLD are also known to have poorer quality of life (QoL). This is…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Quality of Life, Language Impairments, Research Reports
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Aylin Coskun Kunduz; Silvina Montrul – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2025
Aspectual and mood morphology are vulnerable domains in adult heritage speakers. This paper investigates the root of such vulnerability within the domain of Turkish evidentiality system by comparing 20 second-generation adult and 20 school-age child Turkish heritage speakers to 20 first-generation immigrants (main input providers for child…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Story Telling, Turkish, Immigrants
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Harry R. M. Purser; Vesna Stojanovik; Christopher Jarrold; Emily K. Farran; Michael S. C. Thomas; Jo Van Herwegen – First Language, 2025
Despite earlier claims that language abilities are intact in individuals with Williams syndrome (WS), many studies have shown that language development is often delayed and atypical, that is, it develops in line with different cognitive abilities compared to typically developing populations. It is unclear, however, whether general cognitive…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Processing, Child Development, Intellectual Disability
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Mateja Gabaj; Jelena Kuvac Kraljevic; Marleen F. Westerveld – First Language, 2025
This study aims to investigate the linguistic organisation and coherence of personal narratives among children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) to provide insight into their communication skills in everyday contexts. A cohort of 10-year-old Croatian-speaking children diagnosed with DLD (n = 50, M = 10;8) and their gender-matched…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Acquisition, Developmental Delays, Language Impairments