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Elizabeth Leahey – Journal of Museum Education, 2025
This article offers a case study of "Small Acts, Big Impacts", an annual public program designed by education staff at Discovery Museum (Massachusetts, USA) to encourage children's development of empathy and social awareness. After observing unfortunate changes in visitor behavior, combined with the societal context of the global…
Descriptors: Empathy, Social Development, Children, Museums
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Margit Saltofte – Ethnography and Education, 2025
The MidWest Girls' Choir, composed of girls aged 14-21, have developed their social and bodily experienced knowledge during their years as part of a girls' choir so that they implicitly form the physical and social singing body. Choir singing is a process supported by the teaching and by the choir's practice of rehearsals and performances. This…
Descriptors: Females, Singing, Adolescents, Young Adults
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Eva Yin-han Chung; Kenneth Kuen-fung Sin; Daniel Hung-kay Chow – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Evidence-based robotic intervention programmes for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have been limited. As yet, there is insufficient evidence to inform therapists, teachers, and service providers on effectiveness of robotic intervention to enhance social development and participation of children with ASD in a real context. This study…
Descriptors: Robotics, Intervention, Children, Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Yin Fei Chan; Jinghan Liang; Meng Xie; Xiaobo Shi; Dan Lin – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2025
The current study illustrated a mediation model of different aspects of family environmental factors in predicting short-term memory and social understanding in Chinese children. The study investigated how children's short-term memory and social understanding were predicted by family environment factors, including socioeconomic status, home…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Short Term Memory, Social Development, Foreign Countries
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Poline Simon; Nathalie Nader-Grosbois – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Objectives: Two studies were conducted to better understand how children with intellectual disabilities (ID) empathize with the feelings of others during social interactions. The first study tested hypotheses of developmental delay or difference regarding empathy in 79 children with ID by comparing them with typically developing (TD) children,…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Empathy, Interaction, Interpersonal Relationship
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Lena Wintermantel; Christine Grove; Linda Henderson; Stella Laletas – Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2024
Objective: The purpose of this systematic review is to synthesise the available evidence of the impact of therapy dog-assisted interventions on the social and emotional wellbeing of students in mainstream school settings through the use of the biopsychosocial framework. Method: The PRISMA 2020 guidelines were followed, and the inclusion criteria…
Descriptors: Therapy, Animals, Intervention, Well Being
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Olivera Kamenarac – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2025
Over the last two decades, early childhood education (ECE) has come to the top of the political agenda in New Zealand and internationally. The interest of governments and policy-makers in ECE has been driven by the thinking that an 'investment' in ECE is a key for a country's future social and economic development (OECD 2007, "Policy Brief:…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Expertise, Social Development
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Anna Fridell; Nora Choque Olsson; Christina Coco; Sven Bölte; Ulf Jonsson – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
Social skills group training is frequently used to support autistic children and adolescents in coping with everyday social demands and expectations. Meta-analytic studies suggest small to medium effect sizes. Effect moderators must be better understood to inform implementation and allow optimization of intervention protocols. Using data from two…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Interpersonal Competence, Social Development, Skill Development
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Ágústa Á. Arnardóttir; Laufey Á. Guðmundsdóttir; Dagmar Kr. Hannesdóttir; Freyr Halldórsson; Helga Auðardóttir; Berglind Sveinbjörnsdóttir – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Purpose: Social skills difficulties among children on the autism spectrum can impede social, emotional, and academic development, especially with increasing age and social demands. This pilot study examined the efficacy of a 5-week skill-building program for children on the autism spectrum. Although effective social skills programs are available…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Program Evaluation, Friendship, Interpersonal Competence
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Juan Zhang – Journal of Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools, 2024
This article aims to investigate the significance of innovative musical education in fostering social skills among children and adolescents. To achieve this objective, the authors devised teaching approaches centered on the development of social skills through vocal training, utilizing modern technologies such as "Minute Voice WarmUp and…
Descriptors: Music Education, Interpersonal Competence, Skill Development, Social Development
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Nisar Abid; Sarfraz Aslam; Asmaa Azeem; Sharareh Shahidi-Hamedani – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2024
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is significantly known as social interaction impairment that can be reduced through early school-age intervention. The quasi-experimental research design was used to examine the effect of applied behavior analysis treatment on ASD children's interpersonal skills. The researchers used a purposive sampling technique to…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Applied Behavior Analysis, Program Effectiveness, Interpersonal Competence
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Alexander Skulmowski – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2025
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has become a major research trend in the fields of education and psychology. However, several risks posed by this technology concerning the cognitive and socio-emotional development of children and adolescents have been identified. While it would be highly useful to have a clear understanding of these…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Educational Research, Informed Consent, Risk
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Kate Freiberg; Ross Homel; Sara Branch; Jacqueline Allen; Tara Renae McGee; Daniela Vasco; Kathy Haskard – Applied Developmental Science, 2024
The need for a new measure of social-emotional wellbeing for children 6--12 years emerged in our collaboration with schools and community agencies in a disadvantaged region of Brisbane, Australia. Our search for an age-appropriate medium led us to develop "Clowning Around", a computer game generating data which was assessed for validity…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Measures (Individuals), Social Development, Emotional Development
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Jennifer C. Bullen; Sandy L. Birkeneder; Matthew C. Zajic; Lindsay Swain Lerro; Nancy McIntyre; Nicole Sparapani; Peter Mundy – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
A recent study suggests that parent report on the Social Symptom and Prosocial scales of the Childhood Joint Attention Rating Scale provides useful information about differences in the social development of school-aged autistic children. The current study provides additional psychometric data on the Childhood Joint Attention Rating Scale regarding…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Social Development, Child Development, Children
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Elspeth McInnes; Victoria Whitington; Bec Neill; Amy Farndale – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
This research examined the conditions under which codesigned approaches to educator professional learning in multilingual, birth to five settings were accessible and supportive of children's social and emotional development across diverse types of Australian early childhood services. The research sites, in the suburbs of a capital city, comprised…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Bilingual Students, Children
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