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Wakaba, Yoko Y. – 1981
Many studies using questionnaires and observational methods to collect information on the pointing gesture in infants have recently been performed. However, no study based on long-term observation is presently available that deals with the appearance and development of pointing as an interaction between mothers and their children. Therefore, this…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Communication Research, Developmental Stages, Foreign Countries
Shimada, Shoko – RIEEC Report, 1989
The study sought to examine developmental processes of substitution in the pretend play of Down's syndrome children and to clarify the onset mechanism of subskills in decontextualization, which refers to the progress from imitation to substitution and then to invention. Eighteen Japanese children, aged 29-55 months, with Down's syndrome were given…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Development, Comparative Analysis, Developmental Stages