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Kirkland, John; Bimler, David; Drawneek, Andrew; McKim, Margaret; Scholmerich, Axel – Early Child Development and Care, 2004
Attachment Q-Sort (AQS) is a tool for quantifying observations about toddler/caregiver relationships. Previous studies have applied factor analysis to the full 90 AQS item set to explore the structure underlying them. Here we explore that structure by applying multidimensional scaling (MDS) to judgements of inter-item similarity. AQS items are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Toddlers, Data Analysis, Parent Child Relationship
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Fletcher, Paul; Chan, Cathy W.-Y.; Wong, Peony T.-T.; Stokes, Stephanie; Tardif, Twila; Leung, Shirley C.-S. – Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 2004
Data from the Cantonese Communicative Development Inventory (CCDI) is used to review the phonological preferences of younger (16-22 months) and older (23-30 month) groups of children in the lexical items they are reported to be able to say. Analogous results to those found for English emerge from the Cantonese data: the younger group display…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Language Acquisition, Measures (Individuals), Vocabulary Development
United Nations Children's Fund, New York, NY. – 2000
Although the experiences from birth to age three influence how the rest of childhood unfolds, this critical time is usually neglected in the policies, programs, and budgets of countries around the world. This report details the daily lives of parents and other caregivers who are striving to protect the rights and meet the needs of young children.…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Brain, Child Health, Childhood Needs