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Cuartas, Jorge; McCoy, Dana; Sánchez, Juliana; Behrman, Jere; Cappa, Claudia; Donati, Georgina; Heymann, Jody; Lu, Chunling; Raikes, Abbie; Rao, Nirmala; Richter, Linda; Stein, Alan; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu – Developmental Science, 2023
This paper used longitudinal data from five studies conducted in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Ethiopia, and Rwanda to examine the links between family stimulation and early childhood development outcomes (N = 4904; M[subscript age] = 51.5; 49% girls). Results from random-effects and more conservative child-fixed effects models indicate that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Child Development, Family Environment
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Matthews, Danielle; Behne, Tanya; Lieven, Elena; Tomasello, Michael – Developmental Science, 2012
Despite its importance in the development of children's skills of social cognition and communication, very little is known about the ontogenetic origins of the pointing gesture. We report a training study in which mothers gave children one month of extra daily experience with pointing as compared with a control group who had extra experience with…
Descriptors: Socialization, Social Cognition, Control Groups, Language Acquisition
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O'Neill, Maria; Bard, Kim A.; Linnell, Maggie; Fluck, Michael – Developmental Science, 2005
Speech directed towards young children ("motherese") is subject to consistent systematic modifications. Recent research suggests that gesture directed towards young children is similarly modified (gesturese). It has been suggested that gesturese supports speech, therefore scaffolding communicative development (the facilitative…
Descriptors: Play, Mothers, Semantics, Infants