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Danilov, Igor Val – Online Submission, 2020
The question of the acquisition of the first social phenomena by newborns is a crucial issue both in understanding the mental development and the ontogenesis of social interaction. The review attempts to investigate other researches that observe social behavior in studies with no communication between subjects. This current analysis reviews…
Descriptors: Neonates, Infants, Recognition (Psychology), Social Behavior
Greenwood, Charles R.; Carta, Judith J.; Schnitz, Alana G.; Higgins, Susan; Buzhardt, Jay; Walker, Dale; Jia, Fan; Irvin, Dwight – Journal of Early Intervention, 2021
Measures of young children's social development are needed in the Multi-Tier System of Supports (MTSS) approach to early childhood. In 2004, we reported initial development of an observational measure of infants' and toddlers' social skills designed for early educators, the Early Social Indicator (ESI). Here, we report preliminary findings on the…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Social Indicators, Child Development
Greenwood, Charles R.; Carta, Judith J.; Schnitz, Alana G.; Higgins, Susan; Buzhardt, Jay; Walker, Dale; Jia, Fan; Irvin, Dwight – Grantee Submission, 2021
Measures of young children's social development are needed in the MultiTier System of Supports (MTSS) approach to early childhood. In 2004, we reported initial development of an observational measure of infants' and toddlers' social skills designed for early educators, the Early Social Indicator (ESI). Here, we report preliminary findings on the…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Social Indicators, Child Development
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Roos, Carin; Cramér-Wolrath, Emelie; Falkman, Kerstin W. – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2016
This study is part of a larger longitudinal project with the aim of focusing early social interaction and development of mentalizing ability in 12 deaf infants, including the interaction between the infants and their deaf parents. The aim of the present paper is to describe early social interaction and moments of intersubjectivity between the deaf…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Parent Child Relationship, Deafness
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White, E. Jayne – Mind, Culture, and Activity, 2013
This article challenges traditional approaches to emotion as a discreet biological or dialectic process in the early years. In doing so the proposition is made that emotion is an answerable social act of meaning-making and self-hood. Inspired by Bakhtinian philosophy, which resists separating emotion from cognition or the individual from their…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Infants, Toddlers, Mathematics Education
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Messinger, Daniel S.; Ekas, Naomi V.; Ruvolo, Paul; Fogel, Alan D. – Infancy, 2012
The degree to which infants' current actions are influenced by previous action is fundamental to our understanding of early social and cognitive competence. In this study, we found that infant gazing manifested notable temporal dependencies during interaction with mother even when controlling for mother behaviors. The durations of infant gazes at…
Descriptors: Interaction, Infants, Mothers, Attention
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Mulligan, Shelley – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2015
Case study research methodology was used to describe the play behaviors of three infants at 12 months of age, who were later diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. Data included standardized test scores, and analyses of video footage of semi-structured play sessions from infants identified as high risk for autism, because of having a sibling…
Descriptors: Autism, Case Studies, Infants, Play
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Williams, Shannon Tierney; Ontai, Lenna L.; Mastergeorge, Ann M. – Social Development, 2010
Peer interaction is an important component of children's social repertoires that is associated with a variety of developmental outcomes and life skills. The present study provides an in-depth study of early dyadic peer behaviors during the infancy period, during which social competence with peers is first being developed. Results from…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Infants, Interaction, Social Environment
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Williams, Shannon Tierney; Mastergeorge, Ann M.; Ontai, Lenna L. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2010
Establishing positive peer relationships is integral to children's social development and is linked to a variety of long-term outcomes and life skills. The present study provides an in-depth examination of the ways in which child care providers guide young children in their early social experiences with peers during infancy, when social competence…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Infants, Peer Relationship, Interaction
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Chiang, Chung-Hsin; Soong, Wei-Tsuen; Lin, Tzu-Ling; Rogers, Sally J. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2008
Objective: The study was to examine nonverbal communication in young children with autism. Methods: The participants were 23 young children with autism (mean CA = 32.79 months), 23 CA and MA-matched children with developmental delay and 22 18-20-month-old, and 22 13-15-month-old typically developing toddlers and infants. The abbreviated Early…
Descriptors: Young Children, Nonverbal Communication, Autism, Infants
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Ferguson, Lucy Rau – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly of Behavior and Development, 1971
Paper presented at the Merrill-Palmer Conference on Research and Teaching of Infant Development, February 13-15, 1970. (JE)
Descriptors: Imitation, Infants, Interaction, Sex Differences
Vandell, Deborah Lowe – 1979
In this study of early peer interaction, 32 first born infants (16 boys, 16 girls) were videotaped in pairs at 6, 9 and 12 months. Each 15 minute session consisted of Toys Present (TP) and Toys Absent(TA) conditions counterbalanced across dyads. Three questions were addressed: (1) Are infants as young as 6 months capable of interacting with a…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Infant Behavior, Infants, Interaction
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Carta, Judith; Greenwood, Charles; Luze, Gayle; Cline, Gabriel; Kuntz, Susan – Journal of Early Intervention, 2004
Proficiency in social interaction with adults and peers is an important outcome in early childhood. The development of an experimental measure for assessing growth in social skills in children birth to 3 years is described. Based on the general outcome measurement (GOM) approach (e.g., Deno, 1997), the measure is intended for use by early…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Toddlers, Social Behavior, Psychometrics
Hayes, Alan – 1981
The paper analyzes changes in conceptions of social interaction in infancy from a unidirectional process to a bidirectional one requiring dyadic analysis. Developments in the fields of ethology and comparative psychology are cited as are implications of early behaviorist research that pointed out the effects on the mother of the infant's behavior.…
Descriptors: Infants, Interaction, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship
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Carta, Judith; Greenwood, Charles; Luze, Gayle; Cline, Gabriel; Kuntz, Susan – Journal of Early Intervention, 2004
Proficiency in social interaction with adults and peers is an important outcome in early childhood. The development of an experimental measure for assessing growth in social skills in children birth to 3 years is described. Based on the general outcome measurement (GOM) approach (e.g., Deno, 1997), the measure is intended for use by early…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Toddlers, Social Behavior, Psychometrics
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