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Noam Angrist; Sarah Kabay; Dean Karlan; Lincoln Lau; Kevin Wong – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Children spend most of their time at home in their early years, yet efforts to promote human capital at home in many low- and middle-income settings remain limited. We conduct a randomized controlled trial to evaluate an intervention which encourages parents and caregivers to foster human capital accumulation among their children between ages 3…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Participation
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Rodríguez-Guerrero, Yulmis Isabel; Gil-Madrona, Pedro; León, María Pilar; Vásquez-Cruz, Adrián Eduardo – Infant and Child Development, 2023
Literature suggests that motor skills are associated with other areas of development or domains, such as language and math, especially at early ages. These results are mainly based on studies developed in medium-to-high sociocultural contexts. Thus, this study was conducted in a medium-to-low-income area. The aim was to know the 4-5 years old…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Motor Development, Skill Development, Child Development
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Davis-Strauss, Susan L.; Johnson, Ensa; Lubbe, Welma – Journal of Early Intervention, 2021
International research, while mostly conducted in high-income countries, repeatedly states that parents of premature infants have increased needs and require additional information and varied support channels after the infant's initial discharge from hospital. However, the perceived self-reported needs of parents concerned with the caregiving of…
Descriptors: Premature Infants, Parents, Needs, Child Rearing
Hernandez, Donald J. – Foundation for Child Development, 2011
Americans are struggling through the greatest economic downturn since the Great Depression. In recent years, a significant body of research and analysis has documented the breakdown of the middle class and the impact of the current financial crisis on family income, housing, and jobs. But few reports have examined these impacts through the lens of…
Descriptors: Economic Climate, Trend Analysis, Role of Education, National Security
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Shimpi, Priya M.; Fedewa, Alicia; Hans, Sydney – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2012
The relation of social and linguistic input measures to early vocabulary development was examined in 30 low-income African American mother-infant pairs. Observations were conducted when the child was 0 years, 1 month (0;1), 0;4, 0;8, 1;0, 1;6, and 2;0. Maternal input was coded for word types and tokens, contingent responsiveness, and…
Descriptors: Outcome Measures, Correlation, Longitudinal Studies, Child Language
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Scherzer, Alfred L. – Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 2009
The awareness and knowledge of developmental milestones among health practitioners need to be enhanced to better enable early identification and intervention with children who have delays in development, intellectual deficit, and developmental disabilities and are residents in low-and middle-income countries. To meet this end, a simple one-page…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Developmental Disabilities, Disability Identification, Foreign Countries
Golomb, Claire; McLean, Lynn – 1982
The present study (1) explores the extent to which the standard format of the conservation assessment task may mask conserving abilities of preschoolers and (2) investigates how the wording of a typical conservation task may affect the type of justifications offered by children of two different socioeconomic backgrounds. Subjects included 48 4- to…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Ability, Learning Theories, Low Income Groups
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Squires, Jane K.; Potter, LaWanda; Bricker, Diane D.; Lamorey, Suzanne – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1998
Examined the use of the Ages and Stages Questionnaires with 96 low- and middle-income parents on their child from 4 to 30 months. Found that percent agreement between a professionally-administered standardized assessment and questionnaires completed by low and middle-income parents was 80% to 91% and 85% to 93%, respectively. (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Child Development, Comparative Analysis, Longitudinal Studies, Low Income Groups
Hardy, Janet B.; And Others – 1978
Demographic, biological, psychosocial and environmental data on 400 black and white families of lower middle and lower socioeconomic backgrounds were collected and synthesized to determine the factors influencing the development and acculturation of children born in urban Baltimore. A research team of pediatricians, epidemiologists, psychologists,…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Child Development, Elementary Education, Family Environment
Bornstein, Marc H., Ed.; Bradley, Robert H., Ed. – 2003
Noting that there is near universal agreement that children from families with higher socioeconomic status (SES) have access to more of the resources needed to support their positive development than do lower SES children, this monograph examines the myriad questions remaining regarding relations among SES, parenting, and child development from a…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Child Rearing, Children