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Culture and the Perceived Organization of Newborn Behavior: A Comparative Study in Kenya and the United States
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Super, Charles M.; Harkness, Sara – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
The behavior of newborns is ambiguous. Cultural models--representations shared by members of a community--provide new parents and others with a cognitive and motivational structure to understand them. This study asks members of several cultural groups (total n = 100) to judge the "similarity" of behavioral items in the Neonatal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Neonates, Infant Behavior, Cultural Differences
Family Nurture Intervention in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Improves Social-Relatedness, Attention, and Neurodevelopment of Preterm Infants at 18 Months in a Randomized Controlled Trial
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Welch, Martha G.; Firestein, Morgan R.; Austin, Judy; Hane, Amie A.; Stark, Raymond I.; Hofer, Myron A.; Garland, Marianne; Glickstein, Sara B.; Brunelli, Susan A.; Ludwig, Robert J.; Myers, Michael M. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2015
Background: Preterm infants are at high risk for adverse neurodevelopmental and behavioral outcomes. Family Nurture Intervention (FNI) in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is designed to counteract adverse effects of separation of mothers and their preterm infants. Here, we evaluate effects of FNI on neurobehavioral outcomes. Methods: Data…
Descriptors: Premature Infants, Neonates, Neurological Impairments, At Risk Persons
The Relationship between Behavior Ratings and Concurrent and Subsequent Mental and Motor Performance in Toddlers Born at Extremely Low Birth Weight
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Messinger, Daniel; Lambert, Brittany; Bauer, Charles R.; Bann, Carla M.; Hamlin-Smith, Kasey; Das, Abhik – Journal of Early Intervention, 2010
When predicting child developmental outcomes, reliance on children's scores on measures of developmental functioning alone might mask more subtle behavioral difficulties, especially in children with developmental risk factors. The current study examined predictors and stability of examiner behavior ratings and their association with concurrent and…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Early Intervention, Toddlers, Rating Scales
Behavior of Infant Chimpanzees during the Night in the First 4 Months of Life: Smiling and Suckling in Relation to Behavioral State
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Mizuno, Yuu; Takeshita, Hideko; Matsuzawa, Tetsuro – Infancy, 2006
This article reports the behavior of 3 newborn chimpanzees in the first 4 months of life, reared by their mothers and living in a community of 14 chimpanzees in a semi-natural enriched environment. We focused on spontaneous activity during the night partly because sleeping behavior constitutes an essential part of the infants' activity.…
Descriptors: Animals, Mothers, Observation, Eye Movements
Newborn Infants' Sensitivity to Perceptual Cues to Lexical and Grammatical Words.
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Shi, Rushen; Werker, Janet F.; Morgan, James L. – Cognition, 1999
Presented neonates with lexical and grammatical words prepared from natural maternal speech. Found that neonates could categorically discriminate the sets based on a constellation of perceptual cues that distinguished them. Suggested that this ability to discriminate words on basis of multiple acoustic/phonological cues provides a perceptual base…
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Classification, Cognitive Development, Cues
Developmental Pathways through Childhood for Children Treated in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
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Ellison, Patricia; Foster, Mark – ACTA Paediatrica, 1992
Examined over 200 perinatal variables relating to mothers and to children's neurological, cognitive, and motor functions at 15 months and 4 and 7 years. Factor analysis identified latent variables that characterized covariations among perinatal variables. There were many correlations to children's outcomes, particularly for variables relating to…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Followup Studies, Longitudinal Studies
Infant Assessment: Issues and Applications.
Darby, Betty L., Ed.; May, Marcia J., Ed. – 1979
The book offers 14 papers presented at two conferences on assessment and intervention with handicapped infants, sponsored by the Western States Technical Assistance Resource. Titles and authors include: "Neonatal Diagnosis of the Neurologically Handicapped" (M. Coleman); "Principles of Infant Assessment" (J. Swanson); "Focus on the Parent-Infant…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Communication Skills, Down Syndrome