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Direct linkCasenhiser, Devin M.; Shanker, Stuart G.; Stieben, Jim – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2013
The study evaluates a social-communication-based approach to autism intervention aimed at improving the social interaction skills of children with autism spectrum disorder. We report preliminary results from an ongoing randomized controlled trial of 51 children aged 2 years 0 months to 4 years 11 months. Participants were assigned to either a…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Young Children, Comparative Analysis
Candelaria, Margo; Teti, Douglas M.; Black, Maureen M. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2011
Background: Ecological and transactional theories link child outcomes to accumulated risk. This study hypothesized that cumulative risk was negatively related to attachment, and that maternal sensitivity mediated linkages between risk and attachment. Methods: One hundred and twelve high-risk African-American premature infant-mother dyads…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Marital Status, Mothers, Self Efficacy
Estacion, Angela; Cherlin, Andrew – Journal of Family Issues, 2010
This article investigates levels of generalized distrust of men among low-income non-Hispanic African American, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican and non-Hispanic White women in a three-city survey. The results reveal substantial variation. Hispanics' overall levels of distrust are found to be higher than levels for either African Americans or…
Descriptors: African Americans, Marital Status, Females, Whites
Norizan, A.; Shamsuddin, K. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2010
Background: Having children with intellectual disability can be stressful for most parents. Currently there are very few studies focusing on parenting stress among mothers of children with Down syndrome (DS) in Asia. The present study examined the level of parenting stress experienced by Malaysian mothers of children with DS and evaluated the…
Descriptors: Mothers, Down Syndrome, Child Rearing, Coping
Molteno, Christopher D.; Jacobson, Sandra W.; Carter, R. Colin; Jacobson, Joseph L. – Infancy, 2010
Infant symbolic play was examined in relation to prenatal alcohol exposure and socioenvironmental background and to predict which infants met criteria for fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) at 5 years. A total of 107 Cape-Colored, South African infants born to heavy drinking mothers and abstainers/light drinkers were recruited prenatally. Complexity of…
Descriptors: Play, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Drinking, Intelligence Quotient
Shu, Bih-Ching – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2009
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between the quality of life (QOL) and feeling of mothers of a child with autism. The QOL instrument was also used. A total of 104 participants completed all questionnaires, which included the Taiwan version of the WHOQOL-BREF. A final robust parsimonious structural model showed a positive…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Parent Attitudes, Correlation, Psychological Patterns
Bachman, Heather J.; Coley, Rebekah Levine; Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay – Applied Developmental Science, 2009
The present study investigated the association of mothers' marriage and changes in young adolescents' cognitive and socioemotional development and changes in family processes. Analyses employed longitudinal data from the "Three-City Study" to track maternal partnerships for 860 low-income adolescents (10-14 years-old in Wave 1) across a…
Descriptors: Mothers, Marriage, Early Adolescents, Cognitive Development
