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A Responsive Parenting Intervention: The Optimal Timing across Early Childhood for Impacting Maternal Behaviors and Child Outcomes
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Landry, Susan H.; Smith, Karen E.; Swank, Paul R.; Guttentag, Cathy – Developmental Psychology, 2008
This study examined the optimal timing (infancy, toddler-preschool, or both) for facilitating responsive parenting and the intervention effects on maternal behaviors and child social and communication skills for children who vary in biological risk. The intervention during infancy, Playing and Learning Strategies (PALS I), showed strong changes in…
Descriptors: Intervention, Learning Strategies, Child Rearing, Toddlers
Comparison of Engagement Patterns of Young Children with Developmental Disabilities between Structured and Free Play
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Cress, Cynthia J.; Arens, Kelli B.; Zajicek, Alicia K. – Education and Training in Developmental Disabilities, 2007
Children with developmental disabilities are slower to develop skills at intentional and symbolic communication than typically developing children, and may rely on atypical patterns of preintentional behaviors to support more complex communication development. The present study compared complex gaze engagement behaviors elicited by 25…
Descriptors: Receptive Language, Psychomotor Skills, Behavior Change, Play
Interaction of Mothers with Their Infants Who Are Mentally Retarded, Retarded with Cerebral Palsy, or Nonretarded.
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Hanzlik, Jodie Redditi; Stevenson, Marguerite B. – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1986
Analysis of free play interaction between 40 mothers and their mentally retarded, retarded cerebral palsied, and nonretarded infants revealed that mothers of both groups of developmentally disabled (DD) infants were more directive than mothers of nonretarded infants. DD infants were more compliant and demonstrated lower levels of behavior and less…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Developmental Disabilities, Infants, Interaction
Nonverbal Interaction Patterns of Mothers and Their Infants with Cerebral Palsy.
Hanzlik, Jodie Redditi – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1990
The study observed interactions of mothers and infants in the homes of 20 families with infants having cerebral palsy (CP) and developmental delay and 20 families of nonhandicapped infants. Among findings were that mothers of CP infants were more verbally and physically directive and engaged in fewer positive behaviors in their initiation and…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cerebral Palsy, Developmental Disabilities, Infants
Compliance with Parental Prohibition in Autistic Children.
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Arbelle, Shoshana; And Others – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1994
Comparison of 28 young children with autism, 29 children with other developmental disabilities, and 28 typical children found that autistic children were significantly less compliant with parental prohibitions than were control groups. This behavior correlated with chronological age, not with mental age, language development, or parental behavior.…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Chronological Age
[Infants and Young Children with Pervasive Developmental Disorders.]
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Fenichel, Emily, Ed. – Zero to Three, 1992
This newsletter issue presents five articles addressing intervention with infants and toddlers having pervasive developmental disabilities. The first article is by Stanley I. Greenspan and is titled "Reconsidering the Diagnosis and Treatment of Very Young Children with Autistic Spectrum or Pervasive Developmental Disorder." This article…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Case Studies, Child Development, Clinical Diagnosis