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Hassinger-Das, Brenna; Schwartz, Rebecca; Tavdgiridze, Mari; Mercedes, Nayrovi; Salerno, Marie; Takoukam, Nowou Cyrielle Talla; Gamzehlatova, Joshua; Zosh, Jennifer M. – American Journal of Play, 2023
The authors examined technological and traditional infant toys to understand the U.S. toy market facing today's care givers. They found significant differences in the two types of toys in terms of their developmental targets--with more traditional toys aimed at physical development and more technological toys aimed at cognitive development. Given…
Descriptors: Toys, Infants, Play, Technology
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Christie, Stella – Infant and Child Development, 2022
Play is an essential component of childhood, but parents and educators sometimes view it as an optional add-on, which gets in the way of learning. This view persists in spite of evidence that play is helpful and sometimes critical to learning in multiple domains, perhaps because precise mechanisms whereby play occasions learning are not well…
Descriptors: Play, Child Development, Learning Processes, Correlation
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Pane, Heather M.; Sidener, Tina M.; Reeve, Sharon A.; Kisamore, April; Nirgudkar, Anjalee – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2022
Although neurotypical children often spend the majority of their time engaged in play activities, children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) can present with substantial delays in the development of play skills, requiring intensive intervention. Although targets for language and basic learning skills are often selected based on the development…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Play, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Adrienne Thorne; Karen Stagnitti; Judi Parson – American Journal of Play, 2024
The authors compare pretend play and executive function both in preschool children with an acquired brain injury and in neurotypical preschool children. They find the ability to produce logical, sequenced pretend play actions and object substitutions in play correlates strongly with executive function ability in both groups, and working memory…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Executive Function, Play, Brain
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Lu, Linxi; Vasilyeva, Marina; Laski, Elida V. – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Given the established role of parental talk in the growth of math knowledge in preschoolers, there has been an increasing focus on identifying ways to promote parental math talk at this stage of child development. The current study investigated how parental math talk is affected by features of play materials and contexts. The features were…
Descriptors: Play, Mathematics Instruction, Parent Child Relationship, Child Development
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Ellwood-Lowe, Monica E.; Foushee, Ruthe; Srinivasan, Mahesh – Developmental Science, 2022
Parents with fewer educational and economic resources (low socioeconomic-status, SES) tend to speak less to their children, with consequences for children's later life outcomes. Despite this well-established and highly popularized link, less research addresses why the SES "word gap" exists. Moreover, while research has assessed…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Child Development, Socioeconomic Status, Speech Communication
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Wei Mao; Laura K. Doan; Victoria Handford – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Although scholars have researched Chinese parents' perspectives on play pedagogy, few investigate the differences between parents of preschoolers and early primary schoolers, non-immigrant and immigrant parents. The present study employs the theoretical framework of parental ethnotheories to describe parental understanding and concerns about the…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Elementary School Students
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Chen, Chi-hsin; Houston, Derek M.; Yu, Chen – Child Development, 2021
This research takes a dyadic approach to study early word learning and focuses on toddlers' (N = 20, age: 17-23 months) "information seeking" and parents' "information providing" behaviors and the ways the two are coupled in real-time parent-child interactions. Using head-mounted eye tracking, this study provides the first…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Information Seeking, Toddlers, Eye Movements
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Veraksa, Alexander Nikolaevich; Gavrilova, Margarita Nikolaevna; Bukhalenkova, Daria ?lexeevna; Almazova, Olga; Veraksa, Nickolay Evgenievich; Colliver, Yeshe – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Previous research has indicated that young children's executive functions (EFs) can be bolstered through role-play [e.g. the 'Batman™ effect'; White et al.]. However, what is not clear is whether it is the role-playing of another's perspective, or something about the role played, which is responsible for the Batman™ effect. The current experiment…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Child Development, Comparative Analysis, Role Playing
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Aihua Hu; Elin Eriksen Ødegaard – International Perspectives on Education and Society, 2019
This chapter comparatively analyzes the most recent national curriculum guidelines for early childhood education (ECE) in Norway, Finland, China, and Hong Kong. By exploring the aims and dominant concepts in the guidelines, we aspire to better understand how governments of different cultures utilize the dominant concepts, that is, play and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Play, National Curriculum
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Lundy, Allison; Trawick-Smith, Jeffrey – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2021
Physical activity--including outdoor motor play--has been associated with learning and brain-related functions and abilities in elementary school children and adolescence. Few studies have been conducted on the relationships between active play and these cognitive processes in preschool aged children. Several investigations have revealed that…
Descriptors: Play, Outdoor Education, Physical Activities, Motor Development
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Colliver, Yeshe; Arguel, Amael; Parrila, Rauno – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2021
Early literacy is largely acquired through child-led learning, yet current ways to support and enhance it may present problems of coercion and adult control. The "Following in our Footsteps II" intervention sought to circumvent such problems by teaching parent and educator pairs of 46 preschoolers how to make everyday literacy and…
Descriptors: Literacy, Adult Literacy, Learning Processes, Child Development
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Inan, Hatice Zeynep – International Journal of Curriculum and Instruction, 2021
The Reggio Emilia pedagogy is compatible with literacy education goals. However, just a few detailed accounts have been published about how literacy instruction is integrated into the Reggio Emilia-inspired preschools. The study adopted qualitative research design and aimed to fill this gap by conducting a metaethnographic study by examining and…
Descriptors: Reggio Emilia Approach, Teaching Methods, Preschool Education, Literacy Education
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Gangi, Devon N.; Boterberg, Sofie; Schwichtenberg, Amy J.; Solis, Erika; Young, Gregory S.; Iosif, Ana-Maria; Ozonoff, Sally – Child Development, 2021
Two independent cohorts (N = 155, N = 126) of infants at high and low risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) were followed prospectively between 6 and 36 months of age, when n = 46 were diagnosed with ASD. Gaze to adult faces was coded--during a developmental assessment (Cohort 1) or a play interaction (Cohort 2). Across both cohorts, most…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Early Intervention, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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Leach, Jamie; Howe, Nina; DeHart, Ganie – Infant and Child Development, 2019
The present study examined children's co-construction of shared meanings and internal state language during play with their sibling and friend from early to middle childhood. Sixty-five 4-year-old children (T1) and 46 7-year-old children (T2) were observed in the home during two free play sessions with a sibling and with a friend at both time…
Descriptors: Play, Sibling Relationship, Correlation, Peer Relationship
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