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Zamani, Zahra – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2017
A number of studies have identified childcare environments as significant resources for children's development, learning through play, and contact with nature. However, there is a lack of knowledge about how, from a child's perspective, specific outdoor physical environments in preschools stimulate children's cognitive play. Emphasizing on the…
Descriptors: Young Children, Play, Outdoor Education, Preschool Education
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Lawrence, Sandra M. – Early Education and Development, 2018
Research Findings: Digital play is now commonplace in many young children's lives, but not in preschool settings. This situation is likely due to the fact that the existent literature seldom highlights what digital play looks like, the various ways it can be situated, and what young children do when they play together with digital devices in the…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Interaction
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Goldman, Samantha E.; Glover, Carrie A.; Lloyd, Blair P.; Barton, Erin E.; Mello, Maria P. – Exceptionality, 2018
Low-income, minority families are underrepresented in the literature on parent training for school-aged children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Although the use of visual supports, such as visual schedules, is considered to be an evidence-based practice for children with ASD in school, it is not known whether this strategy is effective for…
Descriptors: African American Children, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Low Income Groups
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Arthur, James; Powell, Sacha; Lin, Hsing-Chiung – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2014
This article focuses on methodological issues arising in a study of character development, using illustrations of "sharing behaviours." Based primarily in six early years settings in southeast England the research records naturalistic observations of peer interactions for 55 children aged three to six years. Applying grounded theory to…
Descriptors: Sharing Behavior, Naturalistic Observation, Foreign Countries, Research Methodology
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Opartkiattikul, Watinee; Arthur-Kelly, Michael; Dempsey, Ian – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2016
Functional Behavioural Assessment (FBA) is identified as a research-based approach used in many Western schools to support student behaviour. This study aimed to assist Thai classroom teachers by providing a professional development and learning programme in FBA to develop an effective and efficient process to address behaviour problems and allow…
Descriptors: Functional Behavioral Assessment, Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Behavior Problems
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Whetstone, Patti J.; Gillmor, Susan C.; Schuster, Jonathan G. – Rural Special Education Quarterly, 2015
Ten at-risk students in a rural high school completed a social skills program based on metacognitive strategies and aligned with social and emotional learning principles. The intervention's primary goal was to stimulate the development of metacognitive strategies for internal locus of control in the students, rather than attempting to change their…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Intervention, Adolescents, Metacognition
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Galano, Maria M.; Miller, Laura E.; Graham-Bermann, Sandra A. – Child Care in Practice, 2014
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a serious problem for children exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV). Recent changes to diagnostic criteria for PTSD include a reduction in avoidance symptom criteria from three to one and the separation of emotional numbing from avoidance symptoms, thus creating a need to better understand how…
Descriptors: Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Family Violence, Clinical Diagnosis
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Golombok, Susan; Ilioi, Elena; Blake, Lucy; Roman, Gabriela; Jadva, Vasanti – Developmental Psychology, 2017
The aim of the 6th phase of this longitudinal study was to establish whether children born through assisted reproduction involving reproductive donation were at risk for psychological problems following the transition to adolescence at age 14 and, if so, to examine the nature of these problems and the mechanisms involved. Eighty-seven families…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, At Risk Persons, Psychological Patterns, Early Adolescents
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Wu, Shu Chen – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2014
This study examines the practical and conceptual dimensions of children's play in German and Hong Kong Chinese kindergartens. German ("n"?=?24) and Chinese ("n"?=?24) children (3-6 years) were randomly selected and videotaped during their free play for 5?min continuously on five consecutive days. Play behavior was analyzed by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Video Technology, Play
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Bigham, K.; Daley, D. M.; Hastings, R. P.; Jones, R. S. P. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2013
Background: Although children with intellectual disability (ID) seemed to be at increased risk for Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)/hyperactivity problems when assessed with parent report questionnaires and clinical interviews, there has been little attention to the associations between parent reports and observed child behaviours.…
Descriptors: Severe Mental Retardation, Comorbidity, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Children
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Karuppiah, Nirmala – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
This exploratory research project was aimed at developing baseline data on computer habits and behaviours among preschool children in Singapore. Three sets of data were collected from teachers, parents and children which are (1) why and how young children use computers; (2) what are the key physical, social and health habits and behaviours of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Computer Attitudes, Child Behavior
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Frederickson, Norah; Jones, Alice P.; Warren, Laura; Deakes, Tara; Allen, Geoff – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2013
An initial evaluation of the utility of designing an intervention to address neuroscience-based subtyping of children who have conduct problems was undertaken in this pilot study. Drawing on the literature on callous-unemotional traits, a novel intervention programme, "Let's Get Smart", was implemented in a school for children with…
Descriptors: Cognitive Science, Neurosciences, Cognitive Development, Behavior Problems