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Infant-Peer Sociability: Its Structure, Content and Situational Variability.
Vandell, Deborah Lowe – 1979
In this study of early peer interaction, 32 first born infants (16 boys, 16 girls) were videotaped in pairs at 6, 9 and 12 months. Each 15 minute session consisted of Toys Present (TP) and Toys Absent(TA) conditions counterbalanced across dyads. Three questions were addressed: (1) Are infants as young as 6 months capable of interacting with a…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Infant Behavior, Infants, Interaction
Integrating Hearing and Deaf Preschoolers: An Attempt to Enhance Hearing Children's Interactions with Deaf Peers.
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Vandell, Deborah Lowe; And Others – Child Development, 1982
To modify hearing preschoolers' refusals to interact with profoundly deaf peers, a three-week training program was provided. Training for hearing children included discussions about the meaning of deafness, an opportunity to practice communication techniques, and free-play interactions with deaf children. Hearing children did not respond…
Descriptors: Deafness, Intervention, Mainstreaming, Peer Relationship
Peer Interaction in the First Year of Life: An Examination of Its Structure, Content, and Sensitivity to Toys.
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Vandell, Deborah Lowe; And Others – Child Development, 1980
Three questions are addressed: (1) Are infants as young as six months capable of interacting with a peer? (2) What type of social acts are used during these early encounters? and (3) Do toys facilitate the interactions? (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Infants, Interaction Process Analysis, Longitudinal Studies
Social Interaction in Hearing and Deaf Preschoolers: Successes and Failures in Initiations.
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Vandell, Deborah Lowe; George, Linda B. – Child Development, 1981
Dyadic free play of 32 preschool children (16 deaf and 16 hearing) was videotaped on two occasions; each child was observed once with a deaf partner, once with a hearing partner. Results are discussed in terms of the social interactions of hearing and deaf children, with particular attention to the characteristics of initiation attempts.…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Communication Skills, Deafness, Interaction Process Analysis
A Microanalysis of Toddlers' Social Interaction with Mothers and Fathers.
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Vandell, Deborah Lowe – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1979
Examines mother-infant and father-infant interaction over time at three different levels: dyadic, individual, and specific content. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Fathers, Infant Behavior, Infants, Interaction Process Analysis
Social Development in Infant Twins: Peer and Mother-Child Relationships.
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Vandell, Deborah Lowe; And Others – Child Development, 1988
Discusses observations of sets of infant twins, aged 6 to 24 months, as they interacted with one another and with an unfamiliar peer. Assesses quality of infant-mother attachment. Finds twins are more likely to react with one another than with a peer. Results are discussed in relation to early peer relationships and attachment. (Author/RWB)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Infant Behavior, Infants
A Longitudinal Study of Children with Day-Care Experiences of Varying Quality.
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Vandell, Deborah Lowe; And Others – Child Development, 1988
Twenty children were observed at age four during free play at good and poor quality day care centers and again at age eight in triadic play sessions. Significant continuity was found between the four-year-olds' behavior in the day care centers and the children's functioning at eight years. (RJC)
Descriptors: Child Development, Comparative Analysis, Day Care Centers, Educational Quality
Individual Differences in Early Social Interaction with Peers.
Vandell, Deborah Lowe; Mueller, Edward C. – 1978
In a study to assess young children's social interaction with peers, six male toddlers who were the only participants in a playgroup were observed in two situations: (1) a GROUP situation in which at least four of the boys were present and (2) a DYAD situation in which only two boys were present. Both types of observations were made at 16, 19, and…
Descriptors: Group Behavior, Group Structure, Individual Differences, Infant Behavior