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Direct linkJustine Hoch; Christina Hospodar; Gabriela Koch da Costa Aguiar Alves; Karen Adolph – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Independent locomotion is associated with a range of positive developmental outcomes, but unlike cognitive, linguistic, and social skills, acquiring motor skills requires infants to generate their own input for learning. We tested factors that shape infants' spontaneous locomotion by observing forty 12- to 22-month-olds (19 girls, 21 boys) during…
Descriptors: Infants, Physical Environment, Social Environment, Psychomotor Skills
Kuchirko, Yana; Bennet, Anna; Halim, May Ling; Costanzo, Philip; Ruble, Diane – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Most U.S. children grow up with siblings. Theory and prior work suggest that older siblings are important sources of gender-related information and socialization. However, few studies have investigated the patterns of these associations longitudinally across early childhood. The present study examines the influence of sibling presence and gender…
Descriptors: Siblings, Family Influence, Ethnic Diversity, Young Children
Download full textBrofman, Vera; Karpov, Yuriy V.; Rabinovitch, Inna – International Research in Early Childhood Education, 2020
The Vygotskian preschool education program (VPEP) is built around mediation in the context of preschool age-specific activities such as sociodramatic play, constructive play, listening and retelling fairy tales, playing with dollhouses, motor activities, and some others. We used the VPEP as part of the daily curriculum in two pre-K classes at PS…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Play, Fairy Tales, Educational Philosophy
Yana A. Kuchirko; Jacob L. Schatz; Katelyn K. Fletcher; Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda – Grantee Submission, 2020
We examined the functions of mothers' speech to infants during two tasks--book-sharing and bead-stringing--in low-income, ethnically diverse families. Mexican, Dominican, and African American mothers and their infants were video-recorded sharing wordless books and toy beads in the home when infants were 1:2 and 2:0. Mothers' utterances were…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Interpersonal Communication, Speech Communication
Yana A. Kuchirko; Jacob L. Schatz; Katelyn K. Fletcher; Catherine S. Tamis-Lemonda – Journal of Child Language, 2020
We examined the functions of mothers' speech to infants during two tasks -- book-sharing and bead-stringing -- in low-income, ethnically diverse families. Mexican, Dominican, and African American mothers and their infants were video-recorded sharing wordless books and toy beads in the home when infants were aged 1;2 and 2;0. Mothers' utterances…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Interpersonal Communication, Speech Communication
Doering, Elena; Schluter, Kevin; von Suchodoletz, Antje – Journal of Child Language, 2020
Previous research indicates that features of speech during mother-toddler interactions are dependent on the situational context. In this study, we explored language samples of 69 mother-toddler dyads collected during standardized toy play and book-reading situations across two countries, Germany and the United States (US). The results showed that…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Toddlers, Story Reading
