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Social-Emotional Functioning and Quality of Life in Language Disorders: A Systematic Review of Development from Childhood to Adolescence
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Mélanie van Barreveld; Annette Scheper; Constance Vissers; Iris Duinmeijer; Britt Hakvoort – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2025
Background: It is well-established that children and adolescents with developmental language disorder (DLD) have social-emotional difficulties. This is reflected in their behaviour, for instance, by (social) withdrawal, hyperactivity or difficulty with peer relations. Children with DLD are also known to have poorer quality of life (QoL). This is…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Quality of Life, Language Impairments, Research Reports
Emergence of Compulsive Behavior and Tantrums in Children with Prader-Willi Syndrome.
Dimitropoulos, A.; Feurer, I. D.; Butler, M. G.; Thompson, T. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2001
Analysis of questionnaires completed by parents of young children with either Prader-Willi syndrome (N=84), Down syndrome (N=56), or typically developing (N=86), found children with Prader-Willi exhibited more compulsions, skin-picking, and tantrums than did the other groups. Discriminant analysis identified two functions (developmental milestones…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Developmental Stages, Downs Syndrome
Children's Reasoning about the Causes of Human Behavior.
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Miller, Patricia H. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1985
Examined the ability of three-year-olds, four-year-olds, kindergartners, and second graders to predict how certain internal and external conditions affect behavior. In two studies, a forced-choice procedure revealed that even the youngest group could predict the effect of various causes, while a third study examined more complex types of causal…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Development
Fantasy Play and Related Cognitive Development in 2- to 6-Year-Olds.
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Cole, Diane; LaVoie, Joseph C. – Developmental Psychology, 1985
Developmental changes in specific types of fantasy play and the relation of role taking, egocentrism, and receptive vocabulary were examined in two- to six-year-olds. Both frequency and duration of material and ideational fantasy play increased with age, but play patterns differed. Data suggest developmental progression from object to person…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Developmental Stages, Early Childhood Education
A Comparison of Fathers' and Mothers' Speech Patterns When Communicating with Three, Four, and Five-Year-Old Children.
Kurth, Ruth Justine; Kurth, Lila Mae – 1986
A study compared mothers' and fathers' speech patterns when speaking to preschool children, particularly utterance length, sentence types, and word frequencies. All of the children attended a nursery school with a student population of 136 in a large urban area in the Southwest. Volunteer subjects, 28 mothers and 28 fathers of 28 children who…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Communication Research, Developmental Stages, Fathers
Children's Impressions of Other Persons: The Effects of Temporal Separation of Behavioral Information.
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Rholes, William S.; Ruble, Diane N. – Child Development, 1986
Examines the implications of temporal separation for children's developmental differences in inferences drawn about an individual's characteristics after observing multiple instances of that individual's behavior. Also tests two competing hypotheses about how young children process information separated in time. (HOD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Development