The authors provide a comprehensive and practical guide to early childhood mathematics, blending research, practice, and inspiration into a resource that teachers can immediately use. Through anecdotes, illustrative videos with a comprehensive index, and detailed assessment protocols, they show how learning trajectories and formative assessment…

Choice-making is an important instructional strategy for children of any age who are deafblind. Many children and youth who are deafblind are offered opportunities to participate in choice-making at school and at home, but professionals and parents sometimes worry about the authenticity of the choice-making process and wonder if the child is…

This article explores immersive learning experiences for young learners in a planetarium setting. These experiences open new learning possibilities and ignite children's inquiry and imagination. The authors describe a naturalistic observational study that examines two immersive planetarium programs for young children. Data was collected as…

Parents of autistic children involved in the Relationship Development Intervention (RDI) receive support and guidance in developing the parent-child relationship and play the key role in successfully delivering this therapeutic intervention. Despite there being emerging evidence that supports RDI's effectiveness at improving child outcomes, little…

This paper describes a research collaboration with Humber Museums Partnership, which explored family museum visiting and early language. Drawing from ethnographic observations and continuous audio recordings, this article examines how very young children make sense in museum spaces. We activate Deleuze and Guattari's concept of the refrain…

The purpose of this study was to use a direct behavioral observation coding system to quantify and categorize children's mands and teachers' contingent responses in three types of typically occurring preschool classroom activities. Children's mands were categorized based on their presumed function, and teachers' responses were coded based on…

Purpose: This study explores whether and how balance of multilingual exposure (BME) impacts gesture comprehension in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Method: Eighty-six autistic children (aged 4-12 years) varying in their balance of exposure to different languages completed a gamified task assessing the comprehension of deictic,…

Purpose: Children with hearing loss show deficits in sequential learning, a form of procedural memory, and often perform poorly on verbal serial recall, a form of declarative memory. The current study examines sequential learning and serial recall in pediatric cochlear implant (CI) users with young ages of implantation. Additionally, it…

The landmark Salamanca Statement propelled global efforts to replace segregated special educational practices with inclusion models in mainstream schools. Questions persist, however, concerning the academic effectiveness and socioemotional impact on children and their families. Yet, few qualitative studies probe these concerns. Using qualitative…

Purpose: This study aims to support teachers introducing books depicting minoritized religious cultural events, holidays and traditions in their classrooms using a four-part interpretive framework. Design/methodology/approach: This study introduces and enacts a lived religion approach for interpreting realistic fictional children's picturebooks…

Dysgraphia is a learning disability that impairs children's written expression, mainly handwriting but also coherence at the same time. This research work was conducted to know the effectiveness of Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT)-based intervention, in assisting children with dysgraphia to enhance their writing skills. The…

Purpose: This study aims to explore how multicultural picturebooks portray transnational parent knowledge and, crucially, in what ways they challenge dominant, often simplified, narratives of migration through depictions of parental agency. Design/methodology/approach: Using a critical narrative review of ten purposefully selected picturebooks,…

Animated films have an undeniable place in children's entertainment culture. The worldwide box office revenues indicate that these films reached many children in cinemas and were viewed on televisions by almost all children. The extent to which children can make sense of such content is still a question mark in minds. This study aims to…

The individual's learning process begins with birth and continues with discoveries in the living spaces. The curiosity-driven learning process is the basis of cognitive development, and nowadays, much research is being done to understand this development field. Determining the focal point of research on cognitive development in preschool in Turkey…

The purpose of this essay is to propose a manifesto of young children's rights in the early childhood classroom based on Vivian Paley's many formal classroom investigations into children's thinking, learning, and social emotional development. Analysis establishes, first, Paley's license to speak for young children by positioning her in the only…