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Peer reviewedCuster, Wendy L. – Child Development, 1996
Examined the nature of three- and four-year-olds' understanding of various mental representations, using story protagonists who held mental representations (beliefs, pretenses, and memories) that contradicted reality. Results suggest that young children conceptualize pretense as involving mental representations and that they have more difficulty…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cognitive Processes, Memory, Toddlers
Direct linkMarkman, Ellen M.; Wasow, Judith L.; Hansen, Mikkel B. – Cognitive Psychology, 2003
A critical question about early word learning is whether word learning constraints such as mutual exclusivity exist and foster early language acquisition. It is well established that children will map a novel label to a novel rather than a familiar object. Evidence for the role of mutual exclusivity in such indirect word learning has been…
Descriptors: Novels, Language Acquisition, Toddlers, Pragmatics
Dittmar, Miriam; Abbot-Smith, Kirsten; Lieven, Elena; Tomasello, Michael – Developmental Science, 2008
Using a preferential looking methodology with novel verbs, Gertner, Fisher and Eisengart (2006 ) found that 21-month-old English children seemed to understand the syntactic marking of transitive word order in an abstract, verb-general way. In the current study we tested whether young German children of this same age have this same understanding.…
Descriptors: Sentences, Verbs, Nouns, Child Development
Hart, Carolyn – Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 2008
This paper is concerned with the processes, both psychoanalytic and neuroscientific, involved in the undoing of dissociation in a 3-year-old, who was seen weekly over a nine month period. A neuroscientific and psychoanalytic developmental framework is used to follow a sequence of phenomena that emerged over the duration of relatively brief once…
Descriptors: Identification, Counselor Client Relationship, Psychotherapy, Empathy
Yoshikawa, Hirokazu; Godfrey, Erin B.; Rivera, Ann C. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2008
Few studies have examined how experiences associated with being an undocumented immigrant parent affects children's development. In this article, the authors apply social exclusion theory to examine how access to institutional resources that require identification may matter for parents and children in immigrant families. As hypothesized, groups…
Descriptors: Social Isolation, Identification (Psychology), Undocumented Immigrants, Cognitive Development
Ganea, Patricia A.; Pickard, Megan Bloom; DeLoache, Judy S. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2008
Picture book reading is a very common form of interaction between parents and very young children. Here we explore to what extent young children transfer novel information between picture books and the real world. We report that 15- and 18-month-olds can extend newly learned labels both from pictures to objects and from objects to pictures.…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Cartoons, Young Children, Reader Text Relationship
Kannass, Kathleen N.; Oakes, Lisa M. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2008
We investigated longitudinally the development of attention in two free-play tasks and the relation between attention in those tasks and language ability in toddlerhood. We observed developmental differences in attention from 9 and 31 months both as children investigated a single object and as they investigated multiple objects. Attention in these…
Descriptors: Infants, Language Aptitude, Familiarity, Attention
Favez, N.; Reicherts, M. – Early Child Development and Care, 2008
The aim of this research is to assess the relative influence of mothers' coping strategies in everyday life and mothers' specific coping acts on toddlers' adjustment behavior to pain and distress during a routine immunization. The population is 41 mothers with toddlers (23 girls, 18 boys; mean age, 22.7 months) undergoing a routine immunization in…
Descriptors: Mothers, Toddlers, Pediatrics, Questionnaires
McHenry, Jolie D.; Buerk, Kathy J. – Young Children, 2008
Children observe, listen, feel, taste, and take apart while exploring everything in their environment. Teachers can cultivate nature investigations with very young children by offering infants natural objects they can explore and investigate. When adults introduce nature in the earliest stages of development, children will be open to new ideas and…
Descriptors: Play, Investigations, Infants, Physical Environment
Rozendaal, Margot Isabella; Baker, Anne Edith – Journal of Child Language, 2008
The acquisition of reference involves both morphosyntax and pragmatics. This study investigates whether Dutch, English and French two- to three-year-old children differentiate in their use of determiners between non-specific/specific reference, newness/givenness in discourse and mutual/no mutual knowledge between interlocutors. A brief analysis of…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Discourse Analysis, French, Indo European Languages
Taylor, Susan B. – Zero to Three, 2008
A significant percentage of all child care programs are offered through religious organizations. This article describes the efforts of one church located in an impoverished section of Washington, DC, to respond to the needs of low-income families with infants and toddlers. The St. Philip's Child Development Center of Anacostia serves the community…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Infants, Religious Organizations, Child Development Centers
Laible, Deborah; Panfile, Tia; Makariev, Drika – Child Development, 2008
The goal of this study was to examine the links among attachment, child temperament, and the quality and frequency of mother-toddler conflict. Sixty-four mothers and children took part in a series of laboratory tasks when the child was 30 months of age and an audio-recorded home observation when the child was 36 months of age. All episodes of…
Descriptors: Mothers, Conflict, Toddlers, Parent Child Relationship
Taumoepeau, Mele; Ruffman, Ted – Child Development, 2008
This continuation of a previous study (Taumoepeau & Ruffman, 2006) examined the longitudinal relation between maternal mental state talk to 15- and 24-month-olds and their later mental state language and emotion understanding (N = 74). The previous study found that maternal talk about the child's desires to 15-month-old children uniquely predicted…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Longitudinal Studies
Kleinman, Jamie M.; Robins, Diana L.; Ventola, Pamela E.; Pandey, Juhi; Boorstein, Hilary C.; Esser, Emma L.; Wilson, Leandra B.; Rosenthal, Michael A.; Sutera, Saasha; Verbalis, Alyssa D.; Barton, Marianne; Hodgson, Sarah; Green, James; Dumont-Mathieu, Thyde; Volkmar, Fred; Chawarska, Katarzyna; Klin, Ami; Fein, Deborah – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2008
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) often go undetected in toddlers. The Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (M-CHAT) was used to screen 3,793 children aged 16-30 months from low- and high-risk sources; screen positive cases were diagnostically evaluated. Re-screening was performed on 1,416 children aged 42-54 months. Time1 Positive Predictive…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Autism, Toddlers, Children
Download full textCenter for the Study of Social Policy, 2009
In FY 2009, the Children's Bureau funded the Center for the Study of Social Policy, in partnership with ZERO TO THREE: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families, and the National Alliance of Children's Trust and Prevention Funds, to create a National Quality Improvement Center on Early Childhood (QIC-EC) focused on child maltreatment…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Prevention, Stakeholders, Technical Assistance
