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LOW-INCOME, MINORITY FATHERS’ CONTROL STRATEGIES AND THEIR CHILDREN'S REGULATORY SKILLS
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)
The current study explored the bidirectional association of children’s individual characteristics, fathers’ control strategies at 24 months,
and children’s regulatory skills at prekindergarten (pre-K). Using a sample of ...
How Does Schooling Influence Maternal Health Practices? Evidence from Nepal
(University of Chicago Press, 2005)
Does linguistic input play the same role in language learning for children with and without early brain injury?
(American Psychological Association (APA), 2009)
Children with unilateral pre- or perinatal brain injury (BI) show remarkable plasticity for language
learning. Previous work highlights the important role that lesion characteristics play in explaining
individual variation ...
Learning words by hand: Gesture's role in predicting vocabulary development
(2008)
Children vary widely in how quickly their vocabularies grow. Can looking at
early gesture use in children and parents help us predict this variability? We
videotaped 53 English-speaking parent-child dyads in their homes ...
The Pace of Vocabulary Growth Helps Predict Later Vocabulary Skill
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)
Children vary widely in the rate at which they acquire words—some start slow and speed up, others start fast
and continue at a steady pace. Do early developmental variations of this sort help predict vocabulary skill ...
Parental goals and talk with toddlers
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
Myriad studies support a relation between parental beliefs and
behaviours. This study adds to the literature by focusing on the
specific relationship between parental goals and their communication
with toddlers. Do ...
Father Input and Child Vocabulary Development: The Importance of Wh Questions and Clarification Requests
(Thieme Publishing Group, 2013)
Individual differences in children’s language skills have been
shown to stem in part from variations in the quantity and quality of parent
speech input. However, most research focuses on mothers’ input whereas
less is ...
Decontextualized Language Input and Preschoolers' Vocabulary Development
(Thieme Publishing Group, 2013)
This article discusses the importance of using decontextualized
language, or language that is removed from the here and now including
pretend, narrative, and explanatory talk, with preschool children. The
literature on ...
What counts in the development of young children's number knowledge?
(American Psychological Association (APA), 2010)
Prior studies indicate that children vary widely in their mathematical knowledge by the time they enter preschool and that this variation predicts levels of achievement in elementary school. In a longitudinal study
of a ...