Background/Purpose: There has been growing attention to studying emotion development in young children to promote academic success (Eisenberg et al., 2005), yet little is known about emotion language skills in bilingual children learning two languages and growing up in two cultural contexts (home and school). Emotion language skills, including our…

Researchers have recognized that quality early education programs yield positive long-term benefits, but have failed to examine the relationships between these teacher characteristics and teacher-child interactions. This quantitative study was nonexperimental with data gathered through naturalistic observation. The extent to which years of early…

Peer victimization is a serious social problem that can negatively affect a child's psychosocial development and school adjustment, and may have lasting effects for victims. Previous studies on peer victimization have suggested that children with disabilities (CWD) are likely to be more frequent targets of peer victimization. This longitudinal…