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Direct linkFrédéric Thériault-Couture; Célia Matte-Gagné; Annie Bernier – Developmental Science, 2025
Executive functions (EFs) emerge in the first years of life and are essential for many areas of child development. However, intraindividual developmental trajectories of EF during toddlerhood and their associations with ongoing development of language skills remain poorly understood. The present three-wave study examined these trajectories and…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Toddlers, Child Development, Language Acquisition
Sophie Carruthers; Tony Charman; Kathy Leadbitter; Ceri Ellis; Lauren Taylor; Heather Moore; Carol Taylor; Kirsty James; Matea Balabanovska; Sophie Langhorne; Catherine Aldred; Vicky Slonims; Vicki Grahame; Patricia Howlin; Helen McConachie; Jeremy Parr; Richard Emsley; Ann Le Couteur; Jonathan Green; Andrew Pickles; PACT-G Trial Group – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
We investigated autistic children's generalisation of social communication over time across three settings during a play-based assessment with different adults and explore the potential moderating effects on generalisation of age, nonverbal IQ and level of restricted and repetitive behaviours. The social communication abilities of 248 autistic…
Descriptors: Generalization, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Competence, Communication Skills
Ashley Ransom; Kirsten H. Blakey; Samuel Ronfard – Child Development, 2025
Do children and adults recognize the value of disagreement for learning? Across two preregistered studies (data collected 2023), 4- to 8-year-old children (N = 200, 101 females, mixed ethnicities) and adults (N = 200, 99 females, mixed ethnicities) were asked whether a protagonist would learn more by talking to someone who agrees or disagrees with…
Descriptors: Childrens Attitudes, Child Development, Young Children, Persuasive Discourse
Anna Sparrman – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2025
This article examines how we as researchers in a constantly changing world can challenge ourselves by 'unlearning' what we know, and perhaps take for granted, about children. What happens, for example, to the notion of the child in a world of transformation? To address these questions, I argue that we need to explore the act of unlearning both…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Learning Theories, Child Development, Personal Autonomy
Jacqueline Lim; Patricia McCabe; Alison Purcell – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: Dynamic Systems Theory (DST) has been used as a foundational lens through which to observe and understand child development and disorders. Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a motor planning speech disorder that can be difficult to treat. This tutorial outlines how a DST framework can be used to understand the therapy process for…
Descriptors: Children, Speech Therapy, Speech Impairments, Systems Approach
Tamás Káldi; Ágnes Szollosi; Mihály Racsmány – Child Development, 2025
Retrieval practice is known to enhance long-term memory retention, a phenomenon termed as retrieval practice effect. Two experiments (NWhite = 202), showed that the effect was present in preschool age (5-6 years) and had a boundary condition, namely, amount of initial learning. Specifically, there was a considerable effect only when children…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Recall (Psychology), Retention (Psychology)
Carlos Montoya-Fernández; Luisa Losada-Puente; Isabel María Gómez-Barreto; Pedro Gil-Madrona – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2024
This systematic review aims to identify the dimensions operationalized in different instruments that assess the developmental domains in Early Childhood Education through play. Research between 2015 and 2021 that dealt with quantitative developmental assessment instruments from 2 to 7 years of age were included. Instruments without psychometric…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Play, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Barbara A. Morrongiello; Amanda Cox; Lindsay Bryant – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2024
Unintentional injury represents a significant health threat to children, and infancy marks a particularly vulnerable stage. This multi-method study (questionnaire, diary) measured parents' (N = 143) use of three popular home-safety practices (teaching about safety, environment modification to reduce access to hazards, supervision) and child injury…
Descriptors: Injuries, Prevention, Infants, Safety
Chelsea T. Morris – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2024
This case study is based on a program evaluation of a professional certificate program that trains early childhood care and education providers to build and support young children's emotional literacy. The research project described in the case study will address approaches to methodological combination, justifying research design and changes to…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Teacher Certification, Early Childhood Teachers, Early Childhood Education
Download full textVasiliki Vasilaki – Online Submission, 2024
The current study explores the impact of visual arts education on early childhood, highlighting its role in enhancing creativity, imagination, and emotional expression in pre-school children. It explores the perspectives of pre-school teachers on the importance of visual arts in children's development and the challenges they face when integrating…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Visual Arts, Art Education, Educational Policy
Sara E. Schroer; Ryan E. Peters; Chen Yu – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Real-time attention coordination in parent-toddler dyads is often studied in tightly controlled laboratory settings. These studies have demonstrated the importance of joint attention in scaffolding the development of attention and the types of dyadic behaviors that support early language learning. Little is known about how often these behaviors…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Measurement Techniques, Toddlers, Child Development
Akar, Tuba; Aksoy, Ayse Belgin – Psycho-Educational Research Reviews, 2021
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…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Methodology, Cognitive Development, Young Children
Hauser, Marc D. – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2021
For educators to help children exposed to adverse life experiences, it is necessary to understand how adversity impacts different mechanisms of learning, emotion, and planning as these capacities underpin success in schools and beyond. The goal of this paper is to review essential findings on how early life adversity transforms the brain which, in…
Descriptors: Child Development, Trauma, Brain, Experience
Newman, Stephen; Latifi, Ashkan – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2021
The work of Vygotsky is widely used in teacher education and other education-related literature, in discussion of sociocultural perspectives, and in relation to themes such as second language acquisition, the teaching of mathematics, and approaches to teaching and learning. Much of this work gives the impression that Vygotsky's work is…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Sociocultural Patterns, Teacher Education Programs, Child Development
Klevan, Sarah; Daniel, Julia; Fehrer, Kendra; Maier, Anna – Learning Policy Institute, 2023
Across the United States, policymakers, educators, and community members increasingly support community schools as a method of supporting whole child outcomes. Oakland Unified School District (Oakland Unified) in California has made whole child education central to its community schools initiative. Oakland Unified's community schools provide a…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Holistic Approach, Educational Change, Child Development
