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Download full textWeir, Mary Knox
This manual describes the Caregiver Language Observation Instrument, a device useful for observing the language behavior of caregivers in infant day care settings. Eleven categories of language behavior are recorded: approval, disapproval, cautioning, soothing, talking to, questioning, labeling, elaborating, singing, directing, and imitating. The…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Day Care, Environment, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedSquires, Jane; Bricker, Diane – Journal of Early Intervention, 1991
This study evaluated the effects of completing infant development questionnaires on mothers whose ability to provide an appropriate caregiving environment for their infants was suspect. The 18 mothers who completed the questionnaire were found to be more accurate observers of their infants than 18 control mothers who had not completed the…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Development, Child Rearing, Evaluation Methods
