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Peer reviewedMcCollum, Jeanette A.; McBride, Susan L. – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1997
Examines the assumption that the same characteristics of interactions between infants and caregivers are meaningful and important across cultures, using literature from very different cultures to illustrate relationships among cultural values, views of good parenting, and parents' interactions with their infants. Findings have implications for the…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Caregivers, Cross Cultural Studies
Download full textKeefer, Constance H.; And Others – 1977
This paper describes a cross cultural study of face to face interactions between American and Gusii mothers and their infants. Observations of the Gusii people of Western Kenya suggest that the direct expression of intense affect is de-emphasized through an avoidance of direct face to face interactions. The present study investigated (1) how and…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Rating Scales, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
Blount, Ben G.; Padgug, Elise J. – 1976
Features of parental speech to young children was studied in four English-speaking and four Spanish-speaking families. Children ranged in age from 9 to 12 months for the English speakers and from 8 to 22 months for the Spanish speakers. Examination of the utterances led to the identification of 34 prosodic, paralinguistic, and interactional…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cultural Differences, English, Fathers
Guarneri, Gina, Ed.; And Others – 1988
This curriculum is for an intensive 5-day institute in team assessment of young children with disabilities. Each of the eight chapters includes text, training activities, and an annotated bibliography. Sample forms and evaluation guides are appended to relevant chapters. The introductory chapter presents an assessment philosophy and notes…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Cultural Differences, Disabilities, Evaluation Methods
Steward, Margaret S. – 1971
This project was designed to study the process of parents teaching preschool age children using a direct observational method. Six mothers and their own three-year-old sons from seven ethnic groups participated: middle-class Anglo, lower-class Anglo, English-speaking Mexican-American, bilingual Mexican-American; Spanish-Speaking Mexican-American,…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Attitudes, Behavior Patterns, Chinese
