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Cooper, Catherine R.; Goth, Patricia E. – 1978
This study was conducted to examine the developmental patterns in young children's ability to use others as a resource in problem-solving situations and to compare the roles that mothers and same-age peers play as resources for children in such situations. A total of 48 middle-class 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old children participated in the study with…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attention Control, Interaction Process Analysis, Mothers
Peer reviewedSeery, Mary Ellen; Kretschmer, Richard R., Jr.; Elgas, Peggy M. – Infant-Toddler Intervention: The Transdisciplinary Journal, 1998
Qualitative analysis of videotape recordings of seven mothers and their sons with autism (ages 2 and 3) found that mothers mostly engaged in verbal regard (conversation) and directive behaviors. Sons were able to give some form of regard 69% of the time, mostly in the form of active task participation rather than verbal or visual regard.…
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Control, Autism, Eye Contact
