Two studies were conducted to better understand how children with intellectual disabilities (ID) empathize with the feelings of others during social interactions. The first study tested hypotheses of developmental delay or difference regarding empathy in 79 children with ID by comparing them with typicall...
This important question from clinical practice will be addressed by examining new evidence from the on-going Learning to Talk project in New Zealand, a longitudinal study of children with and without early language delay. Data will be presented using a framework originally developed for diagnostic ...
from the human capital theory, cultural capital theory and social capital theory and so on. The human capital theory claims that education is an important human capital investment, where the “cost-benefit” framework is the primary principles for families to make ...
knowledge regarding VA technology (focusing here on parental interventions), and of how children’s knowledge and understanding affects their communicative behavior towards VAs (focusing here on telling a secret to the VA), we conducted a longitudinal field study with 16 families (N=20 children). ...
When students learn skills to solve problems by teaching others, they often need to receive scaffolding to benefit from learning by teaching. To facilitate learning by teaching (aka tutor learning), two types of scaffolding have been commonly studied—the scaffolding on how to teach (to induce ap...
So, how then does an experimenter design their studies so as to be inclusive of SABV without doubling their experimental numbers? To start, knowing the literature as to reported sex differences can be very helpful in how to best go about including both sexes in your study or the appropriate...
Children benefit when they and their parent establish a positive pattern of relating while reading, as revealed by a study in which 18- to 22-month-old children were observed while engaged in book reading [46]. Further, children with longer periods of joint attention at 18 months were found...
There is substantial evidence that learning and using multiple languages modulates selective attention in children. The current study investigated the mechanisms that drive this modification. Specifically, we asked whether the need for constant managemen
The matter of raising and educating deaf children has been caught up in percepts of development that are persistently inaccurate and at odds with scientific research. These percepts have negatively impacted the health and quality of life of deaf children
”Secondary, School Lead (Woodrow, Fairbrother, Breheny, et al.,2022). Ethical concerns were expressed in 5 of the studies, with staff raising issues of confidentiality and risk of labelling“you’ve got the problem I think of children labelling themselves or thinking they’ve got a mental ...