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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Toy Play"”.
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A descriptive and experimental evaluation of preschooler aggressive toy play
Aggressive toy play is commonly observed in early childhood classrooms, yet strategies to address this problem behavior have not been articulated in the research literature. In Study 1, we examined the relation between aggressive play and preference for three toy types: (a) structured "aggressive" …
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Parental Responsiveness and Sensory Stimulation in Social Toy Play with Infants
… and Sensory Stimulation in Social and Toy Play with Infants Chairperson: Lynne Sanford Koester, Ph.D. The period from birth to three years of age is characterized by rapid development in emotional, social, cognitive, and physical domains. Positive play interactions with responsive …
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Parental Responsiveness and Sensory Stimulation in Social Toy Play with Infants
… and Sensory Stimulation in Social and Toy Play with Infants Chairperson: Lynne Sanford Koester, Ph.D. The period from birth to three years of age is characterized by rapid development in emotional, social, cognitive, and physical domains. Positive play interactions with responsive …
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Embedding Sensory Preferences into Toys to Enhance Toy Play in Toddlers with Disabilities
Playing with toys as a means of environmental engagement has long been considered important in early child development (Messer, Rachford, McCarthy, & Yarrow, 1987; Wolery & Werts, 1994). However, children with highly significant disabilities often engage in toy play less frequently than their peers …
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The Effects of a Lag 5 Schedule of Reinforcement on Toy Play Response Variability
… of problem solving and adaptive skills. Rigid toy play is a common symptom of autism spectrum disorder and shows a larger lack of overall response variability. A lag schedule of reinforcement requires the organism to vary their current response from previous responses in order to receive …
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The Effect of a Lag Schedule of Reinforcement on Variability in Toy Play in Children with Autism
Variability is a dimension of behavior that is altered and learned through reinforcement contingencies (Neuringer, 2002). The lag schedule of reinforcement is one way to establish contingencies in order to increase variability in block formations built by children diagnosed with autism. Napolitano, …
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Adult's Perceptions of Children's Aggressive Play with Advertised and Non-Advertised Toys.
… examined adults’ perceptions of aggression in toys and toy commercials targeted toward young boys. The subjects, 262 undergraduate psychology students, completed the Buss/Perry Aggression Questionnaire and rated either a videotape of 10 boy-oriented toy commercials or slides of 10 …
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A Study of Visual Attention on Gestures and Motion during Infancy
… the motions from videos of child-parent toy play. We have focused primarily on the third perspective videos. The approach first extracts dense trajectories from these videos, and then uses unsupervised clustering to group the trajectories into multiple groups. These groups are then …
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Capturing and Maintaining Deaf Toddler Gaze in Pretend Play: A Comparison of Dyads With Deaf and Hearing Mothers
… of behaviors related to joint attention during toy play in eight deaf mother-deaf toddler and eight hearing mother-deaf toddler dyads was conducted. The gaze patterns of the 18- to 28-month-old toddlers and selected aspects of maternal communicative behavior were analyzed to determine the …
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Looking Patterns of Mothers With Handicapped and Nonhandicapped Babies in Play and Instructional Interactions (Parent/infant Interaction, Maternal Gaze)
… and four boys). Each dyad was videotaped in a toy play, no instruction, and a toy play, instruction situation, within a week of each six-month birthday. Each videotaped situation was coded continuously for three consecutive minutes, with behavioral categories being: look at partner's face, look …
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A Measurement System for Monitoring Play in Typically Developing Children and Children with Autism
… measurement system was developed to monitor play in children with autism and typically developing children. The study was conducted in a preschool operated in conjunction with a center-based program for children with autism. The development of the measurement system was based on observations …
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Teaching a child with autism to imitate in natural contexts using video modeling
… objects) in natural contexts (i.e., songs and toy play activities). A general case approach was used to examine the instructional universe of common preschool songs in order to select the exemplars that were most likely to facilitate generalization. In addition to video modeling, additive …
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Adult Characteristics Associated With Gender-Typed Toy Ratings
The toys with which children play shape their development in several domains (Trawick-Smith, Russell, & Swaminathan, 2011). Exclusive or primary play with gender-typed toys may limit children's development, because toys considered appropriate for boys, girls, or both have different characteristics …
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ATTENDING TO LEARN WHILE LEARNING TO ATTEND: RECIPROCAL RELATIONS BETWEEN INFANT ATTENTION AND CONTINGENT CONTINGENT INTERACTIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
… Social contingency was assessed during toy play with a caregiver at 6 months and 12 months using fluency and connectedness. Child language was measured via caregiver-report and direct assessment at 18 months. Results indicated that attention shifting related more strongly to contingency …
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ENVIRONMENTAL CATALYSTS AND OROFACIAL KINEMATICS OF EMERGENT CANONICAL SYLLABLES
… the first attempt to determine the effect of play environment on infants' rate of vocalization and jaw movement. Four play conditions were compared: watching videos, social interaction with an adult, playing alone with small toys, and playing alone with large toys. The fewest vocalizations and …
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Sex differences in 12, 18 and 24-old-month infants' preference for colour, toys and shape
… boys' and girls' preferences for sex-typed toys during infancy. Toy preferences have been explained using biological, social and cognitive theories. More recently, focus has turned towards the low-level properties of toys that boys and girls find attractive. The present study was designed to …