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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"toddlerhood"”.
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Multisensory Integration in Early Toddlerhood: Interrelationships with Context, SES and Expressive Vocabulary
… ultimately learn to reproduce language by late toddlerhood. These language skills form a foundation for learning and achievement later in life, and there is documented evidence that language skills vary by experiences related to socioeconomic status (SES). Language disparities can be measured …
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Does Screen Time Help or Hinder Toddlers' Development of Prosocial Behaviour?
… amongst parents, the impacts of screen use in toddlerhood and early childhood are not well studied. In particular, although some developmental outcomes (i.e., sleep and aggression in older children) have been considered in relation to screen time, much less is known about how screen time might …
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Context Clues: Determinants of Parental Sensitivity and Early Childhood Development
… brings additional benefits as children enter toddlerhood and the preschool years. Integrating these two constructs, Prime et al. (2015) have called for research into parents’ Cognitive Sensitivity (CS), defined as the extent to which parents take their children’s knowledge and cognitive …
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The Direct and Interactive Effects of Neighborhood Risk and Harsh Parenting on Childhood Externalizing and Internalizing Behavior
… in externalizing and internalizing behavior in toddlerhood. The study included 55 mothers and their children; families completed in-home assessments when children were 2 and 3 years of age. Mothers' reports were used to measure neighborhood disadvantage and children's problem behaviors. Observer …
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Fine-Grained Analyses of Multisensory Integration and Emerging Language in 24-Month-Olds
… integration and language in infancy and toddlerhood. For example, Bruce et al. (2022) found that performance on the MAAP in social conditions was predictive of vocabulary in 24-month-olds monolingual English learners. However, it was the collapsed looking-time data for each condition …
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Effects of musculoskeletal dysfunction in excessive crying syndromes of infancy.
… effects of chiropractic manual therapy into toddlerhood. Each of these studies was novel in the field and the first of its kind. Summary of Results: The studies in this thesis added to the body of knowledge through providing unique evidence for the following: (1) parents are willing to take …
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Mothers' Communication Style and the Development of Child Compliance and Noncompliance During the Third Year of Life
… is an important developmental achievement during toddlerhood. Although more responsive parenting often is associated with increases in children's compliance during the toddler years, the role of mothers' and toddlers' language abilities on change in compliance has largely been ignored. The current …
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The Maternal Force Awakens Emerging Fear Reactivity and Regulation: Preliminary Results from the Baby JEDI Study
… reactivity and regulation across infancy and toddlerhood both unconditionally and within the contexts of maternal parenting and personality functioning. Infants and mothers were assessed when infants were 10-months (n = 48), 14-months (n = 42), and 18-months (n = 34) old. At each age, infant …
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Early Androgen Exposure, Gender, and Disorder-Relevant Traits
… size (how many words a child can say) during toddlerhood. Notably, males typically have a smaller expressive vocabulary than do females during toddlerhood and a small expressive vocabulary is predictive of subsequent language difficulties, such as dyslexia and stuttering, which are more common …
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Sensory Features in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review of Measurement Quality and Empirical Investigation of Sensory Responsivity in Children at High and Low Familial Risk for Autism
… behavior and adaptive behavior later in toddlerhood. Compared to children without ASD, children with ASD tend to demonstrate more early sensory responsivity behaviors that increase in a curvilinear relation to chronological age with specific trajectory differences across responsivity …
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Temperament, parenting, and the development of childhood obesity
… trajectories of overweight and obesity from toddlerhood into childhood and (b) to investigate the associations between these trajectories and children’s temperaments, their parents’ parenting practices and their interactions. Potentially important familial characteristics (i.e., the parents’ …
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Child-Led Emotion Regulation Behaviours during Toddler Vaccinations: Building Understanding through a Dyadic Lens
… on their caregivers for regulating distress, in toddlerhood, children begin to build a repertoire of their own emotion regulation (ER) skills to modulate their distress. The current dissertation consists of three studies to better understand toddler-led ER during vaccination. Study 1 is a …
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Understanding Patterns of Caregiver-Toddler Biological Attunement in a Distress Context
… attunement within distress contexts in toddlerhood. Study 1 is a published systematic review (Di Lorenzo et al., 2021) that synthesizes the direction and magnitude of the relations between caregiver and young child (0 to 3 years of age) biological outcomes according to different …
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Parental Reports of the Development of Autism in Their Children: The Relevance of Regression, Comorbidity, and Genetics in the Detection ofEarly Characteristics
… of the disorder evident during infancy and toddlerhood aids efforts to screen for such symptoms, which may lead to earlier and more accurate diagnoses; however, it is unclear to what extent certain factors encourage or impede early detection. Because parents are responsible for making …
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Children's Family Experiences and Executive Function Across the Transition to School
… children’s interactions with parents in both toddlerhood and the early school years. Using multiple measures and longitudinal structural equation modelling, this thesis highlights the importance of considering transactional child effects and temporal dynamics in both theory and practice.
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Multisensory Integration in Social and Nonsocial Events and Emerging Language in Toddlers
Multisensory integration enables young children to combine information across their senses to create rich, coordinated perceptual experiences. Events with high intersensory redundancy across the senses provide salient experiences which aid in the integration process and facilitate perceptual …
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Does Temperament Differentially Influence Study Completion Rates for 18 and 24-Month-Olds Participating in a Remote Study?
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, many researchers turned to remote testing to continue to collect data. This shift provided new insights and exciting opportunities for researchers, including the ability to gain access to larger demographic pools. However, remote work has come with unique challenges. …
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The impact of early life dietary patterns on weight status, fecal microbiota and volatile fatty acid composition in 2-year-old children enrolled in the STRONG Kids 2 cohort
… fecal microbiota in childhood are established in toddlerhood as well as metagenomics studies to reach greater species level resolution in this age group.
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Microbial relationships between breastfeeding mothers and infants and response to maternal probiotic intervention
… risk for a number of chronic diseases in toddlerhood and childhood. Human milk (HM) contains a number of bioactive components that support microbial development. Microbes in HM provide a continuous source of commensal bacteria to the infant, and anti-inflammatory cytokines in HM promote …