A Comparative Analysis of Social Interactions Between Handicapped and Nonhandicapped Infants and Their Mothers

A growing body of literature indicates that infants who experience prenatal or birth complications may be at risk for developing maladaptive social interaction patterns. Although empirical evidence describing early development of interaction patterns between handicapped infants and their mothers is limited, there is reason to believe that the stress factors associated with the care of at-risk infants are exacerbated in the handicapped infant-mother relationship and might be associated with the concomitant development of atypical interaction patterns. While investigators have addressed themselves to collecting descriptive data with handicapped infant populations, these data have generally been accumulated from narrative accounts of mother-infant interactions or from quantitative assessments of either mother or infant alone. What has not been widely attempted is the systematic assessment of both mother and infant together--observing the affective quality of their interactions through the analysis of various communicative modalities used by both members of the dyad.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Reisman, John

• Education, Special

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8218547

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oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/68805