Parents of children with developmental disabilities (DD) are at increased risk of experiencing psychological stress compared to other parents. Children's high levels of internalizing and externalizing problems have been found to contribute to this elevated level of stress. Few studies have considered the reverse direction of effects, however, in families where a child has a DD. The present stud...

Children with developmental delay are at increased risk for behaviour problems, but little is known about risk and resilience factors. Previous research has established links between maternal sensitivity and behaviour problems in typically developing children, but no studies have examined maternal sensitivity in the development of behaviour problems in children with developmental delay. In this...

We observed mother-child interactions, at baseline, in 136 families of 7-10-year-old boys with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) who were part of a large clinical trial, the Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with ADHD. Independent coders rated stylistic aspects of maternal behavior and factor analyses revealed a responsiveness factor that included overall responsiveness and s...

This paper presents a localist multimodal neural network that uses Hebbian learning to acquire one-word child language from child directed speech (CDS) comprising multiword utterances and queries in addition to one-word utterances. The model implements cross-situational learning between linguistic words used in child directed speech, the accompanying perceptual entities, conceptual relations an...

OBJECTIVE Children experience distress after surgery. Associations exist between parent reassurance (e.g., "It's OK") and child distress, but little is known about the causal direction of these interactions. This study examined sequential relations between mothers' and fathers' reassurance and children's distress. METHODS 146 families with 2- to 11-year-olds undergoing elective surgery partic...

This study examined relationships between mother-child interactions and children's behaviors in 119 urban African American mothers and their 6 - 7 year old children. Interactions during a cooking task and a follow-up child clean-up task were videotaped. Principal components analyses of behaviors during the cooking task yielded two factors in mothers (Sensitivity and Control), and three in child...

Neural networks provide a basis for studying child language development in that such networks emphasise learning. We report a simulation of some key aspects of child language development during infancy. We argue that in order to simulate the uniquely human language learning, it is important to use a ‘conglomerate’ neural network architecture that integrates the collective strengths of a variety...

Article history: Received 27 November 2014 Received in revised form 11 January 2016 Accepted 5 March 2016 Available online xxxx This study aimed to replicate and extend the pilot findings of Cassidy et al. (2011)which found that teaching children to derive various relations among stimuli leads to increases in the full scale IQ scores of both typically developing children and those with educatio...

Mathematical ability is related to both activation of the prefrontal cortex in neuroimaging studies of adults and to executive functions in school-age children. The purpose of this study was to determine whether executive functions were related to emergent mathematical proficiency in preschool children. Preschool children (N = 96) were administered an executive function battery that was reduced...

A number of factors are believed to confer risk for anxiety development in children; however, cultural variation of purported risk factors remains unclear. We examined relations between controlling and rejecting parenting styles, parental modeling of anxious behaviors, child interpretive biases, and child anxiety in a mixed clinically anxious (n=27) and non-clinical (n=20) sample of Latino chil...