Infant twins’ social interactions with caregivers and same-age siblings

Aldrich, Naomi J.; Brooks, Patricia J.; Yuksel, Peri; Ragir, Sonia; Flory, Michael; Lennon, Elizabeth M.; Karmel, Bernard Z.; Gardner, Judith M.

doi:10.1016/j.infbeh.2015.08.005

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“…Six-month-old infants tend to react to their peers, but need maternal support to continue the interaction, showing how mothers contribute to children's social engagement 11 . Adult support also helps the child to coordinate joint care with other children and is related to the increase in communicative offers in these meetings 4 .…”

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“…As Amorim et al 1 point out, empirical studies have shown that infants interact with infants from an early age. Despite motor incompleteness, infants' broad repertoire of emotional, visual, auditory, olfactory, gestural and postural skills allow them to be active participants in interactions with their contemporaries 2 , demonstrating differential patterns of communicative and expressive resources 3 , and specificities in the development of social engagement 4 .…”

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“…Thus, objects, toys and even peer actions are attractive, making it possible, for example, to establish infant-infant-object interactions, which are considered fundamental for the development of joint attention 8 or coordinated joint engagement 4 . Such processes refer to the child's ability to coordinate his attention/action towards an object or event together with another individual and enable the recognition of the other's communicative intentions, being a milestone in the development of referential communicative skills 4,9 . Involving intermodal sensorimotor processes, with synchronization and coordination of actions, they also promote advances in the child's abilities to imitate his social partners and through imitation his behavioral and communicative repertoires expand 10 .…”

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Infants’ peer interaction in institutional foster care service

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Souza

Amorim

2020

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Introduction: Based on the perspective of children’s intersubjectivity, it is understood that infants are able to interact with infants from a very early age. These interactions can offer important constitutive experiences for them. Objective: It was investigated how interactions between infants-infants/toddlers in institutional care occur, describing: the frequency of these interactions; the emotional-communicative resources involved; partners’ responsiveness; and the environmental organization. Methods: A qualitative, descriptive, and exploratory case study was conducted. Participants were focal baby (aged between 10 and 13 months) and their interactive peers (4 to 17 months) in institutional care. We used weekly video recordings for three months in the naturalistic context. The categories “attention orientation”, “search/maintenance of proximity”, “social exchanges”, and “responsiveness” were quantified and compared with the interaction between infant and caregiver. Interactive episodes were also thoroughly described. Results: Cribs, strollers, gates, and grids, with few toys available, marked the organization of the physical-social space. It was observed that the infants spent most of their time in individual activities (alone); and their social behaviors were more often directed to caregivers. The interactions between infants/toddlers were less frequent, although it was with the peers that social exchanges, joint activities, and co-regulated interactions occurred the most (with reciprocity and sharing). Peer responsiveness also involved empathic and pro-social behaviors (with experiences of interpersonal engagement), where attentional, emotional, and motivational processes operated. Conclusion: Peers interactions between infants/toddlers in institutional care were infrequent. However, when it occurred, the children showed sensitivity and responsiveness to their peers' emotional-communicative expressions. The organization of the institutional environment proved to be a relevant constraint of peer interactions: due to the material/spatial arrangement that made contact between children difficult; and by the absence of the adult as a promoter of these interactions. Finally, we call attention to the need for further investigations about interactive indicators of infants in institutional care.

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“…Instead, we were interested in how twins would present with regard to risk factors for DLD (developmental language disorder) using a clinical tool combined with case history details' (p. 333). Foran et al (2021) indicated that the only other study of twins' gestures (Aldrich et al, 2015) found that twin toddlers were more likely to use showing gestures and other communicative/ interactive behaviors with their mothers than with their twin siblings. Here again, it is unfortunate that the zygosity of the participating pairs was not established by standard means; the eight same-sex pairs could have been MZ or DZ.…”

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Mysteries of Monozygosity: Theories and Breakthroughs/Twin Research: Rare Case of Lost Twins; Developing a National Twin Registry; Twins’ Language and Gesture Delays; DNA Testing for Vanishing Twins/Media Reports: Identical Twins Discordant for COVID Vaccination; World’s Oldest Identical Twins; Olympic Athlete Stand-in; Fraternal Twin Football Players

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Twin Res Hum Genet

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The processes that give rise to monozygotic (MZ) twins remain elusive. This article describes various theories of MZ twinning that have been examined over the years, although they continue to be speculative. It has also been impossible to know if a singleton began life as an MZ twin; however, a critical technological breakthrough can now reveal this important birth history information with a high degree of certainty. The section that follows presents reviews of current research regarding rare twin loss, development of a twin registry, twins’ communicative delays and DNA testing for vanishing twins. The article concludes with a survey of newsworthy twins, namely identical twins discordant for COVID vaccination, the world’s oldest identical twins, an Olympic athletic stand-in and fraternal twin football players.

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“…The second group, which was concerned with the social aspect of the communication, presented two articles. The first one was a hybrid between expressive language abilities and prosocial behavior [3], and the last one was concerned with the social interactions of twin infants with their caregivers and same-age siblings [104].…”

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A Review of Data Analysis for Early-Childhood Period: Taxonomy, Motivations, Challenges, Recommendation, and Methodological Aspects

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Zaidan

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Early childhood is a significant period when transitions take place in children. This period is a hot topic among researchers who pursue this domain across different scientific disciplines. Many studies addressed social, scientific, medical, and technical topics during early childhood. Researchers also utilized different analysis measures to conduct experiments on the different types of data related to the early childhood to produce research articles. This paper aims to review and analyze the literature related to early childhood in addition to the data analyses and the types of data used. The factors that were considered to boost the understanding of contextual aspects in the published studies related to early childhood were considered as open challenges, motivations, and recommendations of researchers who aimed to advance the study in this area of science. We systematically searched articles on topics related to early childhood, the data analysis approaches used, and the types of data applied. The search was conducted on five major databases, namely, ScienceDirect, Scopus, Web of Science, IEEE Xplore, and PubMed from 2013 to September 2017. These indices were considered sufficiently extensive and reliable to cover our field of the literature. Articles were selected on the basis of our inclusion and exclusion criteria (n = 233). The first portion of studies (n = 103/233) focused on the different aspects related to the development of children in early age. They discussed different topics, such as the body growth development of children, psychology, skills, and other related topics that overlap between two or more of the previous topics or do not fall into any of the categories but are still under development. The second portion of studies (n = 107/233) focused on different aspects associated with health in early childhood. A number of topics were discussed in this regard, such as those related to family health, medical procedures, interventions, and risk that address the health-related aspects, in addition to other related topics that overlap between two or more of the previous topics or do not fall into any of the categories but are still under health. The remaining studies (n = 23/233) were categorized to the other main category because they overlap between the previous two major categories, namely, development and health, or they do not fall into any of the previous main categories. Early childhood is a sensitive period in every child's life. This period was studied using different means of data analysis and with the aid of different data types to produce different findings from the previous studies. Research areas on early childhood vary, but they are equally significant. This paper emphasizes the current standpoint and opportunities for research in this area and boosts additional efforts toward the understanding of this research field. INDEX TERMS Early-childhood, panel data, longitudinal data, cross-sectional time series data.

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Infant twins’ social interactions with caregivers and same-age siblings

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Infants’ peer interaction in institutional foster care service

Infants’ peer interaction in institutional foster care service

A Review of Data Analysis for Early-Childhood Period: Taxonomy, Motivations, Challenges, Recommendation, and Methodological Aspects

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