Maternal beliefs about children's social behavior may be important contributors to socialization and development, but little is known about how such beliefs form. Transactional models suggest that children's characteristics may influence parents. At 2 years of age, the shy and aggressive behaviors of 65 toddlers (28 females) were observed during interactions with an unfamiliar peer; as well, mo...

RPG is a game genre that focuses the cooperative interaction among players, as well as socialization and the improvement of communication skills. As these actions form the very context of these games, RPGs have an inherent level of decision-making that naturally occurs at all times throughout the course of the game. Those reasons led the idea to take advantage of the RPG genre to design a model...

PURPOSE To evaluate social adjustment and related factors among Chinese children with Down syndrome (DS). PATIENTS AND METHODS A structured interview and Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) were conducted with a group of 36 DS children with a mean age of 106.28 months, a group of 30 normally-developing children matched for mental age (MA) and a group of 40 normally-developing children matc...

We focus on information and knowledge flows as social network processes in organizational contexts. Seeking and giving work-related information is distinguished from seeking and providing problem-solving help as knowledge flows. Hypotheses from the literature suggest that (perceived) accessibility, knowledge about the work-related skills of others, and knowledge about the functions that others ...

Children with autism exhibit significant deficits in imitation skills which impede the acquisition of more complex behaviors and socialization, and are thus an important focus of early intervention programs for children with autism. This study used a multiple-baseline design across five young children with autism to assess the benefit of a naturalistic behavioral technique for teaching object i...

UNLABELLED In Medical Education, feedback is an instrument that informs the trainees about their learning process and how to make the necessary changes. Feedback enables learners to monitor their progress and provides direction for improvement. Effective feedback is useful to improve the performance, clinical skills, communication skills, and treatment of patients. It is essential when teaching...

OBJECTIVES To compare neglect defined by Child Protective Services official codes with neglect defined by a review of CPS narrative data, and to examine the validity of the different neglect measures using children's functioning at age 8 years. METHODS Data are from 740 children participating in a consortium of longitudinal studies on child abuse and neglect; 481 had at least one CPS report p...

Twenty-seven studies were systematically reviewed to identify, evaluate, and synthesize the research literature on the effectiveness of sensory integration (SI) intervention on the ability of children with difficulty processing and integrating sensory information to engage in desired occupations and to apply these findings to occupational therapy practice. Results suggest the SI approach may re...

In the last years, socialization of the software development process has been proven to be an emergent practice, becoming social development platforms (such as GitHub or GitLab) very popular among software developers. However, little is still known about how social factors influence software development. In particular, in this paper we focus on how socialization affects the learning of programm...