The ability to transfer learning across contexts is an adaptive skill that develops rapidly
during early childhood. Learning from television is a specific instance of transfer of learning …

The abilities to understand and use language represent two of the most important
developmental competencies that children must master during the first 3years of life. Over …

Second, AAC is a multidisciplinary field in which individuals with complex communication
needs and their families, along with computer programmers, educators, engineers, linguists …

Young preschoolers rapidly acquire new information from social partners but do not learn
efficiently from people on video. We trained parents to use Whitehurst's dialogic reading …

Social studies of scientific practice reveal considerable diversity in the methods and material
means of production across scientific disciplines (eg, Galison & Stump, 1995). Yet, in spite of …

To use a symbolic object such as a model, map, or picture, one must achieve dual
representation; that is, one must mentally represent both the symbol itself and its relation to …

Although there is along tradition of research on the development of scientific reasoning, the
impact of this research on science education has been limited and not always constructive …

In recent years, parents in the United States and worldwide have purchased enormous
numbers of videos and DVDs designed and marketed for infants, many assuming that their …

This chapter addresses the relation between hot and cool executive function (EF) in the
context of research on theory of mind (ToM) and EF. The relation between ToM and EF is …

In the first few years of life, children acquire a great deal of general information through
symbolic media, including television. Here we explored whether very young children would …