Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: language, social skills, and behavioral functioning in preschool children / Cathy Huaqing Qi and Tina Stanton-Chapman, Early Childhood Special Education, Department of Educational Specialties, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA, and others
  • Language, social skills, behavior, parenting behavior and practices
  • Potential language delays and behavior problems in English-speaking Hhispanic preschool children in head start / Cathy Huaqing Qi, Tina Stanton-Chapman and and James Selig, Early Childhood Special Education, Department of Educational Specialties, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA, and others
  • Parenting behaviors and preschool literacy and problem solving outcomes / Yvette R. Harris, Department of Psychology, Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA
  • The impact of family factors and parenting practices on cognitive development and aggressive behavior among children in early head start / Yvonne Rafferty and Kenneth W. Griffin, Department of Psychology, Pace University, New York, NY, USA, and others
  • Child behavior problems and parenting stress in immigrant and single parent families with preschool children / Cynthia Leung, Shirley S.L. Leung and Ruth Chan, Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, and others
  • Effective interventions in social communication
  • An examination of the effects of a social communication intervention on verbal and non-verbal initiations and responses in 3-year-old children with disabilities / Tina L. Stanton-Chapman, Cathy Huaqing Qi and Kristen R. Jamison, Early Childhood Special Education, Department of Special Education, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA, and others
  • Effects of a multicomponent intervention to increase peer-directed communication in two preschool boys with an autism spectrum disorder / Christopher Denning and Tina L. Stanton-Chapman, Special Education, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, School of Education and Human Development, University of Massachusetts-Boston, Boston, MA, USA, and others
  • Effectiveness of modified social scripts in head start classrooms / Carol G. Smith, Teaching, and Learning, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
  • Pretend play with young children with autism spectrum disorders : a synthesis of the research / Erin E. Barton, Early Childhood Special Education, School of Education and Human Development, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO, USA
  • Interventions for social communication skills in preschool children with disabilities : trends and issues / Peishi Wang, Special Education, Department of Educational and Community Program, Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, NY, USA
  • Screening and evaluation of preschool behaviors
  • Assessing the behavioral and emotional adjustment of preschool children in Nairobi slums / Stephanie Milan, Child Clinical Psychology and Quantitative Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
  • A comprehensive framework for evaluating systems for screening preschool behaviors / Ryan J. Kettler, Kelly A. Feeney-Kettler, Milissa A. Palladino, Lindsey P. Zahra and Jennifer C. Rodriguez, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology at Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA, and others
  • Index.