Simona de Falco, Gianluca Esposito, Paola Venuti, Marc H Bornstein
{"title":"Mothers and Fathers at Play with their Children with Down Syndrome: Influence on Child Exploratory and Symbolic Activity.","authors":"Simona de Falco, Gianluca Esposito, Paola Venuti, Marc H Bornstein","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>BACKGROUND: Through play children exercise their emerging mental abilities, and for their part, when in collaborative play, caregivers often adjust their behaviours to assist their children's progress. In this study, we focused on comparisons between play of Down Syndrome (DS) children with their two parents as well as on comparisons between the two parents' play behaviours. METHOD: Altogether 40 parent-child dyads participated: 20 children with DS (M age = 36.14 months) with their mothers and separately with their fathers. We coded participants' play behaviours during child solitary and mother-child and father-child collaborative sessions. RESULTS: Although children increased exploratory play from solitary to collaborative sessions with both parents, symbolic play increased only during joint play with fathers. Fathers displayed less symbolic and more exploratory activity compared to mothers. Mothers and fathers alike were attuned to their children, although fathers showed a higher degree of attunement. CONCLUSIONS: This study shows that maternal and paternal contributions to DS child play skills are positive but different. During collaborative play children received specific and nonoverlapping scaffolding from their two parents, and fathers' contributions were unique.</p>","PeriodicalId":73610,"journal":{"name":"Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARID","volume":"23 6","pages":"597-605"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3530190/pdf/nihms405416.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40200477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Simona de Falco, G. Esposito, P. Venuti, M. Bornstein
{"title":"Mothers and Fathers at Play with their Children with Down Syndrome: Influence on Child Exploratory and Symbolic Activity.","authors":"Simona de Falco, G. Esposito, P. Venuti, M. Bornstein","doi":"10.1111/J.1468-3148.2010.00558.X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1468-3148.2010.00558.X","url":null,"abstract":"BACKGROUND: Through play children exercise their emerging mental abilities, and for their part, when in collaborative play, caregivers often adjust their behaviours to assist their children's progress. In this study, we focused on comparisons between play of Down Syndrome (DS) children with their two parents as well as on comparisons between the two parents' play behaviours. METHOD: Altogether 40 parent-child dyads participated: 20 children with DS (M age = 36.14 months) with their mothers and separately with their fathers. We coded participants' play behaviours during child solitary and mother-child and father-child collaborative sessions. RESULTS: Although children increased exploratory play from solitary to collaborative sessions with both parents, symbolic play increased only during joint play with fathers. Fathers displayed less symbolic and more exploratory activity compared to mothers. Mothers and fathers alike were attuned to their children, although fathers showed a higher degree of attunement. CONCLUSIONS: This study shows that maternal and paternal contributions to DS child play skills are positive but different. During collaborative play children received specific and nonoverlapping scaffolding from their two parents, and fathers' contributions were unique.","PeriodicalId":73610,"journal":{"name":"Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARID","volume":"35 1","pages":"597-605"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78771350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Finding the Right Assessment Measures for Young People with Intellectual Disabilities Who Display Harmful Sexual Behaviour.","authors":"Aida Malovic, G. Murphy, S. Coulton","doi":"10.1111/jar.12299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jar.12299","url":null,"abstract":"BACKGROUND\u0000Previous studies and national reports have all noted that a significant proportion of the young people who display harmful sexual behaviours have intellectual disabilities. However, research on the topic has been scarce. This study presents a systematic review of the literature relating to clinical instruments specifically developed or adapted for adolescents with intellectual disabilities who display harmful sexual behaviours.\u0000\u0000\u0000METHOD\u0000An electronic search of databases was completed for published articles in English from the earliest possible date to the end of 2013.\u0000\u0000\u0000RESULTS\u0000No published articles met the full search criteria. This confirmed the lack of published clinical measures, apart from two risk assessment instruments.\u0000\u0000\u0000CONCLUSIONS\u0000Given the lack of measures, it is recommended that the focus of future research needs to be on developing or adapting instruments that will offer researchers' and clinicians' empirical as well as clinical data on this all-too-often-overlooked population of vulnerable youth.","PeriodicalId":73610,"journal":{"name":"Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARID","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78795717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}