Parental stimulation of high-risk infants in naturalistic settings.
The realization that infants needed to be in a stimulating environment was born of the maternal-deprivation literature. Early studies suggested that an infant's own mother was required for healthy infant development, but reviews of these reports suggest a variety of methodologic flaws. This article examines the mother-infant interaction with the possibility of capturing the quality, variety, and timing of each partner's behavior.
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Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities, Staten Island, New York.
D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D004314:Down Syndrome / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007230:Infant, Low Birth Weight / Q000523:psychology*; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000523:psychology; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D014705:Verbal Behavior