Background Assessment of mother-child interactions is a core issue of early child
development and psychopathology. This paper focuses on the concept of “synchrony” and …

Improvements in medical interventions for people with Down's syndrome have led to a
substantial increase in their longevity. Diagnosis and treatment of neurological …

This article provides an update on advances in both developmental and intervention science
that have occurred in the field of early intervention for children with developmental delays in …

Symbolic play and language are known to be highly interrelated, but the developmental
process involved in this relationship is not clear. Three hypothetical paths were postulated to …

Characterising how socio‐cognitive abilities develop has been crucial to understanding the
wider development of typically developing children. It is equally central to understanding …

The purpose of this scoping review was to identify the family and child quality of life
variables that have been studied in relation to one another in children with Down syndrome …

Children with developmental disabilities benefit from their language environment as much
as, or even more than, typically developing (TD) children, but maternal language directed to …

The purpose of this article was to describe a taxonomy of pretend play for children with
disabilities based on a systematic review of the literature to characterize pretend play. Thirty …

Background: The Face-to-Face Still-Face (FFSF) paradigm is a well-acknowledged
procedure to assess socio-emotional regulation in healthy and at-risk infants. Although it …

During the first years of life, maternal touch can serve different functions including facilitation
of child's gaze orientation to faces which is a key precursor for social attention. Although …