Pretend Play and Maternal Scaffolding: Comparisons of Toddlers with Advanced Development, Typical Development, and Hearing Impairment.

Morelock, Martha J.; Brown, P. Margaret; Morrissey, Anne-Marie

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ERIC Number: EJ677970

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2003

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ISSN: ISSN-0278-3193

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Pretend Play and Maternal Scaffolding: Comparisons of Toddlers with Advanced Development, Typical Development, and Hearing Impairment.

Morelock, Martha J.; Brown, P. Margaret; Morrissey, Anne-Marie

Roeper Review, v26 n1 p41-51 Fall 2003

A study involving three children with impaired hearing, three typical children, and three showing intellectual advancement, found children scoring above 130 IQ at age four demonstrated significantly advanced pretend play as toddlers. Mothers of the high IQ children engaged in scaffolding behaviors involving higher stages of pretend transformation, verbal analogies, and word links. (Contains references.) (Author/CR)

Descriptors: Ability Identification, Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education, Gifted, Imagination, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Pretend Play, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Toddlers

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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