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Ana Mantilla; Katherine Bussey; Emily Chan; Bibi Gerner; Nicole Rinehart – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2024
Children with cerebral palsy frequently experience challenges and barriers to inclusion in early childhood education and care. However, there is limited research exploring the experiences of children with cerebral palsy and their families. Understanding family perspectives on their experience is likely to provide insights for professionals to…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Inclusion, Early Childhood Education, Child Care
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Wise, Sarah – Family Matters, 2002
Effects of differences between home and child care were studied, focusing on expectations and values of caregivers and of parents of toddlers in Australia from Vietnamese, Somali, and Anglo-Australian backgrounds. Preliminary data show that parents from minority ethnic groups selected child care paralleling child's home experiences. Parents using…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Caregivers, Comparative Analysis
Ebbeck, Marjory; Yim, Hoi Yin Bonnie – Early Child Development and Care, 2009
This article provides a synthesis of current theory and research in relation to attachment between infants/toddlers and their caregivers. Worldwide statistics show that there are a significant number of women working in the global labour market. In Australia, recent research also found that over 300,000 children aged 0-5 years are currently…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Toddlers, Infants, Interviews
Levickis, Penny; Murray, Lisa; Lee-Pang, Lynn; Eadie, Patricia; Page, Jane; Lee, Wan Yi; Hill, Georgie – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has created significant challenges for Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) services and families, impacting family access to services and their communication and engagement with educators. This study aimed to examine parents' perspectives of family engagement with ECEC services during the pandemic. Primary caregivers in…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Early Childhood Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
Health Promotion Challenges for Young Adults Living with Intellectual Disability and Type 1 Diabetes
Marks, Anne L.; Mahoney, Natasha; Chen, Yu-Wei; Cordier, Reinie; Buchanan, Angus; Wilson, Nathan J. – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2022
Background: Self-management of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) can be challenging for people with intellectual disability. Often, parents provide health support due to lack of appropriate services outside the home. The study aim was to identify barriers and facilitators to T1DM self-management for young adults with intellectual disability and the…
Descriptors: Diabetes, Intellectual Disability, Caregivers, Family Environment
Warren, Jane; Harden-Thew, Kathryn – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2019
Smooth transitions through the early years of education are recognised as pivotal to later personal and academic success. However, for children considered outside the mainstream, these transitions can provide extra challenge for them, their families and educators. This paper reveals the findings of two qualitative studies investigating early…
Descriptors: Child Care Centers, Adjustment (to Environment), Bilingual Students, Parent Attitudes
Stacey Campbell – Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2021
Parental pressure to include formalised school-type literacy lessons has been reported as a factor influencing the types of phonics instruction young children encounter in the prior-to-school years. Parents and early childhood teachers support effective phonics instruction through guided play-based learning in the prior-to-school years. Few…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Play, Early Childhood Education, Emergent Literacy
Cloughessy, Kathy; Waniganayake, Manjula – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2019
Children's picture books featuring same-sex parented families have been suggested as a powerful resource in leading change in the struggle against heteronormativity in early childhood education. At present, little is known about lesbian parents' perceptions of how picture books in their homes and in early childhood settings can influence…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Parent Attitudes, Homosexuality, Childrens Literature
Bartlett, Tess S.; Flynn, Catherine A.; Trotter, Christopher J. – Child Care in Practice, 2018
In Victoria, data indicates that in 2013-2014 there were 74,992 adult male arrests, yet little formal attention has been paid to the parenting status of these men, despite knowledge of the impact of parental arrest and incarceration on children being well established. This article addresses a gap in the literature by providing new insights into…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Fathers, Parent Child Relationship
Grace, Rebekah; Bowes, Jennifer; Elcombe, Emma – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2014
To support national policy initiatives in early childhood education and to determine reasons for low enrolment in services from families in disadvantaged areas, the authors investigated the views and practices of 101 families from disadvantaged communities. Families with a child aged 3-5 years were recruited from urban, rural and remote areas of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Enrollment Trends, Economically Disadvantaged
Sanagavarapu, Prathyusha – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2018
Despite the increasing attendance of children with food allergy in schools in Australia and globally, little is known about how affected families manage their children's transition to school. This paper discusses the experiences and support needs of ten mothers during their child's transition to school in Sydney, Australia, drawn from the thematic…
Descriptors: Mothers, Special Needs Students, Food Standards, School Readiness
Murray, Elizabeth; McFarland-Piazza, Laura; Harrison, Linda J. – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
PreschoolThis study investigated the nature of parent involvement and parent-educator communication in prior-to-school early childhood settings and school, to explore relations to social capital variables and consistencies and changes in practices over time. Parent interview and teacher questionnaire data from two waves of the Longitudinal Study…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Regression (Statistics), Social Capital
Kidd, Theresa; Kaczmarek, Elizabeth – Issues in Educational Research, 2010
The number of families choosing to home educate their children with disabilities, including Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), has increased in Australia in recent years, however our knowledge about parent's experience of implementing such programmes is limited. This qualitative study was designed to explore mothers' perspectives of home educating a…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Mothers, Autism, Foreign Countries
Dharan, Vijaya – Kairaranga, 2020
With a conservative estimate of 1 in 100 children thought to be on the autism spectrum (Ministry of Health, n.d.), this article reports on findings from a preliminary exploratory national study of parents of children aged 0-21 with ASD. Using an e-survey questionnaire and focus groups, the study sought to understand the supports that were…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Family Needs, Childhood Needs
De Gioia, Katey – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2009
The use of childcare services for very young children (birth to three years) has increased dramatically in the past two decades (Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, 2004). This article investigates the expectations for cultural continuity of caregiving practices (with particular emphasis on sleep and feeding) between…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Cultural Background
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