Assessing the Child's Cognitive Home Environment Through Parental Report: Reliability and Validity

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 271-287

  Dreyer, Benard P ^a,c   Mendelsohn, Alan L ^a   Tamis LeMonda, Catherine S ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Child development; Cognitive home environment; Early childhood; Maternal sensitivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000043711     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0917(199612)5:4<271::aid-edp138>3.0.co;2-d     Document Type: Article

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