Social Competence in Infants and Toddlers with Special Health Care Needs: The Roles of Parental Knowledge, Expectations, Attunement, and Attitudes toward Child Independence

• Main Authors: Debra Zand (Author), Katherine Pierce (Author), Nicole Thomson (Author), M. Waseem Baig (Author), Cristiana Teodorescu (Author), Sohail Nibras (Author), Rolanda Maxim (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Little research has empirically addressed the relationships among parental knowledge of child development, parental attunement, parental expectations, and child independence in predicting the social competence of infants and toddlers with special health care needs. We used baseline data from the Str...