Rex E. Culp

TL;DR: The authors assessed the language, speech and cognitive skills of abused, neglected, and abused and neglected children, finding that neglect was the type of maltreatment most associated with both expressive and receptive language delays and overall language delay.

TL;DR: Examining how parental cognitive stimulation, emotional support, and intrusiveness measured during children's prekindergarten year were related to children's verbal and nonverbal abilities 1 year later found parental emotional support during guidance of problem solving explained statistically significant unique variance in children's perceptual scores beyond other measures of emotional support.

TL;DR: Adolescents who have symptoms of depressed mood and who believe they must take care of their own problems are over-represented among teenagers who think of attempting suicide.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether cumulative family risk would moderate the relation between regularity of attending Head Start and three child outcomes: receptive vocabulary, teacher ratings of social competence, and teacher rating of following instructions.

TL;DR: The authors examined links between mothers' parenting and children's relational bullying and overt bullying in a sample of children attending a Head Start program and found that mothers' inappropriate developmental expectations for children and mothers' need to exert power over children rather than grant them independence were related to children's interpersonal bullying.