Communicative interactions between visually impaired mothers and their sighted children: analysis of gaze, facial expressions, voice and physical contacts.
Background Social and emotional development of infants and young children is largely based on the communicative interaction with their mother, or principal caretaker (Trevarthen 1984). The main modalities implied in this early communication are voice, facial expressions and gaze (Stern 1993). This s...
| Publicado en: | Child: Care, Health & Development Vol. 41; no. 6; pp. 1040 - 1047 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Nov2015
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