User profiles for Paul R. Swank

Paul Swank

President, innovative thinking, inc.
Verified email at uth.tmc.edu
Cited by 23486

Responsive parenting: establishing early foundations for social, communication, and independent problem-solving skills.

SH Landry, KE Smith, PR Swank - Developmental psychology, 2006 - psycnet.apa.org
Mothers whose infants varied in early biological characteristics (born at term, n= 120; born
at very low birth weight [VLBW], n= 144) were randomized to a target group (n= 133) or …

Does early responsive parenting have a special importance for children's development or is consistency across early childhood necessary?

SH Landry, KE Smith, PR Swank… - Developmental …, 2001 - psycnet.apa.org
The role of early versus ongoing maternal responsiveness in predicting cognitive and social
development was examined in home visits for mothers, full-term children (n= 103), and …

Early maternal and child influences on children's later independent cognitive and social functioning

SH Landry, KE Smith, PR Swank… - Child …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
The present study examined whether parenting and child characteristics of 2‐ and 3H‐year‐old
children had common paths of influence on their 4H‐year independent cognitive and …

A responsive parenting intervention: the optimal timing across early childhood for impacting maternal behaviors and child outcomes.

SH Landry, KE Smith, PR Swank… - Developmental …, 2008 - psycnet.apa.org
This study examined the optimal timing (infancy, toddler-preschool, or both) for facilitating
responsive parenting and the intervention effects on maternal behaviors and child social and …

Patterns of adjustment among children of battered women.

…, EN Jouriles, PR Swank, R McDonald… - Journal of consulting …, 2000 - psycnet.apa.org
Children exposed to interparental violence have been characterized by an array of
psychological problems, but findings regarding the precise nature of these problems have been …

Predicting cognitive-language and social growth curves from early maternal behaviors in children at varying degrees of biological risk.

…, KE Smith, CL Miller-Loncar, PR Swank - Developmental …, 1997 - psycnet.apa.org
Growth modeling was used to examine the relation of early parenting behaviors (averaged
across 6 and 12 months) with rates of change in children's cognitive-language and social …

Effectiveness of comprehensive professional development for teachers of at-risk preschoolers.

SH Landry, JL Anthony, PR Swank… - Journal of …, 2009 - psycnet.apa.org
[Correction Notice: An erratum for this article was reported in Vol 101 (3) of Journal of
Educational Psychology (see record 2009-11043-017). In the article, a disclosure statement was …

The role of early parenting in children's development of executive processes

…, CL Miller-Loncar, KE Smith, PR Swank - Developmental …, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
Using structural modeling, we examined the influence of mothers' verbal input that provided
information about associations between objects and actions (scaffolding) at 3 and 4 years of …

Enhancing early literacy skills for preschool children: Bringing a professional development model to scale

SH Landry, PR Swank, KE Smith… - Journal of Learning …, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
A quasi-experimental, statewide intervention targeting preschool teachers' enhancement of
children's language and early literacy was evaluated. Across 2 years and 20 Head Start sites…

Modeling of longitudinal academic achievement scores after pediatric traumatic brain injury

…, JM Fletcher, HS Levin, PR Swank… - Developmental …, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
In a prospective longitudinal study, academic achievement scores were obtained from youth
5 to 15 years of age who sustained mild-moderate (n = 34) or severe (n = 43) traumatic …