Projects
Improving Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health through a Participa-tory Parent-Child Commu-nication Intervention in Uganda Ghent University
The Child Effect in Media Use: Investigating Family Dynamics Concerning Media Behavior in Parent-Child Dyads. KU Leuven
Most studies on the uses and effects of media and communication by parents and children have focused on how parents influence and guide the media use of their children. Much less is known about how children influence and guide the media use of their parents. Yet children are often the driving force behind the introduction of new media and new media contents within families. In 2005, Van den Bulck and Van den Bergh published a review in the ...
Take Signing to the Child. On the Parental Use of Visual Communication Strategies, and Deaf ChildrenU+2019s Visual Communication and Early Flemish Sign Language. Ghent University
This dissertation wants to deliver an original contribution to the existing national and international Sign Language Acquisition and Assessment research, mainly in four domains:
First, the exploratory case study is the first detailed description of a moderately deaf childU+2019s Flemish Sign Language development, with native exposure to Flemish Sign Language (VGT) from birth up to the age of 24 months. Remarkable linguistic and ...
Targeting children, reaching the family. Can child-targeted persuasive retail communication persuade children and parents to opt for suboptimal food? Ghent University
This project will examine how suboptimal food can be promoted among children (6-12 years), as they have a major influence on family consumption patterns. The effectiveness of hedonic, gain and normative framed messages in the retail environment will be tested among children. In addition, we will examine how these children influence their household through pester power and reverse socialization.
Promoting social communication skills in preschool children with ASD: Training parents and teachers Ghent University
Social-communicative abilities are important intervention goals for children with ASD. Research shows that interventions targeting these abilities should be intensive and should promote generalization of learnt skills. Parents and teachers are ideal intervention agents to stimulate social-communicative abilities in a natural context. Moreover, training natural interaction partners provides a cost-effective alternative to intensive one-on-one ...
“IT’S A MATTER OF ATTUNEMENT”: EXPLORING COUPLE COMMUNICATION IN TIMES OF CHILD LOSS AND CHILD CANCER KU Leuven
Confronted with something as fundamental as a cancer diagnosis or death of one’s child, it is generally assumed that sharing the emotional impact of it, in the form of talking about it with the partner, is helpful and necessary in order to cope as an individual and as a couple. Undoubtedly, being able to talk to one another can be a way for connecting emotionally with the partner, and supporting each other through difficult times. However, ...
A multilingual app for healthcare communication innovation HOGENT
Early language development in very young children at risk of an autism spectrum disorder Ghent University
The first major objective of the current project is to uncover language growth, possible language impairments and their specific developmental pathways in very young children at risk for ASD. To this end, language development will be analyzed in great detail. Until now, language in these children has been mainly researched by examining the number of words they produce and understand. Language, however, contains more elements by which ...
Remembering trauma in between disclosure and silencing: A multiple case study with Kurdish refugee families in Belgium KU Leuven
Research on the psychosocial sequelae of collective violence and forced displacement increasingly investigates the potentially harmful impact of these disruptive life experiences on relational dynamics within refugee families. Meanwhile, studies explore how intra-family processes may constitute protective sources in reversing the adverse impact of traumatization and reconstructing life in exile. In this regard, trauma communication has been ...