TY - JOUR A1 - Macha, Katrin A1 - Urban, Mathias A1 - Lonnemann, Jan A1 - Wronski, Caroline A1 - Hildebrandt, Frauke T1 - Children’s perspectives on quality in ECEC as a specific form of participation JF - International Journal of Early Years Education N2 - In this paper, we want to present research on children’s perspectives in the context of participation. We emphasize that the survey of children's perspectives is a form of participation. We understand participation based on children’s rights. We refer to the Lundy model ([2007]. “‘Voice’ Is Not Enough: Conceptualising Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.” British Educational Research Journal 33 (6): 927–942. https://doi.org/10.1080/01411920701657033), which emphasizes that it is not enough to simply ask children to speak their minds. Rather, they also need the experience that their views have an influence. In the discourse on quality in ECEC, children's perspectives became only recently the focus of extended research. In evaluation instruments, at least in Germany, the inclusion of children’s perspectives is rare. In the study presented here, these two aspects are brought together using the example of the evaluation instrument QuaSi. We describe how children's perspectives are taken into account in the evaluation and feedback process in contrast to everyday life in ECEC centres. It becomes clear that the collection of children's perspectives and their feedback to the pedagogues in the centre does not automatically lead to their views influencing the quality of the centre. KW - Partizipation KW - Kind KW - Menschenrecht Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/09669760.2023.2299267 SN - 0966-9760 SN - 1469-8463 VL - 32 IS - 1 SP - 246 EP - 260 PB - Taylor and Francis CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hildebrandt, Frauke A1 - Glauer, Ramiro T1 - „Ich denke, dass es so ist. - Und was meinst du?“ : Nachdenkgespräche mit Kindern führen JF - Lehren & lernen : Zeitschrift für Schule und Innovation aus Baden-Württemberg N2 - Der vorliegende Beitrag erläutert Nachdenkgespräche mit Kindern, beginnend in der Kita. Explikative Gespräche regen das Spekulieren und Nachdenken an, ergründen Zusammenhänge, stellen den Augenschein in Frage, fragen „was wäre, wenn …?“. Nachdenkgespräche eröffnen Möglichkeitsräume, die gedanklich durchschritten werden, stoßen Prozesse an, die wir denken nennen. Dies ist eine wichtige Voraussetzung für das Lernen und Einüben von elementaren Prozessen (Denkstrukturen), mit denen wir am Beginn unserer bewusst gemachten kognitiven Entwicklung auf den Weg gebracht werden, die sprachlichen Möglichkeiten bei der Suche nach Gründen und Erklärungen für alltägliche oder besondere Sachverhalte zu finden. KW - Kognitive Entwicklung KW - Kind KW - Gespräch KW - Dialog Y1 - 2022 SN - 0341-8294 VL - 48 IS - 8-9 SP - 69 EP - 73 PB - Neckar-Verlag CY - Villingen-Schwenningen ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hildebrandt, Frauke A1 - Glauer, Ramiro T1 - Entdecken, forschen, kommunizieren JF - Welt des Kindes : die Fachzeitschrift für Kindertageseinrichtungen KW - Kind KW - Entdeckendes Lernen Y1 - 2022 SN - 0373-5885 IS - 3 SP - 8 EP - 13 PB - Lambertus-Verlag GmbH CY - Freiburg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lorenz-Sinai, Friederike T1 - Dimensionen der Verwirklichung von Kinderrechten am Beispiel des Rechts auf Schutz vor Gewalt in Institutionen JF - Treffpunkt Bücherei KW - Kind KW - Menschenrecht Y1 - 2022 SN - 2194-1092 IS - 2 SP - 6 EP - 7 CY - München ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wronski, Caroline A1 - Hildebrandt, Frauke T1 - Das Recht auf Beteiligung im Krippenalltag JF - Kita aktuell - Recht KW - Kinderkrippe KW - Kind KW - Beteiligung KW - Menschenrecht Y1 - 2022 SN - 1612-0809 IS - 1 SP - 10 EP - 13 PB - Wolters Kluwer Deutschland CY - Kronach ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hildebrandt, Frauke A1 - Glauer, Ramiro T1 - Ich will das und ich schaffe das! : über die Fähigkeit, eine Idee umzusetzen JF - Kindergarten heute N2 - Manchmal scheint aufgeben leichter als durchhalten. Um gesteckte Ziele zu erreichen, brauchen Kinder vor allem eins: motivierende Erwachsene. KW - Sustained Shared Thinking KW - Kind KW - Interaktion KW - Denken KW - Kindertagesstätte KW - Erzieher Y1 - 2022 SN - 2628-5541 VL - 52 IS - 9 SP - 10 EP - 14 PB - Verlag Herder CY - Freiburg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Nef, Susanne A1 - Lorenz-Sinai, Friederike T1 - Multilateral generation of violence : on the theorization of microscopic analyses and empirically grounded theories of violence JF - Historical Social Research N2 - Using two phenomena of violence against children and intimate partner violence and based on two case studies, we explore the extent to which social processes of interpreting and negotiating violence contribute to further theorization efforts. The central unifying element is that both forms of violence are enabled and performed in power relations and have long been socially, legally, and politically legitimized. Therefore, our study’s focus is not on violence as a subject but rather on the social negotiation and construction of meanings of actions framed as violent. This perspective is exemplified by two independent case studies and data material that illustrate how such microscopic arguments are developed empirically. The methods used for the two case studies include qualitative analyses of interviews and organizational documents. Hence, we also discuss the researchers’ involvement and challenges in these processes. Based on our analytical findings, we argue for the use of an approach of a subject appropriated theorizing violence rather than a formal theory formation of violence. The procedural analysis of violence revealed its importance in making non-public and socially taboo forms of violence analytically accessible. T2 - Multilaterale Erzeugung von Gewalt : zur Theoretisierung von mikroskopischen Analysen und empirisch fundierten Gewalttheorien KW - Gewalt KW - Häusliche Gewalt KW - Kind KW - Partnerschaft KW - Macht KW - Theoriebildung Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.47.2022.05 SN - 0172-6404 VL - 47 IS - 1 SP - 111 EP - 131 PB - Köln ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Maywald, Jörg A1 - Pergande, Bianka T1 - Missachtet und abgehängt BT - Kinder und Kinderrechte während der COVID-19-Pandemie JF - Sozial Extra N2 - Obwohl Kinder in besonderer Weise von den Einschränkungen aufgrund der COVID-19-Pandemie betroffen sind, wurden ihre Rechte in der Krise nur mit großer Verzögerung und sehr unvollständig berücksichtigt. Um die Interessen von Kindern während zukünftiger Krisen nicht erneut zu missachten, ist die Verwirklichung eines Kinderrechtsansatzes auf allen Ebenen notwendig. Besonders wichtig ist dafür die Verankerung der Kinderrechte im Grundgesetz. KW - Kind KW - Menschenrecht KW - Krise KW - COVID-19 KW - Pandemie KW - Kindeswohl Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s12054-022-00466-3 SN - 1863-8953 VL - 46 IS - 2 SP - 99 EP - 104 PB - VS Verl. für Sozialwissenschaften CY - Wiesbaden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Macha, Katrin A1 - Hildebrandt, Frauke A1 - Wronski, Caroline A1 - Lonnemann, Jan A1 - Urban, Mathias T1 - Making it explicit BT - Sustained shared thinking dialogue as a way to explore children's perspectives on quality in German early childhood education and care JF - British educational research journal N2 - To negotiate quality in early childhood education and care, we must ask from different perspectives what constitutes a good centre for children. The children themselves have only recently been identified as a resource to contribute to that discussion. Several studies have described profound methodologies to obtain children's perspectives by observing, interviewing and conducting group discussions. This article introduces research that combines exploring children's perspectives with sustained shared thinking (SST). Focussing on the dialogue following the rules of SST, we conducted and analysed group discussions with children about their lives within a children's centre in Berlin, Germany. The children were asked to think about aspects of quality. They expressed their ideas, wishes, likes and dislikes within the centre explicitly and profoundly. Following the lead of these children, a dialogue developed in which children and researchers contributed equally and led the way. This showed how well children could act out their agency and were capable of expressing rational and reasonable opinions. Here, we argue that SST helps to see the pedagogical side of exploring children's perspectives and acknowledges this as a pedagogical and political act. Children experience being heard and having a say in shaping situations. This is in itself a pedagogical situation a researcher should be aware of. KW - Erfahrung KW - Kind KW - Kleinkind KW - Partizipation KW - Perspektive Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.4054 SN - 0141-1926 SN - 1469-3518 SP - 1 EP - 17 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hildebrandt, Frauke A1 - Glauer, Ramiro A1 - Moore, Richard T1 - Rethinking how children individuate objects BT - Spatial indexicals in early development JF - Synthese N2 - The current understanding of cognitive development rests on the premise that infants can individuate objects early on. However, the so-called object-first account faces severe difficulties explaining extant empirical findings in object individuation tasks while alternative, more parsimonious explanations are available. In this paper, we assume that children start as feature-thinkers without being able to individuate objects and show how this ability can be learned by thinkers who do not already implicitly possess the notion of an object. Based on Tugendhat's ideas on the relation between singular terms and object reference, we argue that spatial indexicals comprise the fundamental means of object individuation and describe how feature thinkers might acquire the complex substitutional system of spatial indexicals. In closing, two accounts of object cognition that do not rely on symbolic capacities, namely Pylyshyn's FINST indexes and Burge's perceptual objectivity, are critically discussed. KW - Kind KW - Säugling KW - Kognitive Entwicklung Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:525-31948 SN - 0039-7857 SN - 1573-0964 VL - 202 IS - 3 SP - 1 EP - 25 PB - Springer Nature CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Glauer, Ramiro A1 - Hildebrandt, Frauke A1 - Huwer, Julia A1 - Lonnemann, Jan A1 - Klüber, Nadin A1 - Macha, Katrin A1 - Marusch, Tina A1 - Vesova, Nadica A1 - Wronski, Caroline T1 - Kinderrechte im Kita-Alltag JF - WamiKi : Das pädagogische Fachmagazin KW - Kind KW - Menschenrecht KW - Kindertagesstätte KW - Alltag Y1 - 2023 UR - https://wamiki.de/article/was-wuerdest-du-tun-2/ SN - 2363-7714 IS - 4 SP - 32 EP - 40 CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Glauer, Ramiro A1 - Hildebrandt, Frauke A1 - Huwer, Julia A1 - Lonnemann, Jan A1 - Klüber, Nadin A1 - Macha, Katrin A1 - Marusch, Tina A1 - Vesova, Nadica A1 - Wronski, Caroline T1 - Mit Kindern essen und trinken - aber wie? JF - WamiKi : Das pädagogische Fachmagazin N2 - Im Sommer 2021 erschien die bundesweite Studie „Beteiligung von Kindern im Kita-Alltag“, die Fachhochschule Potsdam und die Universität Graz hatten sie im Auftrag des Bundesfamilienministeriums erstellt. Ein Team aus Wissenschaftlerinnen hatte Alltagssituationen in 89 Kitas und Krippen offen gefilmt und ausgewertet. Vor allem beim Essen beobachteten die Forscherinnen immer wieder „grenzüberschreitenden Körperkontakt“ und nicht angemessenes Verhalten der pädagogischen Fachkräfte: Sie schoben etwa den Stuhl samt Kind so nah an den Tisch, dass das Kind den Oberkörper kaum bewegen konnte. Andere stellten den Teller auf dem Lätzchen ab, ebenfalls um zu verhindern, dass sich die Kinder beim Essen zu viel bewegen. In rund 30 % der zehnminütigen Essenssequenzen beobachteten die Forscherinnen solche Vorfälle ein- bis viermal. In 16 % der Situationen sogar noch öfter. Lediglich in einem Fünftel der ausgewerteten Spielsituationen und 11 % der Essenssequenzen beobachteten die Forscherinnen überhaupt kein grenz­überschreitendes Verhalten. KW - Kind KW - Nahrungsaufnahme Y1 - 2023 SN - 2363-7714 IS - 1 SP - 14 EP - 26 CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Glauer, Ramiro A1 - Hildebrandt, Frauke A1 - Huwer, Julia A1 - Lonnemann, Jan A1 - Klüber, Nadin A1 - Macha, Katrin A1 - Marusch, Tina A1 - Vesova, Nadica A1 - Wronski, Caroline T1 - Wie wir Kinder bei Konflikten begleiten können JF - WamiKi : Das pädagogische Fachmagazin KW - Konflikt KW - Kind KW - Begleitung KW - Eltern Y1 - 2023 SN - 2363-7714 IS - 2 SP - 20 EP - 21 CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Weiss, Karin A1 - Rieker, Peter T1 - Ethnicity and conflicts among young refugees in Germany JF - Social Work in Europe KW - Jugendlicher Flüchtling KW - Jugend KW - Kind KW - Heimerziehung KW - Interkulturelle Sozialarbeit Y1 - 1997 SN - 1353-1670 VL - 4 IS - 3 SP - 20 EP - 24 PB - Russell House Publ. CY - Dorset ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Große, Gerlind A1 - Streubel, Berit T1 - Emotion-specific vocabulary and its relation to emotion understanding in children and adolescents JF - Cognition and Emotion N2 - Among children and adolescents, emotion understanding relates to academic achievement and higher well-being. This study investigates the role of general and emotion-specific language skills in children’s and adolescents’ emotion understanding, building on previous research highlighting the significance of domain-specific language skills in conceptual development. We employ a novel inventory (CEVVT) to assess emotion-specific vocabulary. The study involved 10–11-year-old children (N = 29) and 16–17-year-old adolescents (N = 28), examining their emotion recognition and knowledge of emotion regulation strategies. Results highlight the ongoing development of emotion-specific vocabulary across these age groups. Emotion recognition correlated with general vocabulary in the younger group. In the older age group, emotion recognition was related to emotion-specific vocabulary size, but this effect only became apparent when controlling for the depth of emotion-specific vocabulary. Against expectation, there were no significant contributions of general or emotion-specific vocabulary to knowledge of emotion regulation strategies in either age group. These findings enhance our comprehension of the nuanced interplay between language and emotion across developmental stages. KW - Sprachentwicklung KW - Kind KW - Jugend KW - Wortschatz KW - Emotionales Lernen Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2024.2346745 SN - 0269-9931 SN - 1464-0600 VL - 39 IS - 7 SP - 1664 EP - 1673 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kuchinke, Lars A1 - Mattheß, Janna A1 - Eckert, Melanie A1 - Richter, Katharina A1 - Koch, Gabriele A1 - Bindt, Carola A1 - Schweitzer, Julia A1 - Krauskopf, Karsten A1 - Rummel-Kluge, Christine A1 - Theil, Mona Katharina A1 - Galeris, Mirijam-Griseldis A1 - Reinhold, Thomas A1 - Vienhues, Petra A1 - Berghöfer, Anne A1 - Roll, Stephanie A1 - Keil, Thomas A1 - Schlensog-Schuster, Franziska A1 - von Klitzing, Kai A1 - Ludwig-Körner, Christiane T1 - Efficacy of parent-infant psychotherapy with mothers with postpartum mental disorder BT - Results from a randomized controlled trial JF - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health N2 - Background Postpartum maternal mental health problems affect the development of mother-child interaction and of children’s attachment security. Focus-based brief parent-infant psychotherapy (PIP-f) was developed to support parents ‘mentalize’ their child’s affective states and promote a healthy parent-child relationship and child development. Efficacy of PIP-f was evaluated against care-as-usual (CAU) in a randomized controlled trial within the SKKIPPI project. Method N = 120 mothers diagnosed with an ICD-10 psychopathological disorder and their infants under one year were randomly assigned to PIP-f (n = 57) or CAU (n = 63). Primary outcome was maternal sensitivity in mother-child interaction after 6 weeks of intervention. Secondary outcomes include maternal and child psychopathological symptoms, child development, parenting stress, emotional availability, parental reflective functioning and child attachment after 6 weeks and 12 months. Results PIP-f was not superior to CAU in maternal sensitivity (b = 0.129, 95%CI [-0.161, 0.418], p = 0.378) at post-intervention, nor in maternal symptoms (b =-0.702, [-2.603, 1.198], p = 0.463) or child symptoms of regulatory disorder (b = 1.079, [-2.344, 4.502], p = 0.531). Attachment security assessed at 12 months did not differ between intervention groups (OR = 2.0, [0.64, 6.33], p = 0.226). Moderator analyses suggest that emotional availability and parental reflective functioning improve up to 12 months for more severe cases. Conclusion Differences between PIP-f and CAU were smaller than expected, but PIP-f seemed to reduce symptoms of mental health problems. Some evidence exists that mothers with higher symptom burden benefit from PIP-f. High dropout rates and initially high emotional availability prevent generalizability. Trial registration: The trial was registered in the German Register for Clinical Studies (DRKS00016353) on January 16, 2019. KW - Das Mütterliche KW - Kind KW - Kinderpsychotherapie KW - Mutter KW - Psychodynamische Psychotherapie KW - Wochenbettdepression Y1 - 2026 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13034-025-01013-0 SN - 1753-2000 PB - BioMed Central CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Krauskopf, Karsten A1 - Schaffrath, Fine-Marie T1 - Jenseits der Gefängnismauern BT - Ein ökosystemisches Review zu Familienrisiken nach Inhaftierung JF - Gesellschaft – Individuum – Sozialisation : Zeitschrift für Sozialisationsforschung N2 - In der deutschsprachigen Forschung wurde bisher wenig Aufmerksamkeit auf die Auswirkungen der Inhaftierung von Strafgefangenen auf ihre nahen Angehörigen gerichtet. Dieser Beitrag untersucht anhand eines systematischen Literaturreviews mögliche Wirkzusammenhänge. Dafür wurden die Ergebnisse von 40 internationalen und nationalen Studien analysiert und in einem tentativen Rahmenmodell auf vier Wirkungsebenen zusammengefasst: Individuum, Mikro-, Meso- sowie Makro-/Exosystem. Die Ergebnisse, die überwiegend auf Daten aus den USA basieren, deuten auf ein komplexes Zusammenspiel von gesundheitlichen, sozioökonomischen und sozialen Nachteilen für die betroffenen Familien hin. Auch zeigen sich transgenerationale Phänomene. Besonders hervorzuheben sind Bildungsabschlüsse als eine mögliche Puffer- oder Schutzvariable, die negative Auswirkungen abmildern können. Die Analyse diskutiert die Einschränkung der transnationalen Übertragbarkeit der Ergebnisse und die Ursachen-Wirkungs-Beziehungen zwischen Inhaftierung und negativen Folgen für Angehörige. Dabei stellt sich aus sozialisationstheoretischer Sicht die Frage, inwieweit die Inhaftierung selbst oder andere kumulative Risikofaktoren für diese negativen Effekte verantwortlich sind. Insgesamt zeigen sich komplexe Wechselwirkungen. KW - Festnahme KW - Familienstruktur KW - Entwicklung KW - Kind Y1 - 2025 U6 - https://doi.org/10.26043/GISo.2025.1.4 SN - 2673-4664 VL - 6 IS - 1 PB - Universität Zürich CY - Zürich ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ludwig-Körner, Christine T1 - Therapie und Beratung mit Eltern und Säuglingen JF - Frühe Kindheit : Zeitschrift der Deutschen Liga für das Kind N2 - Eltern-Kind-Beratung fordert eine hohe Kompetenz des Beraters. Er sollte über ein breites entwicklungspsychologisches und methodisches Wissen verfügen, sollte fachliche Kompetenz als Berater und als Psychotherapeut besitzen. Er sollte fähig sein zu differentiellen Entscheidungen, d.h., er sollte möglichst im Idealfall schon in der ersten Sitzung erkennen können, ob es sich z.B. um eine entwicklungspsychologische Fragestellung handelt und eine „präventive“ Beratungsarbeit indiziert ist, ob reaktualisierte Konflikte der Eltern erkennbar werden oder gar eine psychische Fehlentwicklung wirksam wurde, deren Bearbeitung eine Erwachsenentherapie erforderlich macht. Zweifellos liegt hier eine Aufgabe für die beteiligten Fachverbände (GAIM und Liga), Ausbildungsstandards festzulegen und durchzusetzen. Denn die sich abzeichnende Tendenz, zukünftig mit möglichst geringem Aufwand viele Eltern-Säuglingsberater im Schnellverfahren auszubilden, düfte weder der Sache noch den beteiligten Personen wirklich gerecht werden können. KW - Kind KW - Säugling KW - Eltern KW - Beratung KW - Beratungsstelle Y1 - 1999 UR - https://www.liga-kind.de/fk-199-ludwig-koerner/ SN - 1435-4705 IS - 1 SP - 24 EP - 27 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ludwig-Körner, Christiane T1 - Effects of severly disturbed parents on early parent-infant-interaction JF - International Forum of Psychoanalysis KW - Eltern KW - Kind KW - Schlafstörung KW - Beratungsstelle KW - Säugling Y1 - 1999 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/080370699436519 SN - 0803-706X VL - 8 IS - 1 SP - 25 EP - 31 PB - Stockholm CY - Taylor & Francis ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Saji, Noburo A1 - Saalbach, Henrik A1 - Große, Gerlind A1 - Schulze, Cornelia A1 - Imai, Mutsumi T1 - Cross-linguistic comparison of color word learning in German and Japanese children shows universal and language-specific processes JF - Scientific reports N2 - This study examines how German- and Japanese-speaking children acquire the meanings of color words, focusing on two theoretically distinct processes: centroid mapping and boundary delineation. While previous cross-linguistic studies have typically addressed these aspects in isolation, this paper explicitly investigates both processes simultaneously, assessing language-specific and perceptual factors contributing to lexical acquisition. Using previously collected Japanese data (re-analyzed here for comparative purposes) and newly collected German data, we explore how input frequency, naming inconsistency, category size, and perceptual saliency influence these processes. Our findings show that centroid mapping in both languages is primarily shaped by input frequency, that is, children learn prototypical meanings by hearing the respective color words often. In contrast, boundary delineation is predicted by naming consistency in adult speakers, that is, children’s differentiation of color categories is based on the consistency with which adults refer to the same color with the same word. The structural characteristics of each language’s lexicon affect these qualitative aspects, highlighting an interplay between perceptual constraints and language-specific lexical structures. This comparative approach provides novel insights into lexical and conceptual development, contributing to broader theoretical debates on continuity and discontinuity in semantic acquisition and informing computational models of lexical development. KW - Deutsch KW - Japanisch KW - Spracherwerb KW - Kind Y1 - 2025 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-23286-3 SN - 2045-2322 VL - 15 PB - Springer Nature CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lindner, Nadja A1 - Moeller, Korbinian A1 - Hildebrandt, Frauke A1 - Hasselhorn, Marcus A1 - Lonnemann, Jan T1 - Training children’s spatial language skills improves their numerical magnitude understanding JF - Learning and Instruction : The journal of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) N2 - Background There is accumulating evidence suggesting that spatial language skills are associated with early numerical development (i.e., verbal number skills and numerical magnitude understanding). However, intervention studies allowing for a causal interpretation of this association are largely missing. Aims Therefore, we aimed at investigating the effects of training children's spatial language skills on the development of basic numerical skills. Sample The intervention group comprised n = 54 and the non-trained control group n = 72 4-6-year-old children (Mage = 60.58 months). Methods In a pre-post-test control group design small groups of four to eight children were trained six times (mostly twice a week) for about 20 min each. The training focused on production and comprehension of the spatial terms in front of, behind, to the left, and to the right with effects on numerical magnitude understanding and verbal number skills being evaluated. Results Comparing training and control group on performance gains between pre- and post-test revealed significantly higher gains for the intervention group in spatial language production and comprehension as well as numerical magnitude understanding, but not verbal number skills. Conclusion These findings provide first evidence for a causal link between children's spatial language skills and the development of their numerical magnitude understanding. This highlights the relevance of mastering specific spatial language terms for children's early numerical development. KW - Spracherwerb KW - Kind KW - Studie Y1 - 2025 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2025.102191 SN - 0959-4752 SN - 1873-3263 VL - 99 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER -