Kerttu Huttunen
Biographic Data
| ID | 7519106 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kerttu Huttunen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kerttu |
| FAMILY NAME | Huttunen |
| SIGNATURE | HUTTUNEN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oulu |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4790-8801 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ecec educators’ Attitudes and Perceptions Toward and Supportive Role in children’s Digital Gameplay
Today, digital games are considered important tools for learning, but using them in early childhood education and care (ECEC) has raised the question of educators’ roles when children play an educational digital game. The aim of this study was to explore how ECEC educators differed in their attitudes and perceptions toward and ways of supporting children’s digital gameplay and how these differences were associated with children’s gameplay. The da…
Serious game the Emotion Detectives helps to improve social–emotional skills of children with neurodevelopmental disorders
Children with neurodevelopmental disorders often have social–emotional difficulties. Serious games can be used to support their social–emotional learning. This study investigated if 6–10‐year‐old children with autism spectrum condition, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and developmental language disorder would improve their emotion discrimination skills by playing a serious game. Intervention ( n = 30) and control groups ( n = 20), compri…
Use of pointing in parent-child interactions by hearing children of deaf and hearing parents
Pointing plays a significant role in communication and language development. However, in spoken languages pointing has been viewed as a non-verbal gesture, whereas in sign languages, pointing is regarded to represent a linguistic unit of language. This study compared the use of pointing between seven bilingual hearing children of deaf parents (Kids of Deaf Adults [KODAs]) interacting with their deaf parents and five hearing children interacting w…
Relationship Between the Linguistic Environments and Early Bilingual Language Development of Hearing Children in Deaf-parented Families
We explored variation in the linguistic environments of hearing children of Deaf parents and how it was associated with their early bilingual language development. For that purpose we followed up the children's productive vocabulary (measured with the MCDI; MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory) and syntactic complexity (measured with the MLU10; mean length of the 10 longest utterances the child produced during videorecorded play sessions…
The Changing Role of Gesture in Linguistic Development
Parents' Views on Changes in Their Child's Communication and Linguistic and Socioemotional Development After Cochlear Implantation
Our aim was to obtain versatile information on the communication and socioemotional development of implanted children in their everyday environment. We studied 18 children implanted unilaterally at the mean age of 3 years 4 months. All had normal nonverbal intelligence, but 8 (44%) had concomitant problems. Their parents filled out semistructured questionnaires at 6 months and then annually 1-5 years after activation. Parents reported a change fr…
Parents' Views on Changes in Their Child's Communication and Linguistic and Socioemotional Development After Cochlear Implantation
Our aim was to obtain versatile information on the communication and socioemotional development of implanted children in their everyday environment. We studied 18 children implanted unilaterally at the mean age of 3 years 4 months. All had normal nonverbal intelligence, but 8 (44%) had concomitant problems. Their parents filled out semistructured questionnaires at 6 months and then annually 1-5 years after activation. Parents reported a change fr…
Relationship Between the Linguistic Environments and Early Bilingual Language Development of Hearing Children in Deaf-parented Families
We explored variation in the linguistic environments of hearing children of Deaf parents and how it was associated with their early bilingual language development. For that purpose we followed up the children's productive vocabulary (measured with the MCDI; MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory) and syntactic complexity (measured with the MLU10; mean length of the 10 longest utterances the child produced during videorecorded play sessions…
The Changing Role of Gesture in Linguistic Development
Serious game the Emotion Detectives helps to improve social–emotional skills of children with neurodevelopmental disorders
Children with neurodevelopmental disorders often have social–emotional difficulties. Serious games can be used to support their social–emotional learning. This study investigated if 6–10‐year‐old children with autism spectrum condition, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and developmental language disorder would improve their emotion discrimination skills by playing a serious game. Intervention ( n = 30) and control groups ( n = 20), compri…
Use of pointing in parent-child interactions by hearing children of deaf and hearing parents
Pointing plays a significant role in communication and language development. However, in spoken languages pointing has been viewed as a non-verbal gesture, whereas in sign languages, pointing is regarded to represent a linguistic unit of language. This study compared the use of pointing between seven bilingual hearing children of deaf parents (Kids of Deaf Adults [KODAs]) interacting with their deaf parents and five hearing children interacting w…
Ecec educators’ Attitudes and Perceptions Toward and Supportive Role in children’s Digital Gameplay
Today, digital games are considered important tools for learning, but using them in early childhood education and care (ECEC) has raised the question of educators’ roles when children play an educational digital game. The aim of this study was to explore how ECEC educators differed in their attitudes and perceptions toward and ways of supporting children’s digital gameplay and how these differences were associated with children’s gameplay. The da…
Developmental psychology (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Hearing Impairment and Communication (4 works) · Language development (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 works) · Spoken language (3 works) · American Sign Language (2 works) · Audiology (2 works) · Child Development and Digital Technology (2 works)