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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Hispanic children"”.
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Standardization of Oral Cloze as a Language Assessment Device for Bilingual Hispanic Children
… procedures as a language screening for bilingual Hispanic students. If such a procedure were normed, and proven to be both reliable and valid, the resultant assessment device would have potential screening tool as a for determining the presence of a language disorder in the bilingual Hispanic …
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Effects of pesticides on the cognitive and behavioral functioning of Hispanic children in agricultural areas
… (OP) pesticides have the potential to harm children's health by interfering with central nervous system functioning. The purpose of this study was to investigate how exposure to pesticides affects children's cognitive and behavioral functioning. Two groups of children were studied: Exposed …
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The natural history of sleep disordered breathing in 6-11 year old Caucasian and Hispanic children
… recognized as an important cause of morbidity in children. Clinical symptoms of OSAS in children include snoring, nocturnal arousals, restlessness during sleep, enuresis, daytime sleepiness and hyperactivity. Evidence also suggests that the adverse effects of SDB include behavioral, learning, and …
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Developmental Trajectories of Physical Aggression in Low-Income African American and Hispanic Children: Relations to Household Risk and Child Inhibitory Control
… aggression in low-income African American and Hispanic preschoolers as they transitioned to primary school. Three developmental trajectories were expected to be identified in the data: a low physical aggression group, a group that begins higher in physical aggression that the low group but …
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Effects of Culturally Responsive Child-centered Play Therapy Compared to Curriculum-based Small Group Counseling with Elementary-age Hispanic Children Experiencing Externalizing and Internalizing Behavior Problems: a Preliminary Study.
… intervention as a school-based intervention for Hispanic children experiencing behavioral problems that place them at risk for academic failure. Specifically, this study measured the effects of the experimental play therapy treatment, compared to Kids' Connection, on reducing Externalizing and …
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Case study of Hispanic students' physical education experiences
Abstract Hispanic children and youth have higher rates of obesity and are less physically active than their Caucasian peers. Although there is an evident need to promote physically active lifestyle among this population and school physical education has been identified as one of the venues to do …
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Parental perceptions of childhood weight status in preschool children
… years, was obtained from Women, Infant's and Children (WIC) clinics in a Southwestern city, after informed consent was obtained. The sample had a high number of Hispanics (80%) compared to non-Hispanics (20%). It was found that overall parents perceive their child's weight accurately. No …
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Acculturation Level, Generational Status and Gender: Their Role in Acculturative Stress in Young Adolescent Mexican Americans
… and Environmental Acculturative Stress Scale-Children's Version (SAFE-C). Subjects included 1268 Hispanic children ages 11-15. In order to validate the usefulness of the ARSMA-II with this sample, analyses were conducted between acculturation level and generational status. The Pearson product …
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Beyond computation in mathematics: An instructional study with third-grade bilingual Mexican American students
… problems) of elementary school-age bilingual Hispanic children.
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Factors Influencing the English Reading Test Performance of Spanish-English Bilingual Children
… reading test performance of 51 Spanish-speaking Hispanic children at the fifth- and sixth-grade levels as compared to that of 53 Anglo children enrolled in the same classrooms. The role of reading tests in the assessment and placement of children makes it important to understand what such tests …
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Opportunities and obstacles in bilingual reading
… strategic reading processes of eight bilingual Hispanic children who are good English readers. For comparative purposes, a smaller sample of good monolingual Anglo readers and of poor bilingual Hispanic readers is also included. The major objective of this study was to answer the question of how …
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Growth patterns of hispanic and caucasian children
Growth of children is a powerful indicator of general health used in clinical evaluations. No studies have examined the growth of Hispanic children under 2 years of age and compared the growth with Caucasian children of the same population. Breast-feeding and its impact on growth in children under …
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Myelomeningocele and the Neuropsychological Functioning of Bilingual Children
… the brain and spinal cord of millions of children. Children of Hispanic background have the highest prevalence rate of this condition. Despite this fact, research that examines the cognitive profiles of Hispanic children with myelomeningocele is limited. A review on bilingualism and …
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Informing Parents and Educators about the importance of preschool for English Language Learners: A Guideline
… for their kindergarten experience. Many Hispanic families are hesitant in putting their child in the care of someone who is not a family member, which then puts these children behind others who had an academic experience in pre-kindergarten. This not only brings the Hispanic children down …
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AN URBAN BIOETHICS APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING DISPARITIES IN NEURODEVELOPMENTAL OUTCOMES FOR CHILDREN WITH CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE
… have improved over the last several decades, non-Hispanic black and Hispanic children continue to experience a disproportionate burden of CHD. An urban bioethics approach to disparities in cardiac neurodevelopmental outcomes necessitates an examination of the context, setting, and structures in …
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Acculturative Processes and Their Impact on Self-Reports of Psychological Distress in Mexican-American Adolescents
… on the self-report of behavioral problems in Hispanic children ages 11-14. Acculturation was measured by the Acculturation Rating Scale for Mexican Americans-II (ARSMA-II) (ã Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, www.sagepub.com) (Cuellar, Arnold, and Maldonado, 1995) and the self-report of …
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