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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Preschool age children"”.
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Japanese Mothers' Parenting Styles with Preschool-Age Children
… The participants were 214 Japanese mothers of preschool-age children (101 boys and 113 girls) from several preschools in Kushiro-city, Japan. A series of two-group (boys and girls) Confirmatory Factor Analysis was carried out with Mplus statistical software to test the measurement models of …
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Family context and executive functioning in preschool-age children
… the development of executive functions in young children. To address this gap, the current study explored how aspects of family context are associated with executive performance in a sample of preschool-age children. Specifically, the study examined how executive functioning in early childhood …
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Interactions Among Italian Preschool-Age Children: Aggression, Victimization, and Sociometric Status
… examined social interactions between Italian preschoolers based upon sociometric status groupings. The sample consisted of 267 Italian preschoolers (mean age 64 months) taken from early childhood classrooms in southern Italy. Drawing on previous research, preschoolers' physical and relational …
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Probing the Probabilistic Reasoning and Belief Change Abilities of Preschool-Age Children
… development has challenged the assumption that children are passive participants in their own learning. Far from ‘passive sponges’, children are active participants in their learning process who select sources of evidence, actively weigh the strength and validity of the evidence they glean, and …
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Measuring early literacy behaviors: preschool-age children and first-generation Mexican immigrant parents
… literacy, not to raise test scores of very young children. Capturing valid data on parent strengths could assist in comparing information from child development measures for deeper diagnostic and program improvement purposes. Parent behaviors influence children's later school success. Often the …
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A Detailed Examination of TO-infinitive Development in Typically Developing Preschool-age Children
… omission errors in typically developing children between the ages of 3;0 and 4;11 (years; months).</p> <p>Method. The current study utilized 1294 language transcripts from the CHILDES database. TO-infinitive development and TO-particle omissions were examined at the sentence structure …
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Effects of Video Modeling and Visual Feedback on Handwashing in Preschool-Age Children
Young children who attend out-of-home care (e.g., preschool and daycare) are more susceptible to infections than children who do not attend out-of-home care (Bylinsky, 1994). Previous research suggests handwashing is effective in reducing risk of infection and illness (Larson, 1988). However, …
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Facilitating multisyllabic productions with a hybrid treatment approach in three preschool-age children
… to facilitate multisyllabic productions in three preschool-age children who were at the single-word stage of development. Key to this design was the selection of thirty multisyllabic targets: 15 treatment and 15 control that were matched based on semantic category and phonetic complexity. Overall, …
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Context-based functional assessment and intervention for preschool-age children with problem behaviors in childcare
… that influenced the problem behaviors of four preschool age children in a childcare center, and the effects of intervention programs which were developed based on the assessment results were evaluated. Generality to non-targeted situations and children was also investigated. In addition, …
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Synthesized speech intelligibility and preschool age children: comparing accuracy for single word repetition with repeated exposure.
… speech voices and human recorded speech in preschool age children. Methods: Eighteen preschool aged participants listened to and repeated single words presented in human recorded speech, DECtalk™ Paul and AT & T Voice ™ Michael during five experimental sessions. Stimuli consisted of repeated …
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Prevention of Spinal Deformities in Preschool-Age Children /// Профилактика на гръбначните изкривявания при деца в предучилищна възраст
… disorders are common conditions among children and are usually caused by the long-term effects of poor posture. The purpose of this study is to examine the measures for prevention of spinal deformities and to evaluate the effects of the application of remedial gymnastics to improve the …
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Child life-directed versus parent-directed distraction to reduce pain and distress during an immunization in preschool age children
… regard to the reduction of pain and anxiety in preschool age patients receiving an immunization. Additionally, this research examined whether during a simple immunization the caregiver's anxiety affected the child's anxiety. The study assessed 36 children who ranged in age from four to five …
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Individual genetic variations of eight SNPs associated with risk of obesity in preschool age children from STRONG Kids Program
… excessive weight gain and obesity development in preschool-age children based on the ecological framework of the six Cs’ model. Increased food intake, which is one of the critical factors leading to the onset of obesity has been strongly associated with genetic predisposition. Variations in genes …
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An Analysis of Training, Generalization, and Maintenance Effects of Enhanced Primary Care Triple P for Parents of Preschool-Age Children with Disruptive Behavior
A brief primary care intervention for parents of preschool-age children with disruptive behavior, Primary Care Triple P (PCTP), was assessed using a multiple probe design. PCTP teaches parents procedures such as praise, modeling, incidental teaching, differential rein-forcement, time-out, planned …
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Mitigating Risk for Anxiety Among Preschool-Age Children Living in Poverty: Evaluating the Impact of Adult-Provided Social Support on Autonomic Stress Reactivity
<p>Poverty increases children's exposure to stress, elevating their risk for developing patterns of heightened sympathetic and parasympathetic stress reactivity. Repeated patterns of high sympathetic activation and parasympathetic withdrawal place children at risk for anxiety disorders. This study …
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Effects of Intimate Partner Violence on Maternal Reflective Functioning and Attachment Relationship in Hispanic/Latina Women and Their Preschool-Age Children: A Qualitative Study
… functioning and maternal response to very young children is crucial to our understanding and provision of appropriate treatment. This qualitative study used a transcendental phenomenological approach designed to analyze the in-depth interview responses of ten Hispanic/Latina mothers of …
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A Qualitative Examination of the Maternal Racial Socialization of African American Preschool Children
… unfolds in families with very young children. This study investigated how African American mothers of preschool-age children approached the process of racial socialization. I interviewed African American mothers who were at least age 18 (N=12) with biological children between the ages …
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