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Potassium in young children
Potassium i.s one of the major constituents of the human body but its role in metabolism is not clearly defined. One reason for this is the predominant intracellular distribution of the ion and the attendant difficulties in the detection of deficiency states. Serum potassium levels are of little …
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Hand injuries in young children.
The proportion of hand injuries in Swedish children is the second highest in relation to other parts of the body. The incidence of hand injuries in these children has not yet been estimated. In addition, aetiologies, injury patterns and costs among Swedish children have not been presented on a …
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Discussing Death with Young Children
<p>Research has shown that young children have some understandings of death. However, adults are hesitant (or even avoidant) to discuss death with young children for fear that they will scare them, or they are not sure what to tell them. Sessions were part of this project, educating adults in a …
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The spiritual life of young children
… a greater focus on the spiritual dimension of children’s lives and a surge of interest in holistic education. But what is spirituality? And how do children express their spiritual being? Spirituality has been described as ‘a fuzzy concept’. This dissertation seeks to explore the various …
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Capturing reading strategies in young children
Traditional models of children’s reading, based on fixed invariant stages, have proved less than adequate in explaining the flexibility in which children approach the task of learning to read. One way to examine emergent reading is to focus on the child’s strategy use as a discrete measure of early …
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Physical literacy assessment amongst young children
… physical literacy assessment tool for use in young children, aged 5-7 years old. Study One (Chapter Three) was a narrative review which aimed to clarify similarities, differences, and potential causes of contention across prominent international perspectives of physical literacy. It was …
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Teachers' Perceptions of Leadership in Young Children
… potentially influence leadership behaviors in children aged 4 to 6 years. One hundred thirty-three early childhood teachers and teachers of the gifted were surveyed using a researcher-designed instrument called the <em>Recognizing Leadership</em> <em>in Children (RLIC) Survey</em> to assess if …
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Drawing the User Experience of Young Children
… a method for evaluating the User Experience of young children (age 3-6). This method is not new in Child-Computer Interaction, but few studies have investigated it with young children in the kindergarten. This thesis analyses data collected in two case studies. A first longitudinal study, …
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Predictors of Developmental Screenings for Young Children
… examines the usefulness of the New Model of Children's Health and its Influences for the identification of predictors for health service effectiveness. Health service effectiveness is measured by probability estimations of whether young children receive formal or informal developmental …
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Speech-enabled application development for young children
… activities in the educational development of young children which require them to speak aloud to a parent or teacher. High pupil-teacher ratios and modem lifestyles limit the time available for one-to-one interaction so the benefits of enabling a computer to assist in this area are …
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Perspectives on mathematics education for young children
… groups’ views on mathematics education for young children. These groups included (a) mathematicians, (b) teacher educators, (c) cognitive/developmental psychologists who study young children’s mathematics learning, and (d) preschool and kindergarten teachers. Both similarities and …
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Images and perspectives : young children and digital photography
… explores the use of digital photography by young children as a visual language for expressing their views regarding the outdoor environment. It was carried out in a licensed daycare setting with a group of twenty-one 2-4 year old children. A qualitative multi-method design was used, based on …
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Transitions in life of mothers of young children
… of turning points in life, among mothers of young children.
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The Acquisition of Interactional Chains by Young Children
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T21:07:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7212385.pdf: 2673876 bytes, checksum: f95b5d146803c4ca9294ed7ad2c00deb (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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Relational mapping in symbolic tasks by young children
… most important developmental challenges facing young children is the mastery of numerous symbol systems. One way in which we use symbols is as a source of information about their referents. This requires (1) an appreciation of the higher-order symbol-referent relation (i.e., that the symbol …
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Usability of Pictorial Assembly Instructions for Young Children
… on assembly performance and self-efficacy in young children. The mixed-method usability study evaluated the effect of gender, age, toy, and experience on assembly performance, frequency and duration of instruction looks, subjective evaluations, and usability problems. A total of twenty-four …
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Effects of Language Shift on Families and Young Children
… seeks to investigate what effects there are on children from non-English families when these families make decisions about the language use in their homes. These decisions may be intentional or be a result of situations that evolve over time. Nevertheless young children in the home will be …
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Maternal teaching strategies and cognitive tempo in young children
… cognitive tempo (reflection-impulsivity) in children and specific labeling and focusing behaviors of mothers as they taught their children two problem-solving tasks. Two measures of cognitive tempo were administered to 44 preschool children, ages 46 to 67 months. The children and their …
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