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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"developmental milestones"”.
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Achievement Of Developmental Milestones Among Salvadorian Orphans
… previous research indicate, many will not meet developmental milestones that could be remediated with research and development. The purpose of this study was to determine milestone achievement and environmental impact among Salvadorian orphans at selected sites, in order to make recommendations …
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Timing of Sexual Minority Identity Developmental Milestones and Well-Being among Three Generations of Gay Men
… suggests that these shifts may create a “developmental collision” for younger generations (Meyer et al., 2021; Russell & Fish, 2019). Younger generations of sexual minorities “come out” and reach other sexual identity milestones earlier than older generations, and earlier timing of sexual …
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Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) in Two Communities in Tijuana, Mexico: maternal and household characteristics and pediatric development
… overall and in each study arm who attain developmental milestones in two rural peri-urban communities in Tijuana, Mexico. To compare the specific proportions of milestone attainment in this region to an international standard comparison group. To describe baseline household and maternal …
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Developmental Psychopathology in Children with Williams Syndrome
… in cognitive ability and attainment of developmental milestones in children with WS. Four experimental studies have been conducted involving a total number of 74 children between the ages of few months to the age of 18 years. Study 1 investigated the effect of deletion size in the …
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Emerging Adults and Chronic Pain: Exploring the Impact of Chronic Pain on Emerging Adults and their Ability to Adapt
… to emerging adults as they work to achieve developmental milestones such as identity formation and relationship building. As physical and mental health often begin to decline, it is increasingly important for positive forms of adaptation remain imminent to reduce anxiety and restore …
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Determinants of parent-child interaction in adolescent mothers
… Maternal variables are: general knowledge of developmental milestones, accuracy of knowledge of one's own child's development, locus of control, self-efficacy, and age. Accuracy of knowledge of one's own child's development was found to be the most significant predictor of the quality of …
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Individual Differences in Physiology, Behavior, and Temperament Over the First 15 Months of Life
… in newborn physiology and behavior and 15-month developmental outcome was investigated. Forty-four healthy infants who had participated in a newborn study of physiological correlates of behavior were again tested at 15 months. During the newborn assessment, ten minutes of heart rate pattern and …
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Nesting Ecology Of Red-Headed Woodpeckers (Melanerpes Erythrocephalus) In Central Minnesota
… and timing of brood reduction, and detailing developmental milestones of Red-headed Woodpeckers in central Minnesota. Using a cavity camera, I monitored 61 nests throughout the nesting cycle in 2014 and 2015 and estimated nest success (from initiation to fledging) was 78.0% with logistic …
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Crawling Pattern Movement Effects on Fine Motor Skills among Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
… Disorders (ASD) have a lag when it comes to developmental milestones. More specifically, children who have been diagnosed within the ASD show a lack in fine motor skills when compared to the general population. The purpose of this project was to test the effects of a crawling program on the …
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Unmasking the Institutionalization of Gender-based Violence in Ontario’s Kindergarten Education Program: The Hidden Effects of Play-based Learning
… work in kindergarten is to involve attaining developmental milestones and learning academic skills through play. However, play at school is rife with unequal gendered power dynamics. Through an institutional ethnography (Smith, 1987) carried out in two Toronto kindergarten classrooms, I …
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The Effects of Amphetamine Exposure on Neurodevelopment and Behavior in Early Life Stages of Danio Rerio
… organism because of the extensively studied developmental milestones these fish provide. Using escape responses as a behavior model, we exposed embryos to three doses of amphetamine (10 μg/ml, 20 μg/ml, and 30 μg/ml) environmentally during the first 48 hours of development and used high-speed …
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Examining the Validity of the Preschool Kitchen Task Assessment
… may be a useful ecologically valid assessment of developmental milestones in preschoolers.</p>
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Histochemical and biochemical changes in human muscle following 17 days of unilateral lower limb suspension
… medical problems, and were more likely to reach developmental milestones with delays.Stepwise discriminant analysis also revealed the Attention Problems and Hyperactivity scales of the BASC-PRS were most significant in differentiating between the ADHD and Non-ADHD subjects. Using the BASC-PRS …
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Developmental Trajectories of Preschooler's Goal-Based, Emotion-Based, and Costly Helping and the Role of Prosocial Emotions
… numerous cross-sectional studies examining the developmental trajectories of helping behaviour in early childhood, few studies have applied a longitudinal lens and investigated the emotional motivators underling helping. The studies in this thesis address these gaps in the literature by …
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Teachers’ knowledge of their learners’ psychological well-being at a special school In Uthungulu District
… influence how each learner relates and adapts to developmental milestones, cognitive & language development and psychological well-being. It should then be emphasised that every teacher, especially those who deal with learners with disabilities, needs assistance or information that will help them …
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Beats Per Minute: Exploring The Impact Of Violence And Neighborhood Conditions On Adolescents In Philadelphia Neighborhoods
… represent unique traumas that disrupt developmental milestones and have long-term health consequences, such as increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Research on the impacts of both violence and adverse neighborhood conditions has primarily been quantitative and has relied on …
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Contextual Insights into the Rett Syndrome Transcriptome
… neurological disorder characterized by loss of developmental milestones, intellectual disability and motor impairments. However, molecular insight into how these mutations affect the neuronal transcriptiome, disrupt neuronal function and contribute to RTT is impeded by the cellular heterogeneity …
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A Program Evaluation of the Welcome Baby Project: A Primary Prevention Program for Teenage Mothers and Their Infants
… of the Environment (HOME). The Battelle Developmental Inventory - Screening Test (BDI) was used to assess infant development. WBP mothers and Home Visitors were asked to evaluate the program.</p> <p>The groups differed on important variables associated with high risk status; the greater …
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Developing robust statistical scoring methods for use in child assessment tools
Timely and accurate diagnosis of developmental disability reduces its detrimental effect on children. Most of the current scoring methods do not appropriately remove the effect of age on development scores. This frustrates both disability status classification and comparison of scores across …
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Factors affecting parental disclosure of HIV status to HIV-Positive children and adolescents
… to children should be based on age groups or developmental milestones, increased attention to training in counselling and development of simplified tools for developmental assessments by primary health care workers is necessary.
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