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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"early child development"”.
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Essays on the Social and Parental Determinants of Early Child Development
… conditions, such as home, language, and child care environments. Chapter one explains the importance of research in inequality in early human capital. The consequence of this disparity includes gaps in skills, education, employment, and earning. In addition, this chapter highlights how …
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The Albanian Cycle of Victimisation: Exploring the Pathways Between Maternal Exposure to Violence and Early Child Development
… most research on families, parenting, and child development has been conducted in Western societies. Objectives: This study presents novel data on maternal exposure to violence, wellbeing, maternal parenting practices, and child development in Tirana, Albania. The dissertation specifically …
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Information-seeking behaviour of grade R practitioners in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality
… by these practitioners when seeking information. Early Child Development practitioners need information to increase their knowledge for optimum performance of their duties. Literature points to a possibility that if the Grade R practitioners can have access to relevant, accurate and timeous …
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Investigating the intention of pregnancy among women living with HIV and its effect on the early development of their HIV exposed infants
… ART, including through prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programmes in Africa, has resulted in the reduction of vertical transmission, which has led to >95% of infants born to women living with HIV (WLHIV) in South Africa being born HIV uninfected. Concerns have however been …
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Establishing Children Community Library and Resource Center at Kahawa Estate, Kiambu County
Early Child Development (ECD) learning is a basic foundation that prepares children for primary school, globally embraced as part of Universal Education for every child. Kenya recognizes education for every child within educational and sustainable development policies such as Vision 2030. Although …
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Embedding Sensory Preferences into Toys to Enhance Toy Play in Toddlers with Disabilities
… engagement has long been considered important in early child development (Messer, Rachford, McCarthy, & Yarrow, 1987; Wolery & Werts, 1994). However, children with highly significant disabilities often engage in toy play less frequently than their peers without disabilities (Blasco, Bailey, & …
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A study of outdoor environments for young children: re-envisioning the child development laboratories at UIUC
… of the outdoor environments in young children’s physical, cognitive, social and emotional development has been affirmed for a long time, there is an obvious decline in contemporary children’s daily outdoor experiences. In respond to this trend, traditional research focuses on the …
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Responsive parenting in Hong Kong: an evaluation study of OneSky’s parent training pogram for at-risk families
Supporting early child development persists as a global challenge, with many children failing to reach their developmental potential, especially in high-risk communities. One solution to address this problem is to implement responsive parenting programs, as parents play an active role in shaping …
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Examining trajectories of maternal depressive symptoms in relation to infant affect expression
… cognitive, behavioral, and affective problems in children. One area of clinical significance is the effect of maternal depression across time, including the differential effects of depression on early child development during the transition to motherhood. The present study explored trajectories of …
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Psychometric Evaluation of the Nursing Child Assessment Teaching (NCAT) Scale in Two Samples of Mothers and Children
<p>The mother-child relationship (MCR) has received an increasing amount of attention over the last several decades regarding its effect on long-term child development. Because the quality and quantity of interactions in the MCR have been established as important predictors of the child’s …
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Automatic vocal recognition of a child's perceived emotional state within the Speechome corpus
… 230,000 hours of audio/video recordings of a child growing up in the home setting from birth to the age of three, the Human Speechome Project has pioneered a comprehensive, ecologically valid observational dataset that introduces far-reaching new possibilities for the study of child …
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Challenges facing the recipients of the child support grant in the Umhlathuze Municipality
… the challenges facing the recipients of child support grant with special reference to uMhlathuze District Municipality. The government in its efforts to alleviate poverty, to the previously disadvantaged and vulnerable segments of our communities introduced several poverty alleviation …
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Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) in Two Communities in Tijuana, Mexico: maternal and household characteristics and pediatric development
… To describe the proportion of children 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 …
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The labors of Hercules: embodied learning and male domestication in early modern culture and literature
… and academic conservatism of the early sixteenth century, Erasmus, in his lengthy commentary on “The Labors of Hercules” adage, attempts to justify his thankless and debilitating scholarly work by analogizing it to the labors of the mythic Greco-Roman strongman. My dissertation …
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Essays on Noncognitive Skills
… the role of noncognitive skills at different developmental stages; first, I study the formation of noncognitive skills in early childhood and, second, I examine the effect of noncognitive skills on the gender wage gap during mid- and late- adulthood. In the first chapter I propose a novel …
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Maternal Exposure to Violence and Child Malnutrition in LMICs: A Cross-Sectional, Population-Based Study in Conflict-Affected Northern Uganda
Maternal Exposure to Violence and Child Malnutrition in LMICs: A Cross-Sectional, Population-Based Study in Conflict-Affected Northern Uganda Background: Violence against women by an intimate partner is a serious human rights and public health concern, especially in low-and-middle-income countries …