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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"very young children"”.
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A study of the normal and pathological intestinal flora of infants and very young children
… obtaining in the intestine of infants and young children, in health, and when suffering from diarrhoea. The healthy children have been divided into classes according to the nature of the feeding -- breast fed children, bottle fed children, and children on a mixed. diet. The flora of the …
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An investigation of the reliability and validity of the Grover developmental charts for very young children
… validity of the Grover Developmental Charts for very young children between 10 and 36 months was carried out. A total of 108 white, English speaking children of both sexes, were selected from crèches and private homes in the Cape Peninsula. The subjects were tested on the Grover Developmental …
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The development of an English Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) measure for very young children, to be completed by proxy
… a valid and reliable, HRQoL instrument for children from 1 month to 3 years old, amenable to the elicitation of preference weights. Methods: The new HRQoL instrument, HRQoL-6D-IT, was based firstly on a mapping review of HRQoL measures for children. The next stage involved eliciting options …
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Educational intervention programmes for very young children : an overview, with specific reference to the home early learning programme of the Athlone Early Learning Centre
The concept of educational intervention for very young children is discussed from the standpoint of ethical implications, practical implementation and effectiveness. Specific programmes are described as background to the Home Early Learning Programme and the Creche Programme of the Athlone Early …
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Understanding the Effects of Virtual Education on Kindergarten Children and the Relationships between Teachers, Parents, and Children During a Global Pandemic
… dramatically altered learning experiences for children, parents, and teachers worldwide. For very young children, the scrambled introduction of complex virtual tools as a proxy for the classroom experience has been particularly challenging. I conducted interviews with kindergarten teachers and …
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Formative evaluation of the Thinktwice school-based lifeskills programme for the prevention of child sexual abuse
… There are reports of child sexual abuse of very young children in the media on an almost daily basis. South African Police Services reports show that children are victims in almost 50 of all reported cases of indecent assault and rape. It is well reported that only a fraction of sexual …
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The role of mental representations of order in mathematical cognition: a developmental approach
… ordinal sequences that are familiar toeven very young children, such as the order of familiar everyday tasks andfamiliar daily events. </p><p class="MsoNormal"> The current thesis attempted to address the question ofwhether order-processing skills were predictive of maths achievement during …
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The impact of closed-loop insulin delivery on glucose control in children and young people with type 1 diabetes mellitus: Longer-term benefits across the paediatric age-spectrum
… technology use to manage type 1 diabetes, most children struggle to meet treatment guidelines for target glycated haemoglobin levels. Closed-loop insulin delivery systems, consisting of glucose sensor, insulin pump and an algorithm automatically adjusting insulin delivery in response to …
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Young Children's Use of Dolls to Represent Themselves
In six studies reported here, children were asked to use the location of a sticker on one person or representation to guide their placement of a similar sticker in the corresponding location on another person or representation. This task allows for investigation of children's ability with the …
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The effectiveness of video self-modeling to teach play and adaptive skills to a young preschooler with developmental disabilities
… to teach play and communication skills to children with autism over age 4. Research has demonstrated a need to evaluate the effectiveness of VSM with younger children, as well as to assess which types of behaviors/skills can be taught through VSM. Two videos were recorded and edited to …
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An investigation of the relationships among physical and emotional learning style preferences and perceptual modality strengths of gifted first grade students
… has been conducted on the learning styles of very young children and on the planning of specific instructional strategies to incorporate those styles. This is especially true regarding the learning styles of gifted primary grade students. Incorporating learning style information into the …
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Design, implementation and evaluation of the impact of a body image professional development program for early childhood educators
… arise during puberty, though it is now reported children as young as three years of age present with such problems. Early intervention is therefore an important strategy to improve mental and physical health outcomes for very young children, and educators are an obvious conduit to build …
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Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion in Comparison to Subcutaneous Insulin Injections in the Preschooler with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
… 1 diabetes has increased at an alarming rate in very young children (Weinzimer et al., 2004). The disease is fatal unless treated with insulin of which subcutaneous injection is the most common and oldest method of administration. Continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII) via insulin pump …
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The Artificial Pancreas in Children and Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes: Bringing Closed-Loop Home
… the risk of hypoglycaemia, particularly in young people with type 1 diabetes. Closed-loop insulin delivery (the artificial pancreas) is an emerging technology gradually progressing from bench to clinical practice. Closed-loop systems combine glucose sensing with computer-based algorithm …
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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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The Acquisition of Verb Inflection in Libyan Arabic: The Role of Input
… theoretical debate about the question of whether young children have adult-like syntactic representations, and what role parental/carer input plays in the acquisition of inflectional verb morphology.The results confirm what has been reported in the literature, that very young children optionally …
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A qualitative study exploring the experiences of services of parents of pre-pubertal children who identify in gender diverse ways
… been an increased interest in families who raise children that express themselves in gender diverse ways alongside a dramatic increase in the number of referrals to clinics. Research on the experiences of parents is, however, very limited. Furthermore,gender diversity in very young children (i.e. …
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A Qualitative Examination of the Maternal Racial Socialization of African American Preschool Children
… of racial socialization 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 …
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The Relationship Between Dissociation and Object-Relations Impairment in Adult Female Incest Survivor Clients with and without Personality Splitting
… may originate even before the incest occurs when very young children are exposed to harsh or psychologically overwhelming situations.</p>
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TV Guide: Learning to Use Video as a Source of Information
… seems obvious to adults, this is not true of very young children: In a series of previous studies, 2-year-olds did not reliably use a video view of a hiding event to find a hidden object. Children's experience with television (which typically is not related to present reality) may predispose …
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