Sentences with phrase «with large numbers of children»

It is now clear that unless and until we make a more active effort to mitigate the impediments to learning that are commonly associated with poverty, we will still be faced with large numbers of children who are either unable to come to school or so distracted as not to be able to be attentive and supply effort when they get there.

With large numbers of children starting school unprepared, this book gives vital guidance on understanding, assessing and ensuring school readiness.

It is now clear that unless and until we make a more active effort to mitigate the impediments to learning that are commonly associated with poverty, we will still be faced with large numbers of children who are either unable to come to school or so distracted as not to be able to be attentive and supply effort when they get there.

Through the Ecumenical Child Care Network, the church is now in contact with the largest number of child - care providers that has ever been identified.

They show that 63,000 families have had their benefits capped to date, and the people most likely to be affected remain those with a large number of children and those with high housing costs.

The local authorities with the largest numbers of children in poverty (with annual economic cost generated by their local poverty rate given alongside) are:

For example, they would not agree to taking away housing benefit from the under - 25s, cutting benefit for families with a large number of children, freezing benefits or cutting them, or taking # 10bn out of the welfare budget.

Even when he knew that his allegations had been proven baseless, he was found promoting them from a controversial business in Austin, Texas, called Thoughtful House, where - after being fired from the Royal Free in October 2001, following his refusal to repeat the Lancet study with a larger number of children - he held a $ 280,000 - a-year post, spun from his campaign.

Now we pass on 56 percent of children in Title 1 public schools who fail national reading tests in the 4th grade to the 5th grade with the pretense that the 5th grade teacher will handle the problem of a mixed class of children who can read with a large number of children who can not read.

Your company is looking for an individual who knows how to work with a large number of children, while thoroughly supervising staff, and with my past experience, I can competently fill that role.

Not exact matches

The largest number (41 percent) of respondents, however, said they plan to leave their children as much as possible and feel confident their heirs will be responsible with the money.

While interest in their third child has been more muted, large numbers of photographers and broadcasters massed outside the hospital, along with some dedicated royal fans.

While international adoptions have long been associated with wars and destruction, in the case of South Korea, the largest number of children were sent overseas after the country had long recovered from war - the 1980s.

The story quotes others who have dealt with the problem and say that «churches are the perfect environment for sexual predators, because they have large numbers of children's programs, a shortage of workers to lead them, and a culture of trust that is the essence of the organization.»

Because I was Catholic for a number of years, and I knew families with both a VERY large number of children, and I knew families with none.

Rather they have been happy to suggest, - more often by subtle implication and spin than with straightforward candour - that (i) the priesthood is fairly riddled with abusers, (ii) there is an international culture of cover - up in the Church which (iii) goes right to the top of the Church, and (iv) that Catholic institutions such as celibacy and hierarchy are to blame — even that Catholic teaching of children about its sexual morality is a form of intellectual abuse of large numbers of children.

Whatever one thinks about its legality, abortion has nothing to do with advancing human «health,» and a large number of Americans regard it as a gravely wrong act of violence, not only against unborn children but also against women.

Since there's only me to eat it this time, I did leave the pasta out so I could freeze it — pasta will be added individually each time — but when I make it for my minister and his large family (seven children, with number eight due in just a few days), I'll include the pasta (as well as red wine — just a cup — in place of one can of soup) because there won't be any leftovers, even though I'll triple the recipe

I added a large dark chocolate button to the top of each one (glued on with chocolate icing) and then iced the numbered days leading up to Christmas...... oh I'm such a child and it was such fun!

The children reflect the cultural make - up of the borough, with a number of single parent families; a few remarried parents; some only children; some children who come from large families with up - to eight children; and some looked - after children.

It's true that more men are at home caring for the kids than ever before — there are about 2 million stay - at - home dads — but, and this is a big but, the largest number of stay - at - home fathers, 35 percent, are at home because of illness or disability, according to the Pew Research Center, not by choice, versus 73 percent of stay - at - home mothers, who either are choosing to be at home (presumably with the blessing of their partner) or who have had to opt out for any number of reasons (the cost of child care perhaps).

«We were surprised by the large number of concerns mothers had, and we were very concerned by how particular concerns were strongly related to giving up with breastfeeding» - such as worries about babies not getting enough nutrition, said Laurie A. Nommsen - Rivers, the study's senior author, from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

The number of fathers losing all touch with their children is often exaggerated, but remains large.

As a result, in a neighborhood with an intense concentration of deep disadvantage, like Roseland, it is next to impossible for large numbers of children to get the kind of help they need to make it out of there and to make it to a really successful adulthood.

The Division of Pediatric Nephrology at Floating Hospital treats a large number of children with glomerulonephritis each year.

May be you are wanting to run for a stroll with your infant then you might need to convey such a large number of things alongside your child.

Nor does it confirm why such a large number of children with SAD go on to develop depression.

They observed that when given specific knowledge and great empathy, most families had the ability to solve their child's sleep issues, and as they helped more and more families, they came to appreciate the large number of families who struggled with their children's sleep yet didn't know where to go for support and help.

A small number of secondary prevention programs for fathers of young children have been conducted and evaluated.18 For example, Parent — Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), a short - term, evidence - based, training intervention for parents dealing with preschool children who display behavioural problems was evaluated in the Netherlands using a quasi-experimental design.19 The results showed a large effect on fathers» reports of child behaviour problems at the completion of the intervenChild Interaction Therapy (PCIT), a short - term, evidence - based, training intervention for parents dealing with preschool children who display behavioural problems was evaluated in the Netherlands using a quasi-experimental design.19 The results showed a large effect on fathers» reports of child behaviour problems at the completion of the intervenchild behaviour problems at the completion of the intervention.

A recent study in Pediatrics showed a large increase in the number of children with communication disorders over the past ten years.

The result is a large number of children today with sleep - deprivation problems.

There are often large groups of children with a limited number of counselors and overstimulating environments.

Our results are consistent with several larger studies3 - 14 in various communities in developed countries, using a number of developmental tests, which have shown a positive association between breast feeding and cognitive development of the child, even after adjustment for confounding factors.

At the same time, large - scale reforms to the health, education and welfare systems — along with reductions in youth service provision and the number and services of children's centres — means confusion and real concern for professionals and families alike.

He began with a statement concerning the stabbing of two young children in Brooklyn and then answers questions concerning that incident, the proposed state law to allow municipalities to further raise the minimum wage and whether he would pursue a $ 13 minimum wage for New York City, how that proposed law fits into the political deal that gave Governor Cuomo the Work Families Party ballot line, a young boy hit and killed today by a car and how Vision Zero addresses that location and the large number of shootings in the City this past weekend.

NOW, the largest organization of feminist grassroots activists in the United States, was founded in 1966 and has hundreds of chapters in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. NOW - NY and NOW - NYC, the New York City chapter, have advocated on a number of issues affecting girls and women, including sexual assault, sexual harassment, domestic violence and child marriage — issues it has worked on with Cuomo and other elected officials.

The firefighting equipment drew large numbers of children fascinated with the close - up look.

A large number of Mrs. Jonathan's supporters, mostly women with some having their children with them, attended the court proceedings on Thursday.

She said that since she decided to run, she has received a large number of calls from parents with older children «that are alarmed who have a child involved or a friend of a child and they're begging for somebody to take a stand and say something.»

His second record was a painting of the largest number of children reading together in one place at the same time with an adult.

Using a combination of behavioral and neuroimaging methods, he and his colleagues examine how children develop foundational number - processing abilities, such as the ability to judge which of two numbers is larger or to estimate numbers» position on a number line; why these basic cognitive processes sometimes go awry; and how to help children with serious deficits in numerical processing.

On a larger scale, the number of men with more X sperm compared to the number of men with more Y sperm affects the sex ratio of children born each year.

Residing in large numbers outside the nucleus of every cell, mitochondria contain their own DNA, with unique features that «may require a reassessment of some of our core assumptions about human genetics and evolutionary theory,» concludes Wallace, director of the Center for Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Researchers tested a number of hypotheses, among them whether more unexpected births and larger families might be associated with parents being less happy than child - free people.

India has the largest number of blind children in the world, many of whom are born with cataracts.

But these studies can't provide policymakers with a prescription for the best, most cost - effective intervention that can help the largest number of at - risk children.

«In this study, we compared fMRI scans from a large number of both children and young adults with dyslexia to scans of typical readers in the same age groups.

«These results indicate that the higher autism risk may be due mainly to the large numbers of multiple births and complications of pregnancy and delivery among children conceived with ART,» said Christine Fountain, assistant professor of sociology at Fordham University and affiliated researcher at Columbia University.

The authors caution that their study was conducted in a country with strong social welfare supports and that while the sample overall was large, the number of children with many symptoms of ADHD was relatively small.

The study provides a large number of cases (children with ASD) and controls (typically developing, or TD, children), along with blood samples from mothers when their children were 2 to 4 years old.