Sentences with phrase «by children of the same age»

Domiciliary Care Allowance is a monthly payment for a severely disabled child who is under age 16 and needs full - time care and attention far beyond what is normally required by a child of the same age.

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The American College of Pediatricians, for example, states that it «believes it is inappropriate, potentially hazardous to children, and dangerously irresponsible to change the age - old prohibition on same - sex parenting, whether by adoption, foster care, or reproductive manipulation.
You hear this one a lot in evangelical circles — that if someone is gay, he or she must have been abused as a child or seduced by someone of the same sex at an early age.
Over the past ten years, several institutes that study public opinion have regularly asked representative samples of the population of those over eighteen years of age whether they favored or opposed homosexual marriage and adoption of children by same - sex couples.
Over the last ten years, several institutes that study public opinion have regularly asked representative samples of the population of those over eighteen years of age whether they favored or opposed homosexual marriage and adoption of children by same - sex couples.
I was also beaten by random girls for no reason, put into a dumpster, tied up in an abandoned rv by some sick teens who thought that was funny, almost raped by a man while walking down the street at the age of 17 but because I screamed he only made me jack him off (at knife point), almost raped at a friend of a friend's house when we just dropped in for a minute, was impovershed growing up, even to the point where we didn't have power in the middle of winter, had to sleep all in the same bed to stay warm and used our pantry as a refrigerator, lived (and I mean LIVED) with roaches for years no matter where we moved to, was a child during the time when we had our own civil rights movement here and went through a few horrible experiences at the time.
By the way, if you find that you are having a hard time controlling your own temper, seek out support in the form of friends, other parents with same - age children, or by taking a parenting class at your local rec center or churcBy the way, if you find that you are having a hard time controlling your own temper, seek out support in the form of friends, other parents with same - age children, or by taking a parenting class at your local rec center or churcby taking a parenting class at your local rec center or church.
Now, we might want to get more informed about what those curfews should be by consulting with our friends who have younger children of the same age.
By comparing your baby's measurements — weight, length, and head circumference — to those of other children the same age and sex and to these same measurements from previous checkups, your child's doctor can determine whether your baby is growing in a healthy way.
Because babies don't all grow at the same pace, the timeline on changing your child's diet should not be determined by their age, but rather certain telltale signs they are ready for new types of food.
Based on the same report, your child's total risk of dying in a car accident by age 25: 188 per 100,000.
NYCLU announced a settlement with Utica City schools ensuring refugee children receive the same educational opportunities as their peers, by guaranteeing them the right to attend public school past the age of 21.
By the age of twelve, around one in four (24.4 %) of children in the study reported having suffered from nightmares in the previous six months, with fewer than one in ten (9.3 %) experiencing episodes of night terrors during the same period.
Erin Anderson, lead author of the study and a graduate student in psychology at Northwestern, said, «We know that by four years of age, children can detect and use relations like same and different.
«As the same children survive to slightly older ages they start getting hit by chronic disease,» says population health researcher Majid Ezzati of Harvard University.
Remarkably, only 3 % of the children who ate peanut - containing products developed allergies by the same age.
«Besides greater investment in child care and lower self - confidence than men, along with discrimination by men towards women — which by the way is present by 3 years of age — women don't obtain the same level of support as men do from [higher ranked] same - sex individuals.»
As Brown's aged, long - estranged mama, Davis — with the aid of terrific star Chadwick Boseman and some pretty expert makeup artists whose numbers Clint Eastwood should find immediately — manages to reinvigorate a set - up familiar from any number of tortured artist - biopics (i.e. absentee parent comes groveling years later to abandoned child - turned - superstar at the peak of his fame) with the same smart, electrifying clarity of character and tender yet tough - minded emotionalism that should be long - recognizable by now to anyone who has seen Doubt or Antwone Fisher or Solaris or Won't Back Down, or else Fences, King Hedley II, or Seven Guitars on Broadway, or, more likely, witnessed Davis» extraordinary, one - woman rescue job on Taylor's The Help.
Based on the children's novel by Michael Morpurgo and the Tony Award - winning play of the same name, «War Horse» is like a movie from another era — an old - fashioned, Golden Age - style epic in the vein of «Gone with the Wind.»
A Wrinkle in Time (PG for peril and mature themes) Ava DuVernay adapted this coming - of - age fantasy from Madeleine L'Engle's children's novel of the same name revolving around a young girl (Storm Reid) who, accompanied by a classmate (Levi Miller), her little brother (Deric McCabe) and three astral travelers (Oprah Winfrey, Mindy Kaling and Reese Witherspoon), embarks on an epic quest to a distant planet in search of her missing scientist father (Chris Pine) With Gugu Mbatha - Raw, Michael Pena and Zach Galifianakis.
The school's unique structure meant that children were members of four different peer groups: their classmates of the same age; their dormmates of various ages (which in my case included an older boy by the name of Shimon Peres); the coeducational members of their youth group; and their fellow workers on the farm.
Research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found that children from low income backgrounds that possess high reading skills at the age of ten, will earn 21 per cent more than someone of the same age and from the same background by the age of 38.
With few students of the same age and with child labor on farms causing irregular attendance, the efficient arrangement was to group students by ability rather than age.
The random assignment of students to classrooms, however, meant that pairs of children with the same birthday fell into different positions in their classroom age distribution by the luck of the draw.
By the time Leah was 18 months old, the little girl's sign language vocabulary surpassed the spoken vocabulary of hearing children the same age.
The graph shows a simple correlation between black - white discipline disparities (the percentage of black students given one or more out - of - school suspensions in 2013 — 14 divided by the percentage of white students given the same) versus black - white poverty disparities (the percentage of black children between the ages of five and seventeen in the district living below the poverty line divided by the percentage of white children living below the poverty line).
That right vouchsafes to families the options of private schooling and home schooling but not of no schooling, for it is balanced by «high duty» and by the «power of the state,» as recognized in the same Court decision, to «reasonably to regulate all schools, to inspect, supervise and examine them, their teachers and pupils; to require that all children of proper age attend some school, that teachers shall be of good moral character and patriotic disposition, that certain studies plainly essential to good citizenship must be taught, and that nothing be taught which is manifestly inimical to the public welfare» (emphasis added).
By the same token, Krueger rejects the notion that policymakers should focus new investments in education on a particular age group, such as the very young: «Old dogs can learn new tricks,» he says, and the benefits of programs for teenagers and adults are apparent more quickly than those for young children.
The number of primary - aged children in care nationally has risen 21 per cent since 2011, but during the same period numbers in London dropped by 16 per cent.
However, a similar, more in - depth study authored by Caroline Hoxby, an economics professor at Harvard University, examined children of the same age in 99 percent of charter schools across the nation.
If certain proposals to control homeschooling families were to be fair and not an unwarranted profiling of those who choose home education rather than public or private schooling, then the same kinds of mandated home visits by government - approved agents would need to be imposed on all families with children of all ages and on all public and private school personnel.
The new site, underwritten by Fort Dodge Animal Health, provides entertainment for children ages five through 15, and at the same time educates kids about the importance of raising a healthy and happy pet.
A family is defined by one or two parents and children up to the age of 17 living in the same household.
Incidently, it was the same spot where two years earlier, a similar error made by an Indiana trucker resulted in the death of a 38 - year - old father and two of his children, ages 13 and 4.
This policy can be availed by children in the age group of 3 months to 18 years provided parents are also covered under the same policy.
For the first 6 months after you receive your junior drivers license, you may not have more than one passenger under the age of 18 who is not an immediate family member (your brother, sister, stepbrother or stepsister, or adopted or foster children living in the same household as you) unless you are accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.
• Devised numerous age specific activities for children aiming at cognitive development and implemented the same effectively • Reduced the rate of violent incidents and behavioral problems up till 90 % by developing efficient preventive counseling sessions • Supervised a facility consisting of 50 + enrolled children ensuring their safety, growth and development
• Track record of instructing students about basic sketching and contouring techniques • Well versed in evaluating students» work, charting their progress, grading assignments and guiding them regarding their weaknesses appropriately • Hands - on experience in curriculum development, lesson planning and implementation with aid of modern and effective AV aids and instructional strategies • Expert in instructing students about working in various modes including pastels, oil colors, water colors, fabric paints, charcoal and pencil • Adept at creating and maintaining a highly stimulating, inspiring and multicultural classroom environment • Proven ability to introduce novel forms of art and inculcate the same in the curriculum effectively • Demonstrated ability to enhance creativity among students by encouraging innovation, novelty and originality in their pieces of art • Familiar with various kinds of pixel sheets, sketching paper and art material, fully capable of determining age specific art material and techniques, suitable for assigned level and grades of children • Known for initiating, designing and implementing various art contests at the school to encourage a general appreciation for art among students • Competent at identifying course goals and fulfilling the same in collaboration with students, teachers and parents • Proven skills in lesson planning, curriculum implementation, technique instruction, practice facilitation and assignment communication • Profound knowledge of various advanced level 3D effect art techniques • Strong classroom management, organization and discipline control skills • Profound ability to devise innovative learning and instructional techniques to facilitate effective transfer of skill and knowledge • Proficient in use of computer to aid art work, familiar with various graphic designing and drawing enhancement software
Comparing the results of our study with that of a research by Amstadter et al. with 1368 adolescents in two Central Vietnam provinces of Da Nang and Khanh Hoa, using the same SDQ scale, the mean scores of this study is higher (15.1 % as rated by parents, compared to 9.1 %)[16]; This percentage is also higher than that in a study by Dang Hoang Minh et al. (2013) carried out with 1314 parents of children aged 6 - 16 years, 15.1 % compared to 13.18 % [15].
For example, even though one child may have been happy and able to keep their room neat and tidy by the time they are seven years old, another child of the same age might fi nd it too hard and become defiant when his or her parent insists on it.
For example, even though one child may have been happy and able to keep their room neat and tidy by the time they are seven years old, another child of the same age might find it too hard and become defiant when his or her parent insists on it.
The International Adoption Project, out of the University of Minnesota, studied children adopted between the ages of 16 and 36 months from institutions or orphanages and compared them with same age children in Minnesota who were being raised by their families of birth.
At the same time, the age at which women have children is also increasing, but not nearly as quickly as the delay in marriage, according to the report, «Knot Yet: The Benefits and Costs of Delayed Marriage in America,» released Friday by the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and collaborators.
Teachers can often provide information about how children treat and are treated by peers, and can also offer opinions about how typical or unusual a child's peer problems are relative to others of the same age.
Our study finds that father supportiveness is positively associated with the child's perceptions of being supported by the mother, and with other aspects of children's socio - emotional wellbeing at the same age.
However, these previous results also report divergent findings, that range from attentional avoidance (see Hodsoll et al., 2014, who found that boys aged 8 — 16 with clinical levels of conduct problems and high levels of CU showed reduced attentional capture by angry faces) to attentional orientation toward angry faces (see Ezpeleta et al., 2017b, who showed that children with high but non-clinical levels of CU traits and ODD - related problems oriented their attention to angry faces to the same degree as children with low CU traits and low ODD - related problems, during an emotional version of the Go / No - Go task).
For children aged two or more, special educational provision is educational or training provision that is additional to or different from that made generally for other children or young people of the same age by main stream schools, maintained nursery schools, mainstream post-16 institutions or by relevant early years providers.
Angold et al. [42] evaluated the prevalence generated by three different styles of psychiatric interviews, those based on respondents (Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children, DISC), those based on the interviewers (Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Assessment, CAPA) and interviews based on «expert judgment» (DAWBA) applying them to the same sample of children and adolescents aged 9 — 1Children, DISC), those based on the interviewers (Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Assessment, CAPA) and interviews based on «expert judgment» (DAWBA) applying them to the same sample of children and adolescents aged 9 — 1children and adolescents aged 9 — 16 years.
Consistent with these conclusions, our own examination using the MTA sample of the types of peers children with ADHD named as liked and disliked classmates at age 7 — 9 did not yield support for the hypothesis that deviant children prefer one another; instead, we found that children with ADHD like and dislike the same kinds of peers as other children.8 Our study also indicated, however, that children with ADHD were disliked by more popular peers, suggesting that a process of ostracism by high - status peers was already in motion.8 If this is the case, gravitation toward deviant peers may occur over time, as children with ADHD find it harder and harder to gain acceptance by more preferred peers.
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