Sentences with phrase «childhood verbal ability»

«This study's findings make a significant contribution to the [field] by using a discordant twin design to address issues about the association between childhood verbal ability and subsequent alcohol use in adolescence and young adulthood,» said Windle.

«The discordant twin design minimizes a number of potentially confounding factors that may explain the association between childhood verbal ability and subsequent alcohol use by «controlling» for differences on variables [such as] socioeconomic differences or family factors that, if excluded, could cloud the interpretation of findings.»

Not exact matches

Maternal diet soda consumption was associated with poorer fine motor, visual spatial, and visual motor abilities in early childhood and poorer verbal abilities in mid-childhood.

Maternal sugar consumption, especially from SSBs, was associated with poorer childhood cognition including non-verbal abilities to solve novel problems and poorer verbal memory.

Fruit was additionally associated with greater visual motor abilities in early childhood and verbal intelligence in mid-childhood.

Verbal and physical aggression between parents from infancy through early childhood significantly predicted children's ability to accurately identify emotions at 58 months of age.

«This research highlights the potential role of individual differences in verbal abilities during childhood as a risk factor for the subsequent development of alcohol use during adolescence and young adulthood,» said Michael Windle, professor and chair of the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.

Kids who regularly consumed whole fruits had better visual motor abilities in early childhood and better verbal intelligence in later childhood.

Practicing a musical instrument in childhood is associated with enhanced verbal ability and nonverbal reasoning.

Room quality and composition matters: Children's verbal and numeracy abilities in Australian early childhood settings

This is especially true in these academic domains: mathematics and verbal abilities, in fact, represents both a cognitive and a social «visiting card,» starting in early childhood, for the growth of children's social skills.

According to Moffitt (2006), the childhood - onset pathway may be explained, in part, by children's neuropsychological deficits, difficult temperaments and poor verbal abilities.