The summer program will also be tested for children who were not in a preschool program during the regular academic year, to show whether the short - term intervention can help
these children catch up to their peers who did attend preschool programs during the academic year.
AppleTree is proud to help vulnerable
children catch up to their peers.
Software and eLearning programs can correctly identify areas where a child may need extra help, and then display the necessary resources to help
that child catch up to his peers.
Not exact matches
And it may well prove
to be true that
children growing
up in serious disadvantage require that kind of comprehensive, immersive intervention in order
to catch up with their more advantaged
peers.
«Many premature
children have a good chance of
catching up to their [
peers],» says Boatman.
If your preschool - aged
child's speech and language development lag behind her
peers, you may wonder if she needs therapy
to catch up.
«There is much research
to indicate that some
children tend
to begin talking later but
catch up to their
peers soon after,» Magaldi says.
«By simply teaching caregivers age - appropriate activities
to foster
child development, we found that early intervention can help
children from low - resource families
catch up with their
peers from high - resource families,» said Carla Bann, Ph.D., statistics and psychometrics fellow at RTI and lead author of the study.
«Although most preterm
children catch up with their full term
peers during early elementary school, future interventions
to improve friendships and social interaction skills should start before school entry
to prevent later psychopathology and behaviour problems.»
However, these
children catch up — making more friends and gaining more acceptance from
peers after the transition
to school, by age eight.
Yet, while many Americans are aware of the importance of pre-reading skills, they have much less understanding that
children who fall behind in early - literacy skills often do not
catch up to their
peers in elementary school, according
to a report and polling data released last week.
As noted earlier,
children identified as reading disabled after 2nd grade rarely
catch up to their
peers.
On the other hand, the United States has a higher percentage of
children in poverty than other top performing countries, and many experts say that poor
children need more resources
to catch up to their wealthier
peers.
The same reviews also provide compelling evidence that
children who do not learn
to read fluently and independently in the early grades have few opportunities
to catch up to, and virtually no chance
to surpass, their
peers who are reading on grade level by the end of third grade.
Education savings accounts help these families afford quality private educational alternatives for their
children and they can use the accounts
to pay for educational tutors
to help them
catch up to their
peers.
The further a
child falls behind the harder it can be for him
to catch up to his
peers.
However, one -
to - one tutoring was considered
to have only a moderate impact for a very high cost, though researchers said it could help
children who had fallen behind
to catch up with their
peers.
Research shows that at - risk
children can
catch up to their non-disadvantaged
peers by participating in high quality PK programs that are linked
to K - 3 structures.
At the age 5 or 6,
children's brain architecture is 90 percent complete; sending a
child to kindergarten is too late since the learning that takes place in preschool has a life - long impact, they may never
catch up with their
peers» vocabulary.
many
children with additional needs who do not receive the support they require are unlikely
to ever ««
catch up»
to their
peers.