Sentences with phrase «compare children of the same age»

Not exact matches

To monitor physical development, the doctor will weigh and measure your child at regular checkups, then plot the results on a standard growth chart to follow over time and compare with that of other kids the same age and gender.

Every child is unique and different and to compare them with other children of the same age is a dangerous and compromised way to think about both parenting and childhood.

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.

The Western Australian study, the results of which were published in the Jan 2011 issue of Pediatrics, which «studied more than 2900 children born between 1989 and 1991 from before birth to the age of 10» and «found that boys who were breastfed for the first six months of life received significantly higher scores in math, reading and spelling compared to formula - fed children with the same socioeconomic background.»

A quick look in the streets and you are likely to see that babies who have been used to being put in a stroller tend to want to sit in a stroller at older ages, compared to the number of children who had been carried and are still being carried at the same age.

See how your child's size compares to average measurements of boys and girls the same age.

However, openly uncooperative and hostile behavior becomes a serious concern when it is so frequent and consistent that it stands out when compared with other children of the same age and developmental level and when it affects the child's social, family and academic life.

Moms of young children are always concerned with the development of their children compared with other kids of the same age.

This will help determine if your baby is growing normally and show how his or her growth compares to other children of the same age.

The researchers found the children whose mothers took the DHA supplement during pregnancy had an average of 1.3 pounds more fat - free mass but the same amount of fat at age 5 compared with the placebo group.

In the largest study of its kind, the researchers conducted MRI scans at four U.S. sites to study the brains of 103 children with Tourette's and compared them with scans of another 103 kids of the same age and sex but without the disorder.

During the same period of Flint's water source change, 5.1 percent of Jackson, Mich. children age five and under, 8 percent of Grand Rapids, Mich. children and 7.5 percent of Detroit children had blood lead levels higher than the CDC reference point (compared with 3.7 percent of Flint 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.

A study comparing children between 7 and 11 years of age who have moderate or severe obstructive sleep apnea to children the same age who slept normally, found significant reductions of gray matter — brain cells involved in movement, memory, emotions, speech, perception, decision making and self - control — in several regions of the brains of children with sleep apnea.

A child suffering from hypotonia is expected to achieve certain physical abilities much later than compared to normal children of the same age.

One can compare the same two cities regarding Hispanic teacher representation as well: 18 percent of Fort Lauderdale teachers are Hispanic, relative to 30 percent of Fort Lauderdale school - aged children, and 5 percent of Milwaukee teachers are Hispanic, relative to 22 percent of Milwaukee school - aged children.

The 1997 study compared 116 grade 1 and 2 children in a noisy school on the flight path of a New York international airport with children of the same age in a «quiet» school.

We define special educational needs if a child has a greater difficulty compared with the majority of children of the same age.

We define special educational needs in terms of a staged level of difficulty a child has compared with the majority of children of the same age.

Criterion - referenced tests are designed to find out whether a child has a set of skills, rather than how a child compares to other children of the same age (normed tests.)

The intuitive idea of regression discontinuity analysis in the case of pre-k is that we are comparing entering kindergarten test scores and entering pre-k test scores, on the same test, of children who are of almost the same age, but some of whom just made the age cutoff for attending pre-k the previous year, and others who had to wait a year because they just missed the age cutoff.

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].

Some signs that a child might have reactive attachment disorder include general disinterest in the surrounding world, pulling away from caregivers, not eating well, and behaving unusually when compared to children of the same age.

When investigating a difficulty, they consider the child's level of development compared to other children of the same age.

Parents and carers may also be given the opportunity to complete questionnaires that will enable their child's behaviours to be compared with others of the same age.

Stages and Ages in Adoption (PDF - 225 KB) Riverside Community Care & Massachusetts Department of Mental Health (2014) Provides a chart comparing typical childhood development from birth to age 18 with typical development in adopted children at the same ages, along with strategies to bridge this divide.

Because human gray matter follows a nonlinear developmental trajectory, we established a reference for typical development in focal brain areas and constructed an index that measured whether regional gray matter volume was larger or smaller than expected, comparing children with others of the same sex and age.

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.

Married parents reported reading to children aged 3 - 5 an average of 6.8 times a week, compared to 6 times a week for single parents of children the same age.

Furthermore, on the same measures, a subset of 115 clinically referred children was compared to 115 age and gender matched children from the general population.