Sentences with phrase «current approach to child»

She compares the government's current approach to child obesity with the law's approach towards animal cruelty and suggests that the criminal law offers more protection to animals than it does to children.

Jaylene Redhead and Phoenix Sinclair are but two of the children failed by current approaches to child protection.

By grounding the development and testing of acceptance and mindfulness treatments in empirical science, there is great potential to improve on current approaches to child and family treatments and more broadly to influence cultural change.»

Conference: International Society on Early Intervention (ISEI) Date: June 2016 Presenters: Kathleen Hebbeler & Abby Winer Schachner This poster presents the current approaches to child outcomes measurement in the U.S. and key factors and strategies for identifying data quality concerns.

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According to Golinkoff and Hirsh - Pasek, our current content - driven approach to educating children is failing.

Policymakers should continue to expand access and funding for parent support and child development services delivered through home visiting, paying attention to resources that not only support the delivery of home visiting services but also support the rigorous evaluation of current evidence - based models and promising approaches in operation across the country.

Drawing on current research, case studies and digital stories, a variety of approaches to father engagement in health and well - child visits are explored.

The government is considering rethinking its approach to child benefits reform, amid fears the current plan would penalise families with only one earner.

Free all - day programs can also be a lifeline to parents struggling with sky - high child care costs, points out Brian Jones, a former New York City elementary school teacher, current Green Party candidate for lieutenant governor of New York State, and parent of a young child approaching preschool age.

Ho's research highlights contrasts between current approaches to measuring student and school proficiency and proposes alternative metrics that address some of the problems that have emerged in standardized testing since the 2001 enactment of No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

If the school adopted that dubious approach under a results - based accountability regime, the student's current ability level would need to be assessed and the school would be required to demonstrate that the child was making adequate yearly progress as determined by an annual assessment using the same testing accommodations.

The key points from each strand are highlighted as follows: Early Identification and support • Early identification of need: health and development review at 2/2.5 years • Support in early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tribunal

Our annual 2 - day Foundations of Child Play Therapy workshop will provide you with practical skills to apply in your current teaching or counselling practice and is also a great introduction to this innovative approach to mental health in children and adolescents.

Again, the sessions were a result of parents and carers wanting to know about current approaches to teaching and learning in mathematics (particularly around the four operations) and how they can assist their children at home.

Importantly, none of the current approaches to measuring RRS appropriately capture the second - to - second changes in children's physiology and stress that may be underlying their observed behaviors.

Under the district's current bilingual education plan, parents have the right to request English immersion classes for their children, Burton acknowledged, but school representatives also have the duty to explain why they think their approach is better.

Looking at achievement trends across these different assessments raises questions about the effectiveness of our current approach to school reform in the U.S.. By 2008 and certainly by 2012, we should have seen evidence of a positive impact on achievement from the test - driven reforms of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 (NCLB).

Speaking at the Conservative party conference last October, Mr Gove said the current approach to history in schools «denies children the opportunity to hear our island story».

And in 2014 when Sir Michael Wilshaw, the Chief Inspector of Schools in England and Head of Ofsted (Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills), announced «there's a need for professional governance to move beyond the current «amateurish» approach to overseeing schools».

The educators from across the country who developed ASCD's current legislative agenda believe that it's time for federal education policy to support this whole child approach, helping to ensure that all children are healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.

This activity engages and influences current Texas ASCD partners as well as other educational leadership organizations and political leaders in Texas to consider how a Whole Child approach to education in Texas enables Texas students to achieve better education outcomes statewide.

The approach is supported by key partners including Glasgow City Council (GCC), Bailie Gifford, Clyde Gateway, Children in Scotland, Save the Children, Virgin Money and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde who are committed to building on current investments.

This would entail a shift from the current established «parental intentions» approach to a more «child - centered» approach when interpreting the provisions on habitual residence of a child in the Hague Convention.

They can advise you on current family court laws applicable in your region and your best approach to getting the custody arrangement that will work best for you and your children.

Current UK government policies recognise the need for universal parenting support to complement targeted and indicated approaches29 — 33 and the English Department for Education is currently piloting the offer of free vouchers for parenting classes (the CANParent initiative) to all parents in three areas of the country.34 Such recommendations derive from observations relating to the prevalence of suboptimal parenting, 35 the inefficiency of targeting on the basis of identifiable risk factors36, 37 and the potential for realising change in high risk as well as whole population groups by reducing the stigma which may be attached to targeted parenting support.36 — 38 Given the range and prevalence of health and social outcomes on which parent — child relationships have an influence, 2, 3, 5 — 16 universal approaches are appealing.

«Current approaches to violence prevention emphasise primary prevention and early intervention to encourage respectful and equitable relationships, highlighting the importance of promoting healthy relationships to children and adolescents.»

This volume will help clinicians and educators gain access to the most current theories and research to better understand children with ASD and be exposed to guidelines for developing innovative intervention approaches to enhance social, communication, and language skills in these children.

With this foundation and review of current literature in place, participants will then learn specific strategies for approaching the current manifestation (s) of stress in the child, and learn ways to engage caregivers in activities that calm the brain so family - focused recovery work can begin.

Published decisions in our current adversarial system show a cookie cutter approach of making one parent a primary parent, and marginalizing the other to someone the children get to visit from time to time.

Policymakers should continue to expand access and funding for parent support and child development services delivered through home visiting, paying attention to resources that not only support the delivery of home visiting services but also support the rigorous evaluation of current evidence - based models and promising approaches in operation across the country.

The goal of Family Christian Counseling Center is to remain current in research based interventions that concern children and to apply these approaches for the benefit of our children.

Also, it allowed me to re-examine some of the approaches I take towards Positive Education in Singapore and ask myself if I am presenting the most current and comprehensive approach to help teachers and parents raise flourishing children.

Current «behavioral» and «play therapy» approaches to child therapy are woefully out of touch with the scientific advances that have occurred in the past 50 years.

NMT is a trauma - informed, developmentally sensitive approach to understanding the impact of a child's history on current functioning.

The objective of the current study was therefore to systematically review randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of parenting programmes for the treatment of children (≤ 18 yrs) with conduct problems to investigate i) the overall effectiveness of parenting programmes, and; ii) the relative effectiveness of different approaches to delivery.