Sentences with phrase «earlier than peers»

Describing the many ways in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experience deep trauma, in a list «that would surely make the blood of any decent human being run cold,» Parker said Indigenous people continued to die more than a decade earlier than their peers, suffer double the burden of ill health and infant mortality, with unemployment four times higher and median incomes half, and disability for one in three.

Girls who develop earlier than their peers are gaining weight and growing in height at a time when other girls are still thin, and they are the ones who experience the poorest feelings about their bodies.

The findings indicate that eating problems did occur in response to the physical changes of puberty, but only for girls who experienced these changes earlier than their peers.

To reach retirement earlier than your peers, you will need to handle your money in a different way as well.

Girls who go through puberty and develop physically earlier than their peers are at risk of low self - esteem as well as emotional and behavioral problems.

From what I have read, the child might toilet train earlier than her peers but up until about 18 months it sounds like it is the parents that are trained, not the child.

To reach retirement earlier than your peers, you will need to handle your money in a different way as well.

Not exact matches

While young / first - steps content marketers can learn many things from their more mature peers, one of the most striking — and encouraging — observations about those in the early phase is that 71 % agree that their organization is focused more on building long - term relationships than on getting quick results from content marketing.

Historically, early - stage venture returns for small funds — defined as those with less than $ 250 million of committed capital — have outpaced those of their larger peers.

Kimmel is a peer more of Sean Hannity than of earlier late - night hosts, who had mass appeal: Johnny Carson, even Jay Leno or the 1980s version of David Letterman.

Also of note is the finding that the best performing young footballers who will go on to play the sport professionally display superior dribbling skills, endurance capacity and tactical awareness compared to their peers, from as early as 14 years of age.9 17 These differences appear well before it is possible to accumulate 10 000 h of practice, but allow predictions of which players will go on to achieve best performances in adulthood, suggesting that the effectiveness of and response to training, rather than simply training, determines success.

Abernethy (2005) found that child athletes who participated in a variety of sports and specialized in adolescence tended to be more consistent performers, experienced fewer injuries, and were involved in sports for a longer time than their early - specializing peers.

When children enter puberty earlier or later than their peers, they may be self - conscious, worried, or even depressed about their situation.

Since boys at highest risk of becoming early fathers can be identified from age eight (see below) engaging with such young males in highly specialised programmes early on (to teach basic life skills, address negative peer influences, promote school success and direct them to alternatives other than early parenthood) is indicated, in order to reduce sexual risk - taking and early fatherhood (Thornberry et al, 2004)

Middle - schoolers are more influenced by their peers than at any earlier age.

An early - reading child may have poorer co-ordination or motor skills than his more active peers.

Some children this age may experience sudden growth earlier than others, and some may have stronger motor skills than their peers.

Some parents worry that accelerating their child in earlier grades will lead to their child not fitting in when they reach puberty or have growth spurts later than their peers.

Studies from the early 1980's demonstrated that children in situations where their parents had been involved in multiple divorces earned lower grades than their peers and their peers rated them as less pleasant to be around.

They are more likely than their peers to engage in early sexual activity.

Back in the early 19th century, Dr. Semmelweiss was derided by his peers for hypothesizing on why more women were dying in the obstetric clinic than in the one run by midwives.

Generally, girls hit puberty earlier than boys, although some girls might lag behind their peers in breast development or getting their first period.

In the United States, adolescents with divorced parents drink alcohol earlier and report higher alcohol, marijuana, tobacco, and drug use than their peers.

«I'm probably still more efficient than my peers because of the way I had to structure my working environment» early on as a scientist parent, says McKendrick, who is now the head of the optometry and vision sciences department at the University of Melbourne in Australia.

The scientists exposed a group of mouse lemurs to moderate chronic caloric restriction (30 % fewer calories than their peers consuming a normal diet) from the outset of early adulthood (Restrikal cohort, see visuals below).

The statement is based on a review of existing scientific research published in peer - reviewed medical journals that documents a strong association between adverse experiences in childhood and teen years and a greater likelihood of developing risk factors such as obesity, high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes earlier than those not experiencing adverse experiences.

As a researcher focused on an earlier period, she was more comfortable than some of her peers in accepting that domestication prior to the advent of agriculture — roughly 12,000 years ago — was even possible.

The final report notes that the investigated research projects, which involved taking tissue from more than 6000 people from the 1950s to the early 1990s, produced significant data published in peer - review journals.

However, even though an adolescent with good language and cognitive skills may experiment with drinking earlier than his / her less advanced peer, better verbal and intellectual abilities have [also] been found to be protective against developing severe problems with alcohol and other substances in adulthood.»

«We believe that the early superiority in the reading skills of the children who were screened may have enabled them to read more demanding material more frequently than their peers with later confirmed hearing difficulties, thus increasing the skill gap between the two groups.

Swedish PhDs traditionally have not completed their theses until their early 30s (although this is a situation which is changing) so are generally older than their foreign peers, and postdoctoral fellows have more independence than their counterparts in other countries.

JWST is an infrared observatory designed to peer further back into the universe's early days than ever before.

The results from the study showed that men who reported earlier or later onset of puberty than their peers had a poorer semen quality and smaller testicles at age 19 years of age.

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Drawing from United States government data that tracked perceptions among more than 61,000 adults starting as early as 1990, Zahrt and Stanford psychology professor Alia Crum deduced that people who said they were not as active as their peers were as much as 71 percent more likely to have died when the researchers followed up on their status in 2011.

Non-overweight individuals in their late 60s, 70s, and early 80s who have no outward symptoms of Alzheimer's are more likely than their heavier peers to have biological markers (or biomarkers) of the disease, the study found.

Red Oaks is no better or worse than its peers in this genre; certainly it will trigger fond and awkward memories for those who lived it or something like it, but the pilot episode released earlier this year doesn't make a case that these feelings have much thematic potential beyond the usual cliches.

The irony of Coleman's earlier findings is that, more than a half century later, students are, to no one's surprise, still «person - oriented,» focusing more closely on their peers than on nearly anything adults ask them to consider.

There is no question that Spanish - speaking Hispanic students» language - learning needs are somewhat different than their monolingual peers, particularly in the early years.

In early childhood policy (and in the wider media), much attention has been paid to the so - called word gap — findings that show that low - income children hear 30 million fewer words, on average, and have less than half the vocabulary of upper - income peers by age three.

In the early 1980s, James Coleman and his colleagues found that Catholic - school students were significantly more likely to report that their schools» approach to discipline was «excellent or good» than their public - school peers.

Perhaps most intriguingly, MDRC found that the young men who years earlier had graduated from a career academy were 33 percent more likely to be married, and living with their spouse, than their peers in a control group.

Compiled data from all 3,001 children and their families showed that Early Head Start children scored higher, on average, than their peers on standardized tests of cognitive and language development; and far fewer children tested as requiring remediation.

In the early grades, an older child will tend to perform better on standardized tests than his younger peers simply by virtue of being older.

For example, during the early stages, girls and firstborn children on average learn vocabulary somewhat more quickly than their peers.2 On the environmental side, parents who talk more to their children have children whose vocabularies grow faster.3

By socio - economic level, low - income boys tend to drop out earlier from the educational system and enter into the labor market sooner than their wealthier peers even though they face higher unemployment rates, lower income and worse employment conditions (Amarante, 2011; Bucheli, 2006).

Here's just one example: After almost a year in Head Start (with an average cost of about $ 7,700 in 2005), children were able to name only about two more letters than their non — Head Start counterparts, and they did not show any significant gains on much more important measures, such as early math learning, vocabulary, oral comprehension (more indicative of later reading comprehension), motivation to learn, or social competencies, including the ability to interact with peers and teachers.

This study finds that Early College students were significantly more likely to graduate from high school and enroll in — and graduate from — college than their peers who did not take part in the program.

Furthermore, the «test prep» complaint fails to account for the fact that Success Academy students get more science instruction than their peers - and frequently engage in the type of deep learning we described earlier.

We know that one route to learning vocabulary and world knowledge is through reading: Children who learn to read early on read considerably more than their peers who are still struggling to decode, and through reading they learn things that increase their text comprehension (Juel, 1994; Stanovich, 1986).