Sentences with phrase «early child development factors»

Various background characteristics of children are explored spanning socio - demographic, socio - economic, parenting and early child development factors.

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Grantees implement programs which teach parents and early education providers about ways to strengthen families and build protective factors (such as parenting skills and resilience in times of stress; building social connections and a support network; and knowledge of child development) in an effort to prevent child abuse and neglect before it begins.

A number of model programs were unable to document program impacts on parenting and home environment factors that are predictive of children's early learning and development through control group designs.

We know currently that an estimated 200 million children alive today will fail to reach their full physical, mental and social potential because of negative factors that inhibit early childhood development, amongst them, not being breastfeed.

HeLTI is an international research collaboration where four linked intervention cohorts will implement and test approaches to i) prevent overweight and obesity in children and risk factors for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and ii) improve early childhood development (ECD).

Very early birth factors such as birth weight and a mother's age impact the development of a child.

This research shows for the first time, that the cooperation of paternal and maternal factors in the plant zygote helps to shape the child's plant body from the early stage of development.

Scientists also hope to gain crucial insights into autism's risk factors from several large new studies, including the federally funded Early Autism Risk Longitudinal Investigation, which will enroll 1,200 mothers of autistic children at the start of a subsequent pregnancy and then track the newborn child's first three years of development.

Rowe comes to HGSE from the University of Maryland where she worked as an assistant professor of human development in the college of education, leading a research program on understanding the role of parents and family factors in children's early language and literacy development.

Three major developments of the past 20 years are now bearing fruit: 1) the creation of standards and accountability; 2) research on how the brain develops in early childhood and its implications for pre-K education and child care; and 3) an emerging focus on the single biggest factor in student achievement - teacher quality.

Factors such as early childhood development and community safety were also important factors to guarantee that each child would reach [his / her] full potFactors such as early childhood development and community safety were also important factors to guarantee that each child would reach [his / her] full potfactors to guarantee that each child would reach [his / her] full potential.

* Recent analyses indicate that environmental factors associated with vocabulary development and emergent literacy skills are already present among children as early as 15 months of age.2 By first grade, unfortunately, the repercussions become all too clear: children from high - income families are likely to know about twice as many words as children from low - income families, putting these children at a significantly higher risk for school failure.3

All of these factors, Perrera writes, «can directly or indirectly affect early brain development, the cognitive and behavioral functioning of children and their ability to learn.»

This then established the relationship between neighbourhood socioeconomic status (SES) and a number of children's health and developmental outcomes.9 Longitudinal research suggested structural characteristics such as poverty and demography were mediated through community - level social processes that influenced the functioning of families and children.10, 11 Today, however, there is still limited understanding of the modifiable community - level factors likely to benefit outcomes for young children despite socioecological frameworks suggesting there are multiple levels of influence (individual, family, community) on early child development (ECD).12, 13 Investigating these influences is thought best undertaken through a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods that can test these multiple influences on ECD.14, 15

In partnership with the Colorado Department of Human Services Office of Early Childhood, Illuminate Colorado is awarding mini grants to support three curricula to prevent child maltreatment: Nurturing Healthy Sexual Development, Darkness to Light's Stewards of Children, and Bringing the Protective Factors to Life in Your Work.

Kids in Communities Study (KiCS) study protocol: a cross-sectional mixed - methods approach to measuring community - level factors influencing early child development in Australia

Early childhood experiences that promote relational health lead to secure attachment, effective self - regulation and sleep, normal development of the neuroendocrine system, healthy stress - response systems, and positive changes in the architecture of the developing brain.86, 87 Perhaps the most important protective factors are those that attenuate the toxic stress effects of childhood poverty on early brain and child development.3,Early childhood experiences that promote relational health lead to secure attachment, effective self - regulation and sleep, normal development of the neuroendocrine system, healthy stress - response systems, and positive changes in the architecture of the developing brain.86, 87 Perhaps the most important protective factors are those that attenuate the toxic stress effects of childhood poverty on early brain and child development.3,early brain and child development.3, 5,88

Given emerging preclinical and clinical findings demonstrating the importance of both genetic and environmental (e.g., care giving and social supports) factors in determining the consequences of early stress, we examined the moderating role of the 5 - HTTLPR and social supports on the development of depression in maltreated children.

Depression and attachment insecurity of the primary caregiver and more distal family adversity factors (such as incomplete schooling or vocational training of parents, high person - to - room ratio, early parenthood, and broken - home history of parents) were found to best predict inadequate parenting13, 14 and precede the development of a child's low compliance with parents, low effortful control, and behavior problems.13, 15, — , 17 These psychosocial familial characteristics might also constrain the transfer of program contents into everyday family life and the maintenance of modified behaviors after the conclusion of the programs.

Environmental factors may cause this, as occurs in Rutter's autism phenocopy described in Romanian orphans adopted by western families in the early 1990s.1 These children had experienced extreme, profound neglect; after adoption, they began to present to services with abnormal or delayed development.

Key Findings From a 2009 National Parent Survey: Implications for Infant - Toddler Public Policy (PDF - 42 KB) ZERO TO THREE (2010) Explores issues and challenges that parents of young children confront today, where gaps in knowledge of early development exist, what sources of information and support these parents turn to, and what factors influence their approach to parenting.

Parenting skills and a variety of family risk factors are influenced by the effects of disadvantage, meaning that Indigenous children are more likely to miss out on the crucial early childhood development opportunities that are required for positive social, educational, health and employment outcomes later in life.

If some of these factors in early childhood can be identified early, the effects of risk factors can be moderated by building protective factors that aid children's resilience and development.

The child is at the center and their development and learning occurs within the context of relationships with family, early childhood education and care services, the community as well as other broader factors in society.

Children who have risk factors present during their early development can show difficulties later in life.

Stress regulation in children is important for understanding the development and prevention of psychiatric disorders.1 Environmental factors that operate at key points in development may shape affective and behavioral regulation and hypothalamic - pituitary - adrenal (HPA) axis function in children, much as environmental factors have been shown to shape HPA regulation in rodents and nonhuman primates.2 Early experiences in rodents exert lifelong organizing effects on stress responsivity.

Altogether, the conclusion of the study was that, under some circumstances, early non-maternal child care can be an environmental risk factor for attachment security and compromised later development.

The first 5 years of life are critical for the development of language and cognitive skills.1 By kindergarten entry, steep social gradients in reading and math ability, with successively poorer outcomes for children in families of lower social class, are already apparent.2 — 4 Early cognitive ability is, in turn, predictive of later school performance, educational attainment, and health in adulthood5 — 7 and may serve as a marker for the quality of early brain development and a mechanism for the transmission of future health inequalities.8 Early life represents a time period of most equality and yet, beginning with in utero conditions and extending through early childhood, a wide range of socially stratified risk and protective factors may begin to place children on different trajectories of cognitive development.Early cognitive ability is, in turn, predictive of later school performance, educational attainment, and health in adulthood5 — 7 and may serve as a marker for the quality of early brain development and a mechanism for the transmission of future health inequalities.8 Early life represents a time period of most equality and yet, beginning with in utero conditions and extending through early childhood, a wide range of socially stratified risk and protective factors may begin to place children on different trajectories of cognitive development.early brain development and a mechanism for the transmission of future health inequalities.8 Early life represents a time period of most equality and yet, beginning with in utero conditions and extending through early childhood, a wide range of socially stratified risk and protective factors may begin to place children on different trajectories of cognitive development.Early life represents a time period of most equality and yet, beginning with in utero conditions and extending through early childhood, a wide range of socially stratified risk and protective factors may begin to place children on different trajectories of cognitive development.early childhood, a wide range of socially stratified risk and protective factors may begin to place children on different trajectories of cognitive development.9, 10

Likewise, beginning in utero and extending throughout early childhood, key risk and protective factors for children's cognitive development show steep gradients by SES.

Because not all children with depressed mothers show later problems, research must also examine risk and protective factors that are associated with different patterns of early child development and adjustment.4, 5 For example, are children whose mothers have a family history of depression or who were depressed before or during pregnancy at especially high risk for adjustment difficulties?

Our team and organization grew out of the Strengthening Families Illinois initiative which has been implementing the Strengthening Families ™ Protective Factors approach since 2005 and achieving success in embedding the Protective Factors framework into Illinois» child welfare system and hundreds of early childhood programs as well as supporting the development of thousands of parent leaders through training and Parent Cafe implementation.

His research includes investigating the effects of community - level factors, maternal psychosocial factors (e.g., trauma), and offspring epigenetic influences on early childhood development; the evaluation of approaches to improve service engagement; and the use of quasi-experimental methods and large administrative datasets to estimate the causal effects of home visiting on maternal and child health outcomes.

This approach, which is being used in a number of early childhood quality systems, helps child welfare, early education and other programs work with families to build the following protective factors: resilience, social connections, concrete support in times of need, knowledge of parenting and child development, and social and emotional competence of children.

What are the social, perinatal and early childhood health factors that promote positive early childhood development in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children?

• to describe the lives of children in Ireland, in order to establish what is typical and normal as well as what is atypical and problematic; • to chart the development of children over time, in order to examine the progress and wellbeing of children at critical periods from birth to adulthood; • to identify the key factors that, independently of others, most help or hinder children's development; • to establish the effects of early childhood experiences on later life; • to map dimensions of variation in children's lives; • to identify the persistent adverse effects that lead to social disadvantage and exclusion, educational difficulties, ill health and deprivation; • to obtain children's views and opinions on their lives; • to provide a bank of data on the whole child; and to provide evidence for the creation of effective and responsive policies and services for children and families; • to provide evidence for the creation of effective and responsive policies and services for children and families.

Cross-disciplinary teams work together to assess, support, and follow families with infants and children who are identified by providers as showing early signs of social and emotional difficulties or are experiencing risk factors known to lead to poor social and emotional development outcomes.

3 FACTORS WHICH HELP OR HINDER IMPROVEMENT 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Key findings 3.3 Domains of influence on cognitive development 3.3.1 Demographic characteristics 3.3.2 Family composition 3.3.3 Parenting factors 3.3.4 Experience of childcare and pre-school 3.3.5 Child health and early development 3.3.6 Parenting support 3.3.7 Maternal health and health behaviours 3.3.8 Material and economic circumstances 3.4 Summary of single domain effects 3.5 Combined domain effects 3.5.1 Summary of combined domain effects 3.5.2 Explaining the effect of education on gaps in FACTORS WHICH HELP OR HINDER IMPROVEMENT 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Key findings 3.3 Domains of influence on cognitive development 3.3.1 Demographic characteristics 3.3.2 Family composition 3.3.3 Parenting factors 3.3.4 Experience of childcare and pre-school 3.3.5 Child health and early development 3.3.6 Parenting support 3.3.7 Maternal health and health behaviours 3.3.8 Material and economic circumstances 3.4 Summary of single domain effects 3.5 Combined domain effects 3.5.1 Summary of combined domain effects 3.5.2 Explaining the effect of education on gaps in factors 3.3.4 Experience of childcare and pre-school 3.3.5 Child health and early development 3.3.6 Parenting support 3.3.7 Maternal health and health behaviours 3.3.8 Material and economic circumstances 3.4 Summary of single domain effects 3.5 Combined domain effects 3.5.1 Summary of combined domain effects 3.5.2 Explaining the effect of education on gaps in ability

Neither is there much of an understanding of the extent to which the issues and factors which have been shown to influence early social and behavioural development in children elsewhere affect Scottish children in the same way.

Notably, early problems with language development was one of the few factors significantly associated with peer problems; 23 % of children who were reported to have language difficulties at age 2 had peer problem scores in the borderline or abnormal range at school entry compared with 14 % of those with no language difficulties.

Capitalising on recent developments in the availability of linked data relating to child development, health and community services, our study will bring together comprehensive population data relating to social and demographic factors, perinatal factors, health in early childhood, use of early childhood services and child development at school entry for Aboriginal children in NSW.

Promoting positive early childhood development in Aboriginal children is a key priority for Australia, and yet we have little information about the factors that drive it, and little evidence regarding what programmes and services are effective.

Nonmaternal care and family factors in early development: An overview of the NICHD Study Of Early Child early development: An overview of the NICHD Study Of Early Child Early Child Care.

Knowledge of various factors (individual, sociocultural and environmental) that influence language development among children learning more than one language during the early years

The Americans» Changing Lives Study which involved 3617 participants found that higher levels of parental stress were related to poorer self - rated health in parents.2 Moreover, parental stress is a known risk factor for child maltreatment and family violence, both of which are increasing globally.3 These early adverse events are detrimental to children's health and development.

A child who has a risk factor is a member of a group of children for whom the percentage who will go on to develop an illness, poor mental health, inadequate school achievement, unsuccessful social relationships, etc. is higher than the percentage who will develop such problems in a group lacking the risk factor.47 The development of any one human being is not perfectly predictable from one event, even one as powerful as the loss of early attachment.

Analyses of findings from an earlier intensive child development program for low birth weight children and their parents (the Infant Health and Development Program) suggest that the cognitive effects for the children were mediated through the effects on parents, and the effects on parents accounted for between 20 and 50 % of the child effects.10 A recent analysis of the Chicago Child Parent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» behavchild development program for low birth weight children and their parents (the Infant Health and Development Program) suggest that the cognitive effects for the children were mediated through the effects on parents, and the effects on parents accounted for between 20 and 50 % of the child effects.10 A recent analysis of the Chicago Child Parent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students»development program for low birth weight children and their parents (the Infant Health and Development Program) suggest that the cognitive effects for the children were mediated through the effects on parents, and the effects on parents accounted for between 20 and 50 % of the child effects.10 A recent analysis of the Chicago Child Parent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students»Development Program) suggest that the cognitive effects for the children were mediated through the effects on parents, and the effects on parents accounted for between 20 and 50 % of the child effects.10 A recent analysis of the Chicago Child Parent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» behavchild effects.10 A recent analysis of the Chicago Child Parent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» behavChild Parent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour.

Increased volume in this brain region is associated with more optimal development of a number of psychosocial factors (e.g., stress reactivity).15 Links between early responsive parenting and increased volume in the hippocampal region also suggest that the early developmental period is an important time to facilitate responsive parenting practices, especially in high risk families, in order to enhance the parent - child relationship.

Determinants of early child development in Chile: health, cognitive development and demographic factors

General indices regarding mental health of mothers have been associated with their children's sleep, and less well - organized sleep patterns have been noted in children from poorly functioning families.113) Mothers of children with sleep disturbances exhibited much higher psychological stress than did controls, obtaining increased scores on all factors of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ).114) Children's sleep quality significantly predicted that of their mothers, with maternal sleep quality associated with stress and fatigue.115) Moreover, infants of mothers with low levels of depression and anxiety were more likely to recover from sleep problems than those with high levels of depression and anxiety after controlling for the influence of attachment patterns.116) Sleep disturbances in early childhood were positively related to negative maternal perceptions of their child, 117) potentially interfering with the development of beneficial parent - child interchildren's sleep, and less well - organized sleep patterns have been noted in children from poorly functioning families.113) Mothers of children with sleep disturbances exhibited much higher psychological stress than did controls, obtaining increased scores on all factors of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ).114) Children's sleep quality significantly predicted that of their mothers, with maternal sleep quality associated with stress and fatigue.115) Moreover, infants of mothers with low levels of depression and anxiety were more likely to recover from sleep problems than those with high levels of depression and anxiety after controlling for the influence of attachment patterns.116) Sleep disturbances in early childhood were positively related to negative maternal perceptions of their child, 117) potentially interfering with the development of beneficial parent - child interchildren from poorly functioning families.113) Mothers of children with sleep disturbances exhibited much higher psychological stress than did controls, obtaining increased scores on all factors of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ).114) Children's sleep quality significantly predicted that of their mothers, with maternal sleep quality associated with stress and fatigue.115) Moreover, infants of mothers with low levels of depression and anxiety were more likely to recover from sleep problems than those with high levels of depression and anxiety after controlling for the influence of attachment patterns.116) Sleep disturbances in early childhood were positively related to negative maternal perceptions of their child, 117) potentially interfering with the development of beneficial parent - child interchildren with sleep disturbances exhibited much higher psychological stress than did controls, obtaining increased scores on all factors of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ).114) Children's sleep quality significantly predicted that of their mothers, with maternal sleep quality associated with stress and fatigue.115) Moreover, infants of mothers with low levels of depression and anxiety were more likely to recover from sleep problems than those with high levels of depression and anxiety after controlling for the influence of attachment patterns.116) Sleep disturbances in early childhood were positively related to negative maternal perceptions of their child, 117) potentially interfering with the development of beneficial parent - child interChildren's sleep quality significantly predicted that of their mothers, with maternal sleep quality associated with stress and fatigue.115) Moreover, infants of mothers with low levels of depression and anxiety were more likely to recover from sleep problems than those with high levels of depression and anxiety after controlling for the influence of attachment patterns.116) Sleep disturbances in early childhood were positively related to negative maternal perceptions of their child, 117) potentially interfering with the development of beneficial parent - child interactions.