Sentences with phrase «early language experiences»

«This is the way Sam puts on his coat, puts on his coat, puts on his coat...» Every time you read, talk, sing or rhyme with a child you are providing the early language experiences that lead to reading.

Truly, your child's early relationships and early language experiences provide the foundation for learning and healthy development.

Eden and her colleagues report on a new structural brain imaging study that shows, in addition to deafness, early language experience — English versus ASL — impacts brain structure.

In 1995, research by Betty Hart and Todd R. Risley revealed how differences in early language experience fuel the achievement gap in our nation's schools.

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He spoke of «God up there» when theologians such as J. A. T. Robinson were busy with erasing the mythical language of three - storied universe that underlies the early Christian thought and experience.

This expectation, and the language / imagery used to convey it, was used by the early Jewish Christians to express their experience that Jesus had been raised from death by God.

I can not avoid the conclusion that by the time they were written — and the Pauline epistles are the earliest of the New Testament writings — Christians no longer thought in that way of their present experience of the risen Jesus; but reserved such language for the initial Easter period (extended by Paul to include his own formative experience).

These are only a few of the passages in which the early community attempted to express a shared experience which lay beyond the power of language to describe.

The story was old, the musical setting the work of genius, but the music, at the time, was familiar; Bach employed scores of earlier hymns and even popular songs, and of course the language was German, with the result that the average Protestant churchgoing listener had a new experience — the words and music of the time were recast to provide religious relevance and meaning.

And the inadequate nutrition, housing, language development, and early educational experiences that many impoverished students suffer are real barriers to learning.

Parents learn to understand what their babies / children are communicating with body language, symbolic play, behaviors and words about their earliest experiences; families learn ways of interacting and activities that will lead to resolution of early trauma and closer, more loving family bonds.

Deanna has experience working as a pediatric speech - language pathologist in private practice, Early Intervention, and in preschool and elementary school settings.

No Leapfrog learning device, baby gym class or infant sign language video will ever compare with the brain development that freedom for early movement experiences promotes.

A baby's early experiences and relationships stimulate these neural connections, laying the foundation for emotions, language, behavior, memory, physical movement and more.

According to the American Library Association (ALA), «A child's early experiences with language contribute to healthy brain development and lay the foundation for learning to read when a child enters school.»

Alas, Farage had used exactly that language just an hour or so earlier when he appeared on ITV's Good Morning Britain and described his experience of Calais:

«This study permits us to tease apart — for the first time ever — the roles of infants» early experience and maturational status in establishing this critical language - cognition link,» said senior author Sandra Waxman, the Louis W. Menk Chair in Psychology in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern and faculty fellow in the University's Institute for Policy Research.

Functional magnetic resonance imaging has shown that mothers, but not fathers, have increased brain cortical activation in specific language processing areas when listening to infant - directed speech, suggesting that mothers have an intent to communicate and the difference in neural processing is experience - dependent.24 The mothers spoke more to infant girls than boys in early infancy.

Catherine Snow: Incorporating Rich Language in Early Education Educations Funders Researchers Initiative, November 18, 2013 «Taking on the task of improving reading skills, for all children and especially for those scoring at the bottom of the skill distribution, requires three simple things: first, we must provide all children with experiences designed to ensure a broad knowledge base and rich language before entry to kindergarten; second, we must redesign post-primary instruction to focus on discussion, analysis, critique, and synthesis; and third, we must redirect resources from testing children to assessing what is actually going on inside classrooms,» writes Professor Catherine Snow.

The plan's five main objectives, to be delivered by 2021, are: to develop a new Welsh language; to increase opportunities for children and young people to use their Welsh in various contexts and embed their language use patterns from an early age; to support leaders and practitioners in Wales to continue to develop their Welsh language skills and have the knowledge and expertise to deliver the curriculum through the medium of Welsh and Welsh as a subject; to increase the number of learners in Welsh - medium settings; and to ensure that all learners can have equal access to Welsh - medium education and experience the best opportunities to develop their language skills.

It offers parents help in figuring out what language and literacy experiences to look for in preschools and child care; what to look for in initial reading instruction in kindergarten and the early grades; what to ask school boards, principals, elected officials, and other policy makers who make decisions regarding early reading instruction; and whether their child is making progress in related skills and early reading.

«Meredith Rowe is an expert on language and cognitive development during early childhood, with a focus on the role that parents, socioeconomic status, culture, and experience play in development»

Flash forward and Hergenroeder was in Associate Professor Meredith Rowe's class in which she learned about the crucial role of early experiences in language development.»

In short, all children — but especially the poor who grow up without the language and book exposure to help them succeed — should be getting early - literacy instruction that balances basic skills with playful, content - rich language experiences.

The creative, innovative, and intelligent ways they have used digital media to support their own language and literacy development and burgeoning critical media literacy and social justice awareness have spilled over into their classroom practices during their early teaching experiences.

Following an earlier segment with Randi Weingarten, Kelly shares her first classroom experience with English language learner students and her thoughts on the...

To address the achievement gap, principals need to be aware of the importance of language experiences in early learning classrooms.

Participants will experience firsthand how technology accelerates learning in the primary grades through language immersion, early childhood, special education, and the arts while Minnetonka's 1:1 iPad program highlights the district's approach to digital learning at the secondary level.

You will experience how you can help children develop early language and literacy skills, such as expressing thoughts, ideas and opinions, having conversations with others, understanding narrative structure and elements and much more.

She has several years of experience researching and evaluating programs across multiple areas, including early childhood, literacy, school safety, student health, STEM (science, technology, education, and math), English language...

It's well documented that all children, but especially low - income and dual language learner children, benefit from high - quality early learning experiences.

In December 2014 the Independent Schools Inspectorate rated our Early Years department as outstanding across all areas commenting that «the education programmes provide interesting and challenging experiences, which are highly effective in promoting the children's language, communication, personal, social and emotional development».

Many schools are redesigning the high school experience by implementing various models, such as career and technical education (CTE); personalized learning, apprenticeships; early college and dual enrollment; and language immersion programs — all of which can work for students» individual needs.

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Earlier this year, the company introduced an enhanced mobile web experience available in eight languages and designed to balance the beauty Starwood guests equate with each of the company's unique brands and the ease of use required to make smart, fast bookings.

From her earliest poem in English, which addressed the Vietnam War, to her award - winning 1978 novel Sitt Marie - Rose, she explores the political and personal dimensions of violence and articulates her experience of exile from familiar landscapes and languages.

Throughout the early 20th century, artists were radically breaking with all traditions in art, inventing a new visual language that responded to the experience of living in a new century.

Hong Kong based artist Samson Young discusses how his early experiences playing video games in languages that he didn't understand informed his approaches to composition, improvisation and role play.

This multidimensional process and hacking of visual language via technology was also a large part of her earlier video work, where she would «layer» software, manipulating the programs to create new visual effects and experiences.

Mihalache explains some of the earlier Tim Hortons commercials included a Chinese immigrant learning the Canadian experience and the «ritual of becoming Canadian by learning how to eat the donut and learning the language of the double double.»

Similar to language, the rules and customs that define a person's culture are learned early and reinforced steadily through their continued experiences and social learning.

Experiences in the first 1000 days of life have a crucial influence on child development and health.1 Appropriate early child development (including physical, social and emotional, language and cognitive domains) has consistently been shown to be associated with good health and educational outcomes in childhood and consequent health and employment outcomes in adulthood.2 — 4 Adopting a life course approach, including early intervention, is essential, 5 and investment is therefore needed in effective prenatal and postnatal services to optimise child health, well - being and developmental resilience.6

The Report, Bringing Them Home, reveals the extent of forced removal, which went on for 150 years into the early 1970s and its consequences in terms of broken families, shattered physical and mental health, loss of languages, cultures and connection to traditional land, loss of parenting skills and the enormous distress still being experienced by many of its victims today.

In Denver, low - resource families who received home visiting showed modest benefits in children's language and cognitive development.102 In Elmira, only the intervention children whose mothers smoked cigarettes before the experiment experienced cognitive benefits.103 In Memphis, children of mothers with low psychological resources104 in the intervention group had higher grades and achievement test scores at age nine than their counterparts in the control group.105 Early Head Start also identified small, positive effects on children's cognitive abilities, though the change was for the program as a whole and not specific to home - visited families.106 Similarly, IHDP identified large cognitive effects at twenty - four and thirty - six months, but not at twelve months, so the effects can not be attributed solely to home - visiting services.107

Children who experience poverty, particularly during early life or for an extended period, are at risk of a host of adverse health and developmental outcomes through their life course.1 Poverty has a profound effect on specific circumstances, such as birth weight, infant mortality, language development, chronic illness, environmental exposure, nutrition, and injury.

Our findings add insight into the pathways linking early childhood adversity to poor adult wellbeing.29 Complementing past work that focused on physical health, 9 our findings provide information about links between ACEs and early childhood outcomes at the intersection of learning, behavior, and health.29 We found that ACEs experienced in early childhood were associated with poor foundational skills, such as language and literacy, that predispose individuals to low educational attainment and adult literacy, both of which are related to poor health.23, 30 — 33 Attention problems, social problems, and aggression were also associated with ACEs and also have the potential to interfere with children's educational experience given known associations between self - regulatory behavior and academic achievement.34, 35 Consistent with the original ACE study and subsequent research, we found that exposure to more ACEs was associated with more adverse outcomes, suggesting a dose — response association.3 — 8 In fact, experiencing ≥ 3 ACEs was associated with below - average performance or problems in every outcome examined.

Early childhood education provide children with experiences necessary for development of competences in one or more domains including cognitive, language, literacy, math, social - emotional development and physical development (Buysee & Wesely, 2005).

ECD programmes can take many forms, including promotion of good health and nutrition, support for safe and stimulating environments, protection from risks such as violence or abandonment, parenting support and early learning experiences, media, preschools and community groups.4 Poverty is the key underlying cause of poor child development; children living in poverty are exposed to many negative influences, including poor physical environments, inadequate nutrition, parental stress and insufficient cognitive stimulation.5 Undernutrition can influence brain development directly by affecting brain structure and function, or indirectly via poor physical or motor development, in addition to other pathways.6 — 8 Exposure to multiple co-occurring risks most likely contributes to greater disparities in developmental trajectories among children with differential exposure.9 — 12 This paper focuses on associations between specific aspects of children's physical environments — access to improved water and sanitation (W&S)-- and childhood development as measured by performance on a test of receptive language.

Patricia Lozano has extensive experience in early childhood policy and research, as well as dual language education.

Children with a non-white background are at a greater risk of developing peer problems during the pre-school period, as are those children with early language difficulties and those who experienced fewer visits to households with other children.