Sentences with phrase «gain on childhood»

Most studies examining longer term effects of pregnancy weight gain on childhood body size typically only have measures of height and weight rather than estimates of body fat.

For the first time, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health studied the effects of gestational weight gain on childhood obesity risk among a multi-ethnic urban population.

Further, there has been little research on the long - term effects of gestational weight gain on childhood obesity risk in vulnerable populations.

Not exact matches

Hindu violence orphans the young hero and renders him homeless on the streets of Mumbai, but he triumphs at the end, winning his millions and gaining the hand of his childhood sweetheart when he is asked the perfectly opportune question on a TV quiz show.

I very much look forward to listening to Kim John Payne's teleseminar on October 19 — to find validation and gain perspective on the direction I should take with my daughter and the increasingly overscheduled childhood that our society promotes.

On an individual level, if you are well - educated, middle - class parents (the children who make the biggest gains from early childhood education are those from deprived backgrounds) and use quality daycare (if you use it), you are probably not going to influence your child's outcomes all that much whatever you do.

Weight gain early on increases the risk of becoming overweight later in childhood and, like adults, obese children can suffer more health problems.

While the benefits of breastfeeding for a newborn alone are enough to persuade women to make that choice when feasible, knowing that it can prevent both childhood obesity and later weight gain in the moms may help persuade those who are on the fence.

Support for parents seeking to gain a deeper understanding of feelings and identity changes, or looking for consultation on difficult childhood behaviors or emotions.

The Comer Center for Children and Specialty Care, by focusing on complex disease, will help the neediest children right away, but «the clinical and basic science faculty will apply the insights gained from complicated cases to open a window on the fundamental processes of all childhood diseases,» he said.

Studies of early - childhood and school - age interventions often find long - term impacts on such outcomes as educational attainment, earnings, and criminal activity despite nonexistence or «fade - out» of test - score gains.

The results echo findings from a 2012 OECD analysis, which showed that countries that invested in their schools in more targeted ways — such as through teacher salaries or early childhood programs, or by supporting struggling students — were the ones with the highest gains on PISA, not countries that spent the most overall.

The combination of Head Start's size and scope, the experience and input gained, and the major developments in early childhood research suggest that the time is right to capitalize on this knowledge and experience by overhauling the regulations that form the backbone of the comprehensive, high quality services Head Start programs strive to deliver.

There are three leading explanations: 1) the sample of children included in the data set used by Phillips, the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (CNLSY), especially in the early years, may be nonrepresentative; 2) better information on students» background characteristics is available in the Early Childhood survey; and 3) blacks born into recent cohorts have made real gains relative to blacks born a decade earlier.

To gain support for a preschool program, principals should share current local data on the return on investment for children who attend quality early childhood programs.

Kris Perry, executive director of the First Five Years Fund says that ESSA represents a historic gain for early childhood education, «a moment in troubled times when a Congress came together and acted on overwhelming research from experts, demand from voters, and actions taken by state and local leaders across the country to support the development of children from birth to age 5.»

The two - day Training of Trainers will focus on deepening understanding and gaining presentation practice, preparing attendees to present the training to district early childhood program administrators, special educators and specialists, classroom teachers, paraprofessionals, and members of student study teams.

These instructors must learn about the science of early - childhood development (including a focus on social - emotional growth) and family engagement, as well as gain experience in how to provide effective instruction in subjects such as early science, early literacy, and the building blocks of mathematics.

Research has shown that if we do not provide a quality education in the early elementary years any gains made in pre-K are quickly lost, so I believe before we consider expanding our early childhood education we should first focus our efforts on addressing the shortcomings in our K - 12 system.

The lesser known «P - 3» reform approaches, however, are gaining traction because they focus on the crucial early childhood years from preschool through third grade.

While a meditative voiceover, nestled comfortably between fact and potential fiction, describes the artist's troubled childhood («I survived her attempt to abort me three times»), the mirrors allow him to gain footing on a world, scarred by a personal history of migration.

The Economist says» The importance of this decline can hardly be over-estimated for big environmental organisations such as the Sierra Club: they have depended on what one expert calls «a transcendent experience in nature», usually in childhood, to gain new members and thus remain powerful lobbyists for environmental causes.»

• Highly experienced in creating and developing core preschool curriculums, aimed at meeting the individual needs of early childhood • Proven ability to tweak lesson plans to meet the requirements of each child, in accordance to his or her learning abilities and limitations • Demonstrated expertise in planning and implementing daily class activities to meet students» educational, cognitive, social and developmental requirements • Deep insight into establishing a well - managed and child - oriented class atmosphere to encourage participation • Competent at organizing activities to provide students with detailed information to understand concepts taught in class • Proficient in organizing events and activities to encourage students to explore interests and develop talents • Adept at developing schedules and routines to ensure that students gain sufficient amount of physical activities • Qualified to teach young students through study aids and activities - based learning methods • Proven record of efficiently and accurately creating and maintaining students» records with great focus on confidentiality • Effectively able to recognize signs of emotional and developmental problems and provide viable solutions • Skilled in working with students with special needs by providing them with an environment conducive to learning and understanding of their limitations

Over 400 early childhood professionals and advocates joined with us at the Albuquerque Convention Center to celebrate and learn about the accomplishments of the Race To the Top - Early Learning Challenge (RTT - ELC) grant over the past 5 years, as well as look forward to what it's going to take to sustain these efforts into the future and to expand on the gains made.

Resulting scores indicated that all CSP groups showed improvement in behavioral problems, but at different rates, suggesting a possible age effect on outcome; the middle childhood group demonstrated the most clinically significant gains.

Behavior therapy is considered probably efficacious for childhood depression, and a number of other experimental interventions show promise but require further evaluation.12 Currently, only 2 research groups have focused on psychosocial interventions for childhood bipolar disorder.13 - 15 Hence, increased attention to creation and testing of treatments specifically targeting depression and bipolar disorder in children is needed.16 In particular, studies should focus on children's developmental needs, address comorbidity, involve family members in treatment, demonstrate treatment gains as rated by parents and clinicians rather than children themselves, and compare experimental interventions with standard care or treatment as usual (TAU) rather than no - treatment or attention control groups.12, 17,18 In addition, parental psychopathology may affect treatment adherence and response.

Moderate - income families are typically ineligible for these publicly funded programs, but at the same time, such families struggle to afford the high cost of care in the private sector.19 This leaves parents facing a series of difficult choices, including prioritizing child care expenses over other household necessities; settling for low - quality child care that fits their budget; patching together multiple informal care options; or leaving the workforce altogether.20 To ensure that all children can realize the gains that come from attending high - quality early childhood programs, policy solutions need to focus on improving program supports and creating funding strategies that will increase access to high - quality programs for children from all backgrounds.

This webinar hones in on one aspect of early childhood work that has gained momentum in states in the last few years — kindergarten entry assessment (KEA).

Others will say that the wounds of our childhood inevitably get brought up and re-played out in our partnerships giving us opportunities to gain insight on our deepest drives and patterning as well as heal old childhood wounds.

Males tend to make greater gains because early childhood development focuses on building social and emotional skills and executive functioning — skills that tend to come more naturally to females.

There is much current interest in the impact of early childhood education programs on preschoolers and, in particular, on the magnitude of cognitive and affective gains.

Support for parents seeking to gain a deeper understanding of feelings and identity changes, or looking for consultation on difficult childhood behaviors or emotions.

Participants of this workshop will gain new perspective on the neurosensory development in early childhood as it relates to play therapy.

Existing research on the effectiveness of early childhood programs largely focuses on short - term academic gains when it is long - term benefits that provide a more relevant measure of value.