Sentences with phrase «head of the child study»

A struggle to pay the bills leads William to stumble on his ideas for Suprema, the Wonder Woman, and scripts what would become the famous comic eventually censured by Josette Frank (Connie Britton), head of the Child Study Association of American, who takes great offense at the high level of bondage and adult themes printed within the pages of Wonder Woman.

He's attempting to defend the comics, and secretly his lifestyle, to Connie Britton's head of the Child Study Association of America, but the debate never reaches a rousing climax, let alone a resolution.

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More sensors connected to the child's head allow the algorithms to create an image of brain waves that doctors can then study.

Amanda Spielman, head of the non-ministerial department said new laws and powers to protect children who mostly study religious holy books such as the bible, the Sunday Times reports.

Charles Hodge, who was head of Princeton Theological Seminary in the 1830s, said, «The gospel is so simple that small children can understand it, and it is so profound that studies by the wisest theologians will never exhaust its riches.»

• In the US, a study of Head Start families found that fathers with higher levels of depression had less involvement with their children (Roggman et al, 2002).

There are only a couple of studies that have looked at the epidemiology of heading in these age groups, and thankfully, these studies have suggested that heading is not a very frequent activity for most children, especially in recreational leagues.

Rates of abusive head injuries occurring in the first three years of children's lives almost halved over the five - year - study - period (Dias et al, 2005).

Studies are also showing that the enactment of Lystedt laws in 48 states and the District of Columbia (all since May 2009, a year after my speech), which require that parents receive at least some minimal head injury information as a prerequisite for their child's sports participation, is increasing awareness.

Recession Tied to Rise in Child Abuse Injuries The incidence of «shaken baby syndrome» and other head trauma almost doubled, study found.

«It appears that, in children who have a genetic susceptibility to ADHD, things can be done to prevent it,» says Michael I. Posner, Ph.D., professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Oregon, who headed the study.

That was the goal of the new study, by researchers at Hasbro Children's Hospital and Children's Hospital Boston, who found that sleep position does not affect the severity of head flattening.

One randomized controlled trial comparing home - visited families with control participants who received other community services found a statistically significant difference in mean depressive symptoms at two years post-enrollment, but this contrast was nonsignificant at three years post - enrollment.15 A second study of Early Head Start found no differences in depressive symptoms between intervention and control group participants post-intervention, although a difference was detected at a longer - term follow - up prior to children's enrollment in kindergarten.10 Other randomized controlled trial studies have not found effects of home visitation on maternal depressive symptoms.12, 16,17

Findings from the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, a rigorous Congressionally - mandated study, indicate that the program had modest but positive impacts on EHS children at age three in cognitive, language, and social - emotional development, compared to a control group.xxiii In addition, their parents scored higher than control group parents on such aspects of the home environment as parenting behavior and knowledge of infant - toddler development.

Mathematica has launched a new five - year descriptive study of Early Head Start, the Early Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (Baby FACES 2018), to guide program technical assistance, management, and policy.

In our continuing effort to improve player safety and to try to defend the program we had been selling for two years, USA Football commissioned the Datalys Center for Sports Injury Research and Prevention paid for to conduct an independent study to review the effectiveness of Heads Up Football since we had already been marketing it for two years for children age five and up.

Given the results of a a new study reported in the British medical journal, The Lancet4 that children and young adults scanned multiple times by CT have a small increased risk of leukemia and brain tumors in the decade following their first scan, parents should make sure a CT scan is really necessary in treatment of their child after head injury.

The BCDL study took notes from another research by the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project funded by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

«The study shows that, on average, children have higher levels of hyperactivity when taking a drink with additives in it compared to their behavior when taking fruit juices alone,» says Jim Stevenson, head of the study.

The director of the study, which hopes to follow the health of 100,000 children from before birth through age 21, has changed jobs, and there are rumors that Duane Alexander, the 69 - year - old head of the institute overseeing the project, may soon retire.

«Above all, we do not want to create the impression that walking to school is bad for children's health because the opposite is true: walking or cycling to school, which builds physical activity into the child's daily routine, has health benefits that far outweigh any negative impact of air pollution» explains Jordi Sunyer, head of ISGlobal's Child Health Programme and co-author of the schild's daily routine, has health benefits that far outweigh any negative impact of air pollution» explains Jordi Sunyer, head of ISGlobal's Child Health Programme and co-author of the sChild Health Programme and co-author of the study.

The differences between children who attended Educare and children who did not attend were larger than differences seen in previous studies of similar programs, such as Early Head Start or home visiting programs.

«We will continue looking at the efficacy of the head circumference and head tilting reflex as a screening tool for these disorders,» said Andrea Gropman, MD, a contributor to the study and Division Chief of Neurogenetics at Children's National.

Findings from that study indicate that Head Start had less of an impact on children's academic and social development than expected.

The study found that parents of 3 - year - olds in Head Start had steeper increases in educational attainment, but not their employment by the time their children turned 6 years old, compared to the parents in the control group, whose children were not assigned to Head Start.

The study, «The Influence of Low - Income Children's Participation in Head Start on Their Parents» Education and Employment» was published in the current issue of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.

In 1998, Congress mandated an evaluation of Head Start, called the Head Start Impact Study, a randomized trial of more than 4,000 children, ages 3 and 4, newly entering the Head Start program.

«Babies can be diagnosed with HLHS in - utero or after they are born,» explained Dr. Daniel J. Penny, chief of cardiology at Texas Children's, professor and head of the section of cardiology in the department of pediatrics at BCM and contributing author on the study.

The researchers used the gold standard data from the Head Start Impact Study (HSIS), a randomized trial, to examine the effect of Head Start on parent outcomes rather than on child outcomes.

And earlier this month, Ma Xu, head of research at China's national health and family planning commission, said it was time for a full study of the impact of a universal two - child rule.

A seasoned pediatric researcher and epidemiologist has been tapped to head the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) revamped children's study.

The study, published online May 1 in Nature Biotechnology, was led by Karl R. Koehler, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery at IU School of Medicine, and Dr. Hashino in collaboration with Jeffrey Holt, PhD, professor of otology and laryngology at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital.

It may be possible to predict the severity of hearing loss for children diagnosed with enlarged vestibular aqueduct, according to a new study published in JAMA - Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery.

The 2000 and 2010 studies led by Stuart A. Chalew, MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Head of the Division of Endocrinology in the Department of Pediatrics at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, first reported the major difference in the hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) response to blood glucose between African - American and Caucasian children with diabetes.

LA JOLLA, CA — A multi-institutional team headed by Ursula Bellugi, professor and director of the Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, has been awarded a $ 5.5 million Program Project Grant by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to link social behavior to its underlying neurobiological and molecular genetic basis using Williams syndrome as a model.

I led the development of the scientific standing of the Department of Child Health, with wide ranging innovations including further studies on the endocrine control of blood sugar concentrations to the influences of poverty and deprivation on the prevention and management of serious head injury in children.

It's not certain if some children with other psychiatric illnesses are being incorrectly lumped into the bipolar category, says Ellen Leibenluft, MD, head of the pediatric bipolar research group at the National Institute of Mental Health and author of an editorial accompanying the study.

Among voucher holders, a 2016 government study found fewer than 13 percent of female - headed households with children were able to move to areas with higher opportunity.

The two served as investigators in the study of Early Head Start — a federal initiative that aims to help expectant mothers and families find the services they need to create the best environment possible for their children's development.

Featuring a full schedule of sessions aimed at creating proactive policy to support child protection in the region, IIFMENA will bring together leaders, academics, policy makers, heads of international organisations, and donor agencies to study the challenges in the Middle East and propose and agree on solutions to overcome those challenges.

Studies show that programs like Head Start, which are designed to prepare children for school, do a poor job of getting children ready to read.

The largest federal study to date found that, on average, children left Head Start knowing only one letter of the alphabet, and that many teachers were discouraged from teaching the alphabet.

Last August, the federal Administration for Children, Youth, and Families commissioned a study of the degree to which state early - childhood - education initiatives work in concert with local Head Start programs.

These latest findings of the longitudinal «Ypsilanti study» — one of the first efforts to analyze the effects of preschool education on children and a model for the Head Start programs established under the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 — were made known at last month's annual policy conference of the High Scope Educational...

For example, one large study of Head Start children found significant gains over the program year in literacy, math, and social and emotional behavior.

Decades of best practice, cutting edge research in early education including the Head Start Impact Study, expert advice, and The Secretary's Advisory Committee's recommendations all culminate in a call to action for policy changes that ensure all Head Start programs provide a consistently high quality early learning experience that prepares children for Kindergarten and has long - term effects on their academic success and overall health.

Only about a quarter of children in the control group found their way into other center - based programs such as Head Start or private pre-k, so the study compares groups that are very different in their levels of access to early childhood education.

For example, one study on the impact of program - family partnerships for Early Head Start showed program families were more likely to support their children's development and literacy skills than families not in the program.Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., and Center for Children and Families at Teachers College, Columbia University, Building Their Futures: How Early Head Start Programs Are Enhancing the Lives of Infants and Toddlers in Low - Income Familiechildren's development and literacy skills than families not in the program.Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., and Center for Children and Families at Teachers College, Columbia University, Building Their Futures: How Early Head Start Programs Are Enhancing the Lives of Infants and Toddlers in Low - Income FamilieChildren and Families at Teachers College, Columbia University, Building Their Futures: How Early Head Start Programs Are Enhancing the Lives of Infants and Toddlers in Low - Income Families, 2001.

Native Spanish speakers who participated in Tulsa's preschool program or Head Start, for instance, progressed more in their language development by the end of kindergarten than non-English learners.Michael Puma et al., Head Start Impact Study: Final Report (Washington, DC: US Department of Health and Human Services, 2010); W. T. Gormley, «The Effects of Oklahoma's Pre-K Program on Hispanic Children,» Social Science Quarterly 89 (2008): 916 — 936.

He has directed the HighScope Perry Preschool Study through age 40, the Michigan School Readiness Program Evaluation, HighScope's Head Start Quality Research Center, and the development and validation of the Child Observation Record.