Sentences with phrase «identify children at risk»

Most home visiting programs conduct developmental screenings to identify children at risk for delays and refer children for additional diagnostic assessments, evaluations, and treatment when screening uncovers possible problems.

The emotional competence screening and the social competence screening for parents and teachers were developed in Romania as brief, multiinformant, strength - focused assessment tools to identify children at risk of underdeveloped social — emotional competencies.

These results support the predictive validity of parental assessment of hyperactive — impulsive behaviors during the preschool years and their use to identify children at risk for further evaluation and possible intervention.

The ability to effectively identify children at risk is essential for the design and delivery of prevention programs [4, 5, 6].

No doubt all of the contributors would agree that we already know enough to identify children at risk for disturbances of attachment and its associated psychopathology.

To identify children at risk, data were dichotomised to low and elevated caries risk.

The program builds the capacity of children's centre preschool staff to identify children at risk of developmental delay, and supports staff and parents in promoting child development.

Additionally, staff should receive training on the unique social and emotional development of infants and toddlers to help them better identify children at risk for mental health problems.

One of the many benefits of humane education is that it helps teachers identify children at risk of violent behavior.

In addition to this, the Bureau has asked for resources for schools and local authorities to identify children at risk of dropping out and helping them return.

Train your staff to identify children at risk of being drawn into terrorism and challenge extremist ideas.

You can do this by using robust safeguarding policies to identify children at risk, devise a relevant intervention plan and select the most appropriate referral option.

This could include tools to predict which children are at high risk of LRTI, identify children at risk of progression to severe LRTI and children at risk of recurrent LRTI.

• Charting early gesture has the potential to serve as a diagnostic tool to identify children at risk for language delay.

Knowing this, he says, may help clinicians treating adults identify children at risk for psychiatric and behavioral problems.

«Identifying children at risk of eating disorders is key to saving lives.»

«Anesthesia professionals key to identifying children at risk for sleep - disordered breathing prior to surgery.»

Rosenfield, Robert L. «Identifying Children at Risk for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome» The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2007 92:3, 787 - 796.

Meeting this fifth challenge depends on better ways of: identifying children at risk of being locked into trajectories of low achievement at the earliest possible ages; enhancing levels of school readiness; diagnosing learning difficulties upon entry to school; and intervening intensively during the early years of school to address individual learning needs to give as many students as possible the chance of successful ongoing learning.

A fledgling movement of early childhood scholars, policymakers, and practitioners is heeding this call, experimenting with novel, innovative approaches for funding early childhood services, building caregivers» skills, and identifying children at risk for adversity...

The Secondary Prevention level of support identifies children at risk for engaging in challenging behavior with early interventions established that provide additional time for these children to work on relationships with others, practice important skills, and receive reinforcement for using new skills in everyday settings.

Not exact matches

The great interest of the study arises from the fact that, as the years went by, the researchers noticed that many of the children they had identified as «at high risk» (i.e., children subject to four or more serious disadvantages) were able to lead satisfying and socially productive lives as adults.

The questionnaire is designed to help identify children who are at risk for developmental delays, and encourages parental involvement in their child's development.

Pediatricians play a crucial role in identifying children who are at - risk for food insecurity and connecting them and their families with federal nutrition programs and other community resources.

The guidelines, endorsed by ACAAI, identify children at high risk for developing a peanut allergy as those with severe eczema and / or egg allergy.

But, «if you could identify which babies are at risk, you could be a little more specific in who you insist make behavioral changes and modifications,» said Dr. Rachel Moon, a pediatrician and SIDS researcher at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

Identifying core components of interventions found to be effective and understanding what it takes to implement those components with fidelity to the program model is critical to successful replication and scale - up of effective programs and practices in different community contexts and populations.7 There is growing recognition in the early childhood field of the importance of effective implementation and the need for implementation research that can guide adoption, initial implementation, and ongoing improvement of early childhood interventions.8, 9,10 The promise of implementation research and using data to drive program management is compelling because it offers a potential solution to the problem of persistent gaps in outcomes between at - risk children and their more well - off peers.

Identifying depressed mothers or those at risk for depression who are participating in home visiting, and treating or preventing the condition and its deleterious consequences, can improve program outcomes and foster healthy child development.

Research has demonstrated that a large proportion of mothers served in home visiting suffer from mental health problems, with up to 50 percent experiencing clinically elevated levels of depression during the critical first years of their child's development.5 There is evidence that many depressed mothers fail to fully benefit from home visiting.6 Identifying depressed mothers or those at risk for depression who are participating in home visiting, and treating or preventing the condition and its deleterious consequences, can improve program outcomes and foster healthy child development.

Research also has proven that the earlier we identify children who are at risk for reading problems and begin helpful activities (as early as preschool), the better their outcomes.

[31] It is a bill that would address federal adoption incentives and would amend the Social Security Act (SSA) to require the state plan for foster care and adoption assistance to demonstrate that the state agency has developed policies and procedures for identifying, documenting in agency records, and determining appropriate services with respect to, any child or youth over whom the state agency has responsibility for placement, care, or supervision who the state has reasonable cause to believe is, or is at risk of being, a victim of sex trafficking or a severe form of trafficking in persons.

Help Me Grow (HMG) HMG is a system that assists states in identifying at - risk children and then helps families find community - based programs and services.

I would personally like to see more funding poured into accurately identifying infants at extreme risk of sleep - related SUID and giving authority to child services to remove them to safety.

Intervention 1 (n = 3335): home visiting only (HV)- early home - based visiting by a maternal and child health nurse (MCHN) to women identified at risk of breastfeeding cessation.

Additionally, the County's LPP conducts free home inspections in designated areas of Cornhill and West Utica for units with children under 6 - years of age to identify those at high risk.

Nine «communities of concern» have been identified in Erie County as places «where children are at exceptionally high risk for lead poisoning.»

The guidelines, endorsed by ACAAI, identify children at high risk for developing a peanut allergy as those with severe eczema and / or egg allergy.

«Decision rules for identifying injuries from abuse are valuable for settings such as pediatric emergency departments — in these cases, reliability and accuracy of human judgement is needed since victims of child abuse are at high risk of future abuse and death,» Lorenz said.

Genetic alterations that can be modulated by stress have been identified in children at high risk for bipolar disorder, according to a recently published study by researchers at McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).

However, such behavioral measures on their own are not accurate enough to reliably identify at - risk children.

«Babies born big more likely to become obese as children, study finds: By identifying at - risk infants early, doctors could work with parents to prevent weight gain.»

The finding suggests that this type of scan could be used to identify children whose risk was previously unknown, allowing them to undergo treatment before developing depression, says John Gabrieli, the Grover M. Hermann Professor in Health Sciences and Technology and a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT.

A new brain imaging study from MIT and Harvard Medical School may lead to a screen that could identify children at high risk of developing depression later in life.

In a new Yale School of Medicine study, researchers examined MRI brain scans to identify children at high risk of developing MS before symptoms appear, which may lead to earlier diagnosis and treatment.

«Accumulation of research evidence such as ours may one day help us identify kids who might be at risk for dyslexia, rather than waiting for children to become poor readers and experience failure.»

«By looking at the genes of the children who participated in TEDDY, we can now identify who among them is at highest risk for celiac disease, and their parents and health care providers can monitor these children to detect the disease early,» said Beena Akolkar, Ph.D., project scientist for TEDDY at the NIH's National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK).

The MIT team now plans to study whether this kind of brain imaging could help identify children who are at risk of developing dyslexia and other reading difficulties.

«If we can find biomarkers informing us that the most vulnerable parts of the lung have already been infected by RSV, then it could be possible to identify much more quickly the children at more risk for developing severe lung disease and to get those babies in a treatment protocol at an earlier time,» Pickles said.

Published in the October Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, this is the first large - scale, multi-site study aimed at identifying specific social - communicative behaviors that distinguish infants with ASD from their typically and atypically developing high - risk peers as early as 18 months of age.

In recent years, brain specialists have refined their ability to anticipate who's at highest risk of psychosis — a defining feature of schizophrenia — identifying subtle signs in some children and more vivid precursors in late adolescence.