Sentences with phrase «individual benefit to children»

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Other measures include: • remove rule limiting Child Tax Credit (CTC) to one claimant per household (to allow two or more families sharing a house to claim the CTC); • repeal $ 10,000 cap on medical expense tax credit claims made on medical costs incurred for an eligible dependent; • easier access to funds in Registered Disability Savings Plans for beneficiaries with shortened life spans; • improved Employment Insurance benefits to parents of gravely ill, murdered, or missing children; and • enhanced ability to make transfers between individual RESPs, and better access to RESP funds for post-secondary students studying outside Canada.

These regulations provide guidance to individuals who may claim certain child - related tax benefits.

The legislation seeks to dramatically cut taxes on corporations and consolidate benefits like personal exemptions, the standard deduction, and the child credit for individuals.

In making a decision regarding research into human cloning, we must pay close attention to the benefits it would provide for those who suffer the worst genetic disorders; we must look closely at the possibility of some groups or individuals being exploited or neglected through human cloning; and we must keep before us the welfare of the children who would enter the world through cloning.

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

The benefit to any individual child on ear infections is pretty small.

If your child needs therapy to benefit from specially designed instruction, these services will be written into the individual education program or IEP.

There could be factors that make breastfeeding better or worse for an individual baby and factors that make formula better or worse for a particular baby, ranging from extreme prematurity (breastmilk's benefit is larger due to protection against NEC, this is probably the only situation in which I would attempt to at least pump breastmilk) to the mother being unable to cope and care for her child without a medication that is bad for breastfeeding (formula is much healthier for that child).

I give these readers my best advice, of course, but lately I've been yearning to show them the bigger picture: how these problems came to be, who benefits from the status quo (even as our kids lose out), and what we — both as individuals and as a society — could be doing to make a real difference in the lives and health of all American children.

In addition to individual health benefits, breastfeeding provides significant social and economic benefits to the nation, including reduced health care costs and reduced employee absenteeism for care attributable to child illness.

Beginning July 1, Shedd Aquarium will offer free admission every day to individuals and families presenting an Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) card, and a valid form of photo ID (also known as the Link Card, or a Women, Infants, and Children ID booklet).

The benefits of getting vaccinations at the scheduled intervals and the safety is backed up by numerous scientific studies — scientific studies also show that minimally vaccinating children or eliminating vaccination increases the chance of harm to not only to that individual child but to everyone that child encounters.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

Given that the tax system is focused on individuals rather than families, the change could lead to perverse outcomes which see an arbitrary cut - off point for families receiving child benefit.

The study states, «While several studies reported a benefit from sleep with respect to emotional memory in healthy individuals, our results showed for the first time that healthy children outperform healthy adults.»

«Additionally, infants exhibit the same patterns of learning as older children and adults — relational learning benefits from seeing multiple examples of the relation and is impeded when attention is drawn to the individual objects composing the relation.»

They focus on enhancing philanthropic support and partnerships with individuals, families, businesses, and foundations to benefit Rhode Island Hospital and Hasbro Children's Hospital.

Children who start a diet will require a minimum of three months on treatment to allow adequate assessment of benefit and appropriate fine - tuning of the prescription to individual needs; it is recommended that successful treatment is continued for at least two years during which the potential for weaning AEDs will be regularly reviewed.

It has been hypothesized that stress - reducing methods such as hypnosis, massage, and relaxation therapies, could provide benefit to atopic dermatitis patients.29 Stress has been implicated in weakening the barrier function of the skin in healthy individuals, and delaying skin healing in patients with atopic dermatitis.30 One study demonstrated 10 of 12 children had decreased itching and scratching 18 months after hypnotherapy treatment.

Children who start a diet will require a minimum of three months on treatment to allow adequate assessment of benefit and appropriate fine - tuning of the prescription to a child's individual needs.

Children need to be able to have a balance in their life, for despite the benefits of work, other parts of adolescence, such as social time with friends and sport, are equally important in an individual's development.»

Dr Mergler said it was difficult to objectively assess the relative benefits of delayed or on - time entry, with so many factors, such as the child's personality and development, the intended school and its individual teachers.

For most of us, that driving force is the continuous improvement of the educational process to benefit hordes of individual children, so they might one day become productive, healthy, contributing members of a greater society.

In Session 3, you will deepen your understanding of the distinguishing features of a learning group and five strategies for promoting group learning in an educational setting: nurturing children's capacities to learn together; designing engaging tasks that benefit from a group perspective; facilitating conversations that deepen learning; forming groups intentionally; and choreographing individual, small - group, and whole - class learning.

With this approach — capturing the experiences of individual children in even hard - to - reach settings — the study will seek to answer the big questions facing the field, perhaps the most enduring of which is just how tangible and long lasting the benefits of preschool are.

Sports Offer Autistic Kids Physical, Social Benefits Participation in individual sports, such as martial arts and track and field, can have many benefits for children with autism, according to one neurBenefits Participation in individual sports, such as martial arts and track and field, can have many benefits for children with autism, according to one neurbenefits for children with autism, according to one neurologist.

[6] The columns in the table address: a) the vehicle by which funding is delivered (e.g., tax expenditure vs. social program); b) the particulars of that funding vehicle (e.g., payments to individuals vs. program providers or states); c) the dollar value of the benefit to a family; d) whether the tax benefits are refundable (provide refunds to low income families in excess of their tax liability); e) whether the benefits are progressive (inverse to family income); f) the total annual program expenditure that is conditional on children (e.g., spending on housing vouchers that goes to families without children is excluded); and g) the estimated portion of the total expenditure that goes to children under five years of age.

Annual value to family provides either a statutory amount of federal benefit (in the case of tax expenditures) or the average expenditure per child (for programs in which total expenditure and number of participants are known but benefits vary with characteristics of individual recipients).

Learning Exchanges catalyze individuals and teams to re-imagine how schools and communities can fully engage collective power for the benefit of children, youth, and families by reclaiming the purposes of education as academic, social - emotional, and civic; uniting the power of place and wisdom of local people; redefining professional learning as a hopeful process that engages the heart, mind, & spirit; and taking actions to eliminate inequity and injustice in schools and communities.

Distinguishing the earlier Brady decision, the court noted that funds were paid to the transportation system administered by the board of education, not directly to individual schools, and benefits flowed «toward the safety and welfare of elementary age school children and not into the accounts of non-public schools.»

For me, the crucial difference with Pupil Premium funding is that it is linked to the individual children and young people it is intended to benefit.

However, 75 percent of foreign - born Hispanic parents said they worried classroom technology could cause teachers to know less about their children's individual needs — a misgiving especially prevalent among parents whose children were English - language learners and should benefit from more personalized instruction.

2005 National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) Community Service Award... presented to an individual or group that has made a contribution that benefits the development of gifts and talents in young people; the nature of the work generally characterizes the goals and values of the NAGC and education in a democracy, and affects the larger community, state, or nation.

The only individuals directly benefiting from targeted voucher policies are low - income parents and their children, who have the fewest resources to devote to political activity, and therefore have little political influence.

[1] At stake: «What is the level of educational benefit that school districts must confer on children with disabilities to provide them with the free appropriate public education guaranteed by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act?»

The Court will decide what level of educational benefit schools are required to provide to children with disabilities under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

To be eligible for the Canada Child Benefit, an individual must be a Canadian resident for tax purposes, reside with the child and be the parent who primarily fulfils the responsibility for the care and upbringing of the child (or be a shared - custody parChild Benefit, an individual must be a Canadian resident for tax purposes, reside with the child and be the parent who primarily fulfils the responsibility for the care and upbringing of the child (or be a shared - custody parchild and be the parent who primarily fulfils the responsibility for the care and upbringing of the child (or be a shared - custody parchild (or be a shared - custody parent).

Other benefits include accidental death, which provides benefits when death occurs as a result of an accident, family plan for insured spouse and children, disability waiver of premium, which waives the premium payments if the insured becomes disabled for more than 6 months and mortgage payment disability benefit which offers money to continue making payments if the insured individuals becomes disabled for 60 days or longer.

These regulations provide guidance to individuals who may claim certain child - related tax benefits.

Policies can be customized with riders such as children's term rider, accidental death benefit, disability waiver of premium and more to suit your individual needs.

If you die and leave behind a 45 - year - old spouse and a 10 - year - old child, each of these individuals would be entitled to 75 % of your full retirement benefit, or $ 1,125 per month each.

Another benefit of pooling miles is that individuals who have accrued only a small number of miles, such as children who don't often travel, can still put them to good use by sharing them with other members.

Well - suited for individuals in complex family, financial, and business circumstances, alternative dispute resolution approaches, such as family mediation and family arbitration, offer you the benefits of greater privacy, a less formal process, more control over your outcomes, improved communication, reduced negative impacts on children, more timely settlement, reduced costs, and greater opportunity to preserve your family relationships and arrive at mutually agreeable arrangements.

«We agreed in the big picture this was something the public was going to be interested in and that there was a benefit of putting it on our web site in a way everyone could have access to it rather than just waiting for individual requests,» says Megan Evans, chief legal officer and risk officer with the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

After age 25, each child's coverage can be converted to an individual life insurance policy with a maximum death benefit of $ 40,000, without providing evidence of insurability.

Individuals with children, spouses or other dependents are the ones most likely to benefit from investing in life insurance.

Investing in an individual education plan for your child early on ensures that when it's time for him or her to pursue a further education, the maturity benefit received will be large enough to fulfil all his or her educational needs.

The plan covers self, spouse (upto 60 years of age) and two children (under 21 years) against medical eventualities and provides floater benefit to individual family members.

Women and Families Center (Meriden, CT) 5/2003 — 7/2004 Sexual Assault Crisis Counselor & Internship • Developed curriculum for autistic pilot program while supervising the implementation of camp activities and overseeing the proper placement of children within program activities • Hired, trained, and monitored support staff to ensure proper adherence to teaching techniques • Managed camp budget, including trip expenditures, to ensure successful cost - benefit relationship • Communicated effectively with parents and other interested parties regarding student behavior / progress Safe Haven of Waterbury (Waterbury, CT) 9/2001 — 7/2004 Family Violence Victim Advocate • Utilized a complex variety of instructional and assessment strategies while effectively implementing behavior - change interventions at both the individual and student level • Developed and integrated media and other technological aides to improve classroom experience • Facilitated and fostered constructive communication with parents and other interested parties • Created an effective and constructive «curriculum writing project»

But decades of research have told us too much about the critical nature of the early years, and the benefits that accrue to individuals and to society when we invest in those years for us to continue to sell our children, families, educators, and economy short.