Sentences with phrase «language separates children»

Externalizing language separates children from their problems and allows a lighthearted approach to what is usually considered serious business.

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Because they do not reflect the American ethnolinguistic communities, and are not led by them, the strict interpretation of what are understood to be separate dual - language competences only adds to the self - doubt of bilingual children and lack of confidence in their bilingualism.

It was, in other words, a form of ontological warfare meant to separate children from their roots in language, cultural practices and oral narratives that fundamentally inform the way in which a person interacts with their environment.

It is not merely an accident of language that the appalling infant mortality and peri-natal morbidity rates for Indigenous infants results in vastly disproportionate «hospital separations» today, and that the juvenile justice systems of Australia continue to separate Indigenous children from their families at rates well beyond those for other Australian children.

These included characteristics on multiple levels of the child's biopsychosocial context: (1) child factors: race / ethnicity (white, black, Hispanic, and Asian / Pacific Islander / Alaska Native), age, gender, 9 - month Bayley Mental and Motor scores, birth weight (normal, moderately low, or very low), parent - rated child health (fair / poor vs good / very good / excellent), and hours per week in child care; (2) parent factors: maternal age, paternal age, SES (an ECLS - B — derived variable that includes maternal and paternal education, employment status, and income), maternal marital status (married, never married, separated / divorced / widowed), maternal general health (fair / poor versus good / very good / excellent), maternal depression (assessed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale at 9 months and the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview at 2 years), prenatal use of tobacco and alcohol (any vs none), and violence against the mother; (3) household factors: single - parent household, number of siblings (0, 1, 2, or 3 +), language spoken at home (English vs non-English), neighborhood good for raising kids (excellent / very good, good, or fair / poor), household urbanicity (urban city, urban county, or rural), and modified Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) score.

Include language that reveals your motivation for entering into a separation agreement, such as to provide an amicable means of separating your assets and liabilities, and making mutually agreeable decisions regarding your children.

The majority of items comprising the «rigidity» factor are all of those that constituted two separate factors labelled «abnormal language» and «stereotyped behaviour» in the previous EFA of the SCQ in children with ASD and other psychiatric problems (Berument et al. 1999).

However, this simple change in the language within family law has optimized the good will and cooperation of many separated and divorcing parents, thus assuring more protection of their children from inter-parental discord.

In a randomized trial with 246 children in 20 Head Start classrooms, children exposed to the PATHS program had higher emotion knowledge skills and were rated as more socially competent and less socially withdrawn at the end of the school year.26 When PATHS was implemented along with a language and literacy curriculum in a separate study in 44 Head Start classrooms, significant reductions in children's aggressive behaviour were also observed.27

This section is captioned «Retention of jurisdiction as to alimony and custody of children,» and begins with the phrase «After the issuance of a decree of divorce...» This language seems to create a gap between this section and the pendente lite custody available under section 16 - 911, unless the custody decree was originally conceived by the D.C. Council to be a separate order that would follow the divorce award, thus making section 16 - 914 the permanent custody provision.

This system separated many children from their families and communities and prevented them from speaking their own languages and from learning about their heritage and cultures.