Sentences with phrase «preschool period»

Because the neocortex is relatively immature until the toddler or preschool period, it stands to reason that young children would have relatively poor long - term memories.

«What we're learning is that it's sometime during the preschool period that children are developing these eating habits.

Holub argues that it's in the preschool period that children begin to think not about what their body is telling them, but instead about what their social environment is telling them.

These effects were much stronger than the influence of children's vocabulary and general cognitive abilities in the preschool period.

The two studies assessed an array of cognitive, linguistic, and pre-reading skills in children during the preschool period and followed those children into elementary school.

However, precocious reading early in the preschool period by otherwise normally developing children is well documented, as is a developmental disorder called hyperlexia, in which children with low levels of cognitive and linguistic skills can decode written text with high accuracy.

In contrast, funds in an education savings account would be deposited and available for expenditure soon after a child is born, topped up every birthday thereafter during the preschool period, and available for expenditure on that child's education needs through college and career training.

In contrast, the hippocampus appeared smaller in adolescents whose mothers were less supportive during the preschool period, even if their mothers became more supportive in elementary or middle school.

«The parent - child relationship during the preschool period is vital, even more important than when the child gets older,» Luby said.

Early learning is a term that loosely defines the preschool period and generally refers to foundational learning concepts.

Analyses showed that children exposed to stress only in infancy or only in the preschool period had cortisol levels similar to those never exposed to stress, whereas children exposed to maternal stress in infancy and preschool had elevated cortisol levels.

The family stress model and maternal psychological symptoms: Mediated pathways from economic hardship to parenting across the infancy to preschool period.

It follows a clear developmental path with indicators that can be present as early as the preschool period.

If difficulties in the preschool period have been present, frequently the families provide poor support of academic performance.

All of those who are involved in working with children in the toddler and preschool period can really support children's development but particularly psychologically and socially.

The influence of attachment pattern on developmental changes in peer interaction from the toddler to the preschool period.

Only a few studies, including two of our own, assess families during the preschool period and again after the child has entered elementary school.

The preschool period is a critical time for children to learn to control their thoughts, feelings, attention, impulses and behavior: that is, to learn social - emotional skills.

The basic finding is of considerable consistency across the transition in terms of mothers», fathers», and children's characteristics; both mothers» and fathers» authoritative parenting style during the preschool period explains significant variance in children's academic achievement and externalizing or internalizing behaviour with peers two and three years later.

[thesis] Kalpidou, M. D / 1997 / The development of behavioral and emotional self - regulation during the preschool period

Designed to narrow the gap between disadvantaged children and their more affluent peers, Head Start provides comprehensive programming during the preschool period to improve children's social competence and academic readiness for school.

This is the first manual developed specifically for the symptoms that follow from a variety of traumatic events in the preschool period.

Therefore, the preschool period may be viewed as the best time to encourage prosocial behaviour in children and inculcate optimal patterns of response for healthy social development.

Indeed, at the end of the preschool period, rates of aggression are typically lower in girls than they are in boys.11 Smetana12 observed that mothers responded to their daughters» transgressions by pointing out the consequences that the transgression would have on their peers, whereas mothers of boys responded with punishment.

Many of the behaviors associated with oppositional defiant disorder increase in frequency during the preschool period and in adolescence.

Previous studies examining categorical stability across the preschool period found few gender differences (Briggs - Gowan et al. 2006; Bufferd et al. 2012; Lavigne et al. 1998), but externalizing problems have been demonstrated to become more prevalent in boys than girls during the preschool period (Hay 2007; Rutter et al. 2003).

The lack of measurement invariance in profiles across ages in our study suggests that children are very likely to show different patterns of problems across the preschool period.

Moreover, because levels of externalizing problems are higher in younger than in older children (Fanti and Henrich 2010; Gilliom and Shaw 2004), we hypothesized profiles characterized by externalizing problems to be more prevalent at the beginning of the preschool period than at a later age.

However, although some studies found a decreasing pattern of internalizing problems across the preschool period (Carter et al. 2010; Sterba et al. 2007b), others found an increase (Colder et al. 2002; Gilliom and Shaw 2004).

Our first aim was to examine the development of profiles of problem behavior during the preschool period.

Crossover Effects Among Parental Hostility and Parent — Child Relationships During the Preschool Period.

This study shows that the presentation of problem behavior changes across the preschool period and that heterotypic continuity of problems is very common among preschoolers.

Cardiac vagal regulation across the preschool period: Stability, continuity, and implications for childhood adjustment

In conclusion, we showed that the presentation of internalizing and externalizing problems in the general population changes during the preschool period.

The current study was designed to examine profiles of internalizing and externalizing problems throughout the preschool period and examine the stability of problems over time.

The finding of a highly dysregulated group only at 6 years appears also in line with studies showing higher prevalence of comorbid DSM diagnoses at the end of the preschool period (Egger and Angold 2006; Lavigne et al. 1998).