Sentences with phrase «received as small children»

Eric Berne observed that the original interpersonal «strokes» we received as small children were the warm satisfactions of being touched.

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This is no small matter, because, as the study points out, 30 million children receive meals at school each day and many of them rely on those meals for as much as half their calories.

SAGE advised that children under 2 years of age should receive the full dose, however, and it pointed out some practical problems as well, such as the need for millions of smaller syringes.

Saddled with an unresponsive public defender, Dee is offered a Faustian bargain: she can plead guilty, receive a ten - year probation, pay a small fine, and return to her children immediately, but as a convicted felon she'll lose her voting rights and be ineligible for government assistance.

As many of us have experienced with our own children, parents sometimes only receive a small, fragmented picture of their children's school work.

However, dogs that receive a softer diet, such as canned dog food, will need to have their teeth brushed just as you would do for a small child.

She received her veterinary medical degree from the Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine, and then went on to complete a small animal rotating internship at the New England Animal Medical Center outside of Boston, as well as a zoo medicine internship at the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo.

In Denver, low - resource families who received home visiting showed modest benefits in children's language and cognitive development.102 In Elmira, only the intervention children whose mothers smoked cigarettes before the experiment experienced cognitive benefits.103 In Memphis, children of mothers with low psychological resources104 in the intervention group had higher grades and achievement test scores at age nine than their counterparts in the control group.105 Early Head Start also identified small, positive effects on children's cognitive abilities, though the change was for the program as a whole and not specific to home - visited families.106 Similarly, IHDP identified large cognitive effects at twenty - four and thirty - six months, but not at twelve months, so the effects can not be attributed solely to home - visiting services.107

Though the positive effects of home visiting programs are generally small, these programs have been heralded by many as a key model of early intervention capable of producing long lasting effects for children and families and ending the cycle of poverty and are receiving unprecedented support as an evidence - based initiative.

Although treatment effects for several outcomes were small in magnitude, as reported previously, HS was modest in intensity and cost, relative to other early intervention efforts.5 For example, HS families made 11 well - child visits and received < 2 home visits within their child's first 2.5 years, at a cost of $ 402 to $ 933 / year.

Limitations include a small sample size and an inability to rule out the children's relationship with the therapist as a factor, since the waitlist participants received no treatment at the time of the study.

Limitations include small sample size, reliance on self - reported measures, participants who were in the play therapy group received twice as much time with counselors over children in the active control group, and lack of follow - up.

In some cases, the child will receive a small gift as well.

The small study, conducted by George DuPaul and Lee Kern of Lehigh University, focused on 47 young children with ADHD, all between the ages of 3 and 5; the AAP recommends all children under 6 receive behavior therapy as the first - line treatment for ADHD.