Sentences with phrase «skills than boys»

Table 2 also indicates that the polychoric correlations between child's sex and social skill dimensions were always significantly negative, meaning that girls consistently showed higher social skills than boys.

«Based on our research criteria, parents report that the girls in our study with autism seem to have a more difficult time with day - to - day skills than the boys,» says Allison Ratto, Ph.D., lead author of the study and a clinical psychologist within the Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders at Children's National.

Not exact matches

Boys rely more on physical movement and spatial perception in engaging the world than on language skills.

Because girls» capacity for language (located primarily in the left brain) matures earlier than boys», they rely more on verbal skills in solving problems, including nonverbal problems such as spatial tasks.

My idea is that we would spend our non-electronic hours improving the boys cooking skills, while doing something non-sporty, non-superhero-y, and a little more calm than their ordinary activities.

I have always talked bout sissoko, the boy is good, imo he's better than ramsey got power pace n skill

The Basketball Jones Hoop Camps program meets the needs of all skill levels for any boy or girl ages 7 - 15, with over 200 camps under our belt and more than 15,000 former campers.

I think we missed an incredible opportunity with balotelli, that boy has mad skills, more ability than you can shake a stick at and a fire that burns inside of him which if channeled correctly would work in his favour!

When these four seniors were told they were being put on second string for political reasons, The four younger boys got snbippy saying they guessed that pedigree counted for more than skill.

As it currently stands, he's home with our boy a few hours more per week than I am, so I have confidence in his parenting skills and have marveled at what he CAN do that I CA N'T (like put our son down without nursing him or getting him to eat solids without a battle — impossible for me).

Boys generally take longer to master these skills than girls.

Also, many boys will develop social skills later than girls, so be patient.

Since boys at highest risk of becoming early fathers can be identified from age eight (see below) engaging with such young males in highly specialised programmes early on (to teach basic life skills, address negative peer influences, promote school success and direct them to alternatives other than early parenthood) is indicated, in order to reduce sexual risk - taking and early fatherhood (Thornberry et al, 2004)

Baby boy's will generally develop gross motor skills, the skills responsible for full - body movement and locomotion, quicker than girls.

Baby boys are a handful, and they often start to develop motor skills a bit quicker than baby girls.

Often, girls will develop emotional and social skills more rapidly than boys.

These skills and behaviors come together at the different ages depending on the child, but it's rarely before the age of 18 months, and — yes, it's true — boys often train later than girls.

She talks about how boys tend to speak later than girls, so be patient and how she learned from her speech therapist that sign language counts as a verbal skill.

On average, by the age of 16, girls at the school were doing better than boys, even when both sexes had the same reading skills at age 12.

Data from a secondary school in East Anglia suggest that one popular idea — that girls have good literacy skills earlier than boys and can therefore use these skills to accelerate their learning — does not provide a complete explanation for their subsequent success.

Here, a referral suggests that the teacher perceives the student as having social, emotional, or behavioral skills that are problematic enough to warrant outside help, reaffirming earlier research showing that teachers perceive misbehavior by black boys as more aggressive and problematic than misbehavior by white boys.

Well - developed language skills may contribute to girls being better able to express their needs and desires than boys.

I had no expertise; few skills; I could no more save the African heartland from a mystery virus than a comic - strip boy could have done.

They had the opportunity to do what surfing movies have done so well in making it seem like a sport you'd actually want to spend a lifetime doing, but instead it looks like the boys want to do it for the money more than anything else, and they aren't doing for the love as much as for the fact that they spent so much time doing it that they have no real marketable skills otherwise.

We do get a feeling like this guy spent a lot of his free time reading too much Hardy Boys novels, because a few of the «detecting» skills Jeffrey shows are less than brilliant.

Boys have a thirst for knowledge but are often less mature learners than girls and they can be slower to grasp key skills, particularly literacy.

And the NAEP data are clear, if not as dramatic as some selected state data: boys, on average, perform less well than girls on tests of reading and writing skills and low - income boys do less well than higher - income boys.

Help students look ahead: PISA finds that, on average, boys are more likely than girls to have acquired a set of skills that could help them to navigate the job - search process, to apply for a particular job, and to succeed in job interviews.

However, on measures of fine motor skills and self - control, girls usually perform better than boys, and these skills clearly contribute to early school success.

Fearless, curious, and strong, Beryl learns a warrior's skills with Kibii, a Kipsigis boy, and dreams of a life larger than the confines of domesticity.

I wasn't overly confident going into an online match as I was all too aware that my skills in SF: V were more than sub-par, and boy was I proved right.

Men seem almost immovable specks — the cranes move slowly, the river drifts around the cofferdam, a distant hum of motors blend with the splash of the water... Energy, calculation, size, skill, and knowledge they have and require but they are little more than magnified toys nevertheless, and pride in them certainly compared to a boys delight in the first machine he made.»

Camp Kupugani Multicultural Summer Camp — Less than two hours from Chicago, Camp Kupugani — in separate girls - only, boys - only, and blended sessions — provides a multicultural camp focusing on communication skills and fun, so children aged 7 to 15 expand comfort zones.

The brains of males and females could be structured differently (nature); boys could receive more encouragement from adults to engage in activities that promote spatial skills (environment); or boys could have an innate preference for such activities and improve their abilities through greater practice than girls, who prefer other activities (interaction).

Despite the fact that gender and age impact children's own emotion regulation skills, with girls being more expressive and regulated than boys, and with older children showing more sophisticated emotion expression and better emotion management (Morris et al. 2007), our exploratory results seem to suggest that dyadic emotional processes of AD and non-AD parent - child dyads do not differ by gender and age.

But when you sit down and put your mug of tea on a palette - wood coffee table that you've spent three hours in the garage working on with your boy, having a laugh and learning new skills, saving something from landfill, that is a million times more rewarding than looking at something that you bought with the money you earned.»