Sentences with phrase «study of children at»

In study after study of children at risk, the single strongest predictor of resilient outcome is a positive, lasting relationship with a supportive adult.

Stephen Jon Sheinkopf, PhD, has been a psychologist and assistant professor at the Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities at Bradley Hospital since 2001 and psychologist at the Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk at Women & Infants Hospital since 2005.

Research led by Barry M. Lester, PhD, director of the Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island and professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, found the single greatest contributor to long - term neurobehavioral development in preterm infants is maternal involvement — and that a single - family room NICU allows for the greatest and most immediate opportunities for maternal involvement.

Barry M. Lester, PhD, is founder and director of the Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk at Women & Infants Hospital, and Brown Medical School.

However, in a study of children at age 5 years who were breastfed and whose mothers were given a modest DHA supplement until 4 months postpartum, there was a significant improvement in sustained attention when compared to children whose mothers were not given DHA.

J. Bernard Gilmore's study of children at play has contradicted the popular notion that play is primarily a form of escape.

More to the point, that's Moss's life, which reads like a case study of a child at risk: too little attention paid early, and then too much.

For correspondence: Dr H L MacMillan, Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation, Psychiatry / Pediatrics Department, Center for Studies of Children at Risk, Chedoke Division, 2nd Floor, PO Box 2000, Hamilton, Ontario L8N 3Z5, Canada.

Not exact matches

«It is an ongoing process where parents perform the activities with their children, and they talk with their children about how they felt,» said Dwight Burlingame, a professor of philanthropic studies at

His family moved to Canada from Turkey when he was a child and, with the funds from the sale of a redesigned buzzer system for quiz show Reach for the Top, Lazaridis studied engineering at the University of Waterloo.

«It's all about shaping the child's behavior,» says Dr. Andrea Vazzana, clinical assistant professor of child psychiatry at New York University Langone's Child Study Cechild's behavior,» says Dr. Andrea Vazzana, clinical assistant professor of child psychiatry at New York University Langone's Child Study Cechild psychiatry at New York University Langone's Child Study CeChild Study Center.

A study of vocabulary growth in children from eight months to six years old shows that the size of spoken vocabulary increases from zero words at age eight months to 2,562 words at age six years.

We'll talk below about two studies involving school - age children, both led by Carol Dweck, a professor of psychology at Stanford University.

Kent came to mind this week when I read about the resignation of Yale lecturer Erika Christakis, an early childhood educator at the Yale Child Study Center.

In the study titled «What Would Batman Eat: Priming Children to Make Healthier Fast Food Choices» researchers at Cornell showed children pictures of role models before asking them to choose french fries or apple fries (raw apple slices) as part of theiChildren to Make Healthier Fast Food Choices» researchers at Cornell showed children pictures of role models before asking them to choose french fries or apple fries (raw apple slices) as part of theichildren pictures of role models before asking them to choose french fries or apple fries (raw apple slices) as part of their lunch.

Because ultimately, what the study proves is that we must increase the quantity and intensity of exercise both at schools and at home if we want our children to be more globally competitive.

The material was dispersed up to three meters away — nearly 10 feet — and a closer look at the study by Ars Technica found that about 70 percent of the dispersed material was at the height of a small child's face.

In a study published this year that tracked Best Buy's ROWE program, researchers at the University of Minnesota found that, while it had helped reduce employee turnover, women who took part still spent 10 hours more on child care per week than their male flextime colleagues.

The study said Coca - Cola, one of 10 global companies looked at by KTC, has committed to conduct 28 country - level studies on child labor, forced labor, and land rights for its sugar supply chains by 2020.

A study commissioned by the Broadbent Institute finds that the majority of Canadian families with children under 18 would get no benefit at all from the Conservatives» income splitting scheme — despite being the express target of the policy.

Judge and co-author John D. Kammeyer - Mueller of the Warrington College of Business looked at data collected as part of a multi-decade study that followed more than 1,500 California children who had scored high on intelligence tests.

Our research shows children have overcome some of these limitations through the development of fatigue - resistant muscles and the ability to recover very quickly from high - intensity exercise,» say Sébastien Ratel, Associate Professor in Exercise Physiology who completed this study at the Université Clermont Auvergne, France, and co-author Anthony Blazevich, Professor in Biomechanics at Edith Cowan University, Australia.

There is no benefit at all from income splitting for single parents, or for two parent families in which both earners are in the same tax bracket, including the middle and bottom income tax brackets; these families with children under 18 represent over half of all families that are the apparent target of the scheme, according to the Broadbent Institute study, The Big Split.

Before earning her law degree at the University of Calgary, Edmonton - born Marilyn Burns began undergraduate studies by correspondence at Athabasca University, making ends meet delivering newspapers in the early morning hours so she could stay home with her children.

It comes as a new study shows nearly 80 per cent of the British public see no signs of improvement for hundreds of thousands of vulnerable children who are at risk of serious issues such as neglect, poverty, bad health or homelessness.

Instead, why don't you teach your children to study hard and get a good education at a «real» college where they can learn «real» subjects like biology and astrophysics, instead of relying on a priest or a minister to teach them that mythical being created man and the universe?

«We must teach our children to love, but we are not doing so,» said the dean of Islamic Studies at al - Azhar University, one of the Muslim world's most respected schools.

The students at YDS were not predominantly the children of lifelong believers; they were not well shaped by church tradition and well read in the Bible, ready and eager to take on the red meat of critical study.

Mintz does not refer at all to research by developmental psychologists such as Jay Belsky of London's Birkbeck College and Alan Sroufe of the University of Minnesota; nor does he cite the huge, multicenter National Institute of Child Health studies, all of which suggest that more than 20 hours per week of child care beginning before the age of one correlates with a higher incidence of interpersonal difficulties by early grade scChild Health studies, all of which suggest that more than 20 hours per week of child care beginning before the age of one correlates with a higher incidence of interpersonal difficulties by early grade scchild care beginning before the age of one correlates with a higher incidence of interpersonal difficulties by early grade school.

It isn't long before somebody is asked to organize activities for the children, snacks for the children, then somebody doesn't like the subject matter of the adult study, somebody says it's going on too long, too short, and where's the music, we need somebody to play guitar, and who's going to organize the prayer at the end, and why do the children interrupt us all the time when we're trying to talk to God?

Jon D. Levenson is the Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies at Harvard Divinity School and the author of Creation and the Persistence of Evil: The Jewish Drama of Divine Omnipotence (Princeton University Press) and The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son: The Transformation of Child Sacrifice in Judaism and Christianity (Yale University Press).

That is, most study in diocesan seminaries and are trained to work in the more familiar Catholic settings of parishes - celebrating Masses, baptizing children, presiding at marriages and working closely with families in their parish.

«The University of Texas at Austin has cleared sociology professor Mark Regnerus of academic misconduct after he was excoriated by some in the media over a study showing that parents» homosexual relationships can have negative effects on children.

«A recent study at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine suggests that abstinence - only» education can be effective in delaying sexual activity among sixth - and seventh - grade children.

You can sit over there,» she says, arranging children at a reading table in one of the study rooms upstairs.

A recent comparative study of worldwide military and social spending indicated how at present 1.3 million dollars per minute on average are spent for military purposes; during the same minute 30 children die for lack of food or simple vaccines (WMSE).

The studies you point to are at worst biased and at best incapable of measuring the essence of a child.

Longman identifies the key fact by quoting a 1977 study by economists Spencer Spengler and Robert Clark: «Expenditures for the elderly at all levels of government exceed the amount spent on children, age seventeen and under, including the total amount spent on public education, by more than three to one.»

The article recounts how an ambitious team of research psychologists undertook to study the entire group of children born in 1955 on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, beginning with prenatal histories taken from the mothers and following up on each child's development at ages one, two, ten, eighteen, and again at thirty - one or thirty - two.

By affirming the importance of surrounding and supporting communities to poor children and children whose home life is in disarray, the Kauai study challenges us to reflect on what might be done to shore up, or at least to avoid damaging, these structures.

The great interest of the study arises from the fact that, as the years went by, the researchers noticed that many of the children they had identified as «at high risk» (i.e., children subject to four or more serious disadvantages) were able to lead satisfying and socially productive lives as adults.

I have personally been inspired by her in many ways, including but not limited to: having the courage to train for a marathon in Port - au - Prince because she had done it first, having the courage to raise my children here through many trials because she had done it first, having the guts to begin to study midwifery at the age of forty - because she had done it at the age of fifty.

This for Nathanson is a psychological task that at first seemed «overwhelming» and ultimately required «every iota» of knowledge she had gained through her study and practice of psychology — particularly the art of not sacrificing too much for her children: «Central to the mothering instinct within me is a predisposition to recognize and meet the needs of my children, voluntarily sacrificing my own at times when there is a conflict.»

Other studies will hopefully have helped inform those still wilfully piling their plates — or those of their children — high at the barbecue and grill.

A new study has found children who drink low - fat milk can be at increased risk of obesity when compared to children who drink full - fat milk.

The purpose of the present study was to investigate parents» perceptions of branded snack foods targeted at children, and the extent to which these perceptions are influenced by advertising messages.

I did not know until much later that the new books we were given at the first of every school year... the social studies, history, geography books... would be the books used by those children next year.

But as research indicates, childfree couples divorce more often than couples who have at least one child, despite numerous studies that indicate marital happiness plummets in the first year or two after the birth of a child and sometimes never quite recoups.

A second study, conducted by researchers at the University of Minnesota's Institute of Child Development, found that in children younger than age 3, levels of the stress hormone cortisol rose in the afternoon during full days in day care, but fell as the hours passed when they were cared for at home.

Another study conducted at the University of Minnesota included 137 families with a documented history of child maltreatment.