Sentences with phrase «with poor language»

A study exploring paternal — child characteristics indicated that the father's resistance to accepting deafness was associated with poor language outcomes in the deaf child (Hadadian & Rose, 1991).

Mostly your «Other» file will be full of spam and hilarious messages from guys with poor language skills who think Facebook is a dating site.

This report suggests some children on FSM do badly at school because they have not had the best start in life and begin school with poor language or social skills, «not ready to learn».

New research has found children with poor language skills at the age of five are less likely to do well by the time they leave primary school.

Surely this was a chance for those schools in disadvantaged areas, who might perhaps have large numbers of children with poor language skills, to show off their hard work?

The private or third sector groups which would run job centres under a Tory administration would then be given a larger financial reward for finding those with poor language skills employment.

Given that poor communication skills are strongly correlated with violent behaviour in men, it seems likely that a father with poor language skills will be more likely to act violently towards both his partner and his children; or for family interactions to be less productive and pleasant.

Just a person with poor language skills.

Not exact matches

They were littered with poor grammar, obviously written by someone who doesn't speak English as a first language, stuffed with unnecessary over-use of keywords, and provided no useful or insightful information.

I'm sorry that your command of the English language is so poor, but it's funny to those of us with an education.

It's not the first nor the last time this poor excuse of an individual will regurgitate hate language no matter what the subject is with the only intent of getting paid... he would probably throw her mother under the bus if it had the slightest potential of attracting public interest...

The Bible (especially the lyrical King James version) is full of useful phrases and metaphors — indeed, that may be its most valuable contribution to civilization — and the English language would be poorer by far if we were required to use them only with the meaning and in the context in which they were originally written.

I think he's suprised and frustrated with how poor we've been this year and if not for the language barrier he may feel inclined to tell them.

Personally, I find it rather ironic that you're lecturing the blog author on the rigor of language, when, faced with the need to support the claims made by a documentary that has faced absolutely no real standards of intellectual rigor or merit (the kind of evidence you apparently find convincing), you have so far managed to produce a study with a sample size too small to conclude anything, a review paper that basically summarized well known connections between vaginal and amniotic flora and poor outcomes in labor and birth before attempting to rescue what would have been just another OB review article with a few attention grabbing sentences about long term health implications, and a review article published in a trash journal.

The reason it took so long for the penny being paid by the poor to drop is, I suspect, to do with the language that budget measures came wrapped in.

For example, «the whole idea that musical training and language development may be connected came from me talking to a couple of teachers who said they had students who were poor readers and who also struggled with learning to play a musical instrument and with copying musical patterns and wondered if those two things could be connected.»

But pretty soon he is detailing its failings: we are overconfident in our mind - reading abilities; we use our own mind as a template for others, yet confabulate wildly to make sense of ourselves; by stereotyping people we overemphasise differences; we are woefully poor at reading body language; and we constantly misapply our mind - reading talents, dehumanising others while imbuing inanimate objects with human traits.

Older age, lower education, psychotic illness, being a visible minority and having a native language other than English or French were associated with poorer cognitive performance; however these indicators could explain only part of the neurocognitive difficulties observed in this study.

Focus School: A school with persistent achievement gaps or poor performance among «subgroup» students, such as English - language learners or students in special education.

Making matters worse for immigrant children is the fact that many enter poor school districts with insufficient English language learner courses and certified teachers.

Children with special needs and those whose first language is not English are particularly vulnerable to the effects of noise and poor acoustics.

Children who enter reception with poor English language skills — whether it's their first language or an additional language — are more likely to struggle academically and have social, emotional and behavioural difficulties in later years, finds a new study co-authored by UCL and Royal Holloway and funded by Wellcome.

Lots of research talks about what happens in the first few years of a kid's life and how poor children don't get the support and input — things as simple as language or as complicated as an outlook on life, self - esteem, and how you interact with institutions — that middle - class kids tend to get.

But when it comes time for Congress to get down to actual legislative language, members will have to choose whether to open the door to all comers, including states with pitifully low standards (compared to those of the National Assessment of Educational Progress), deficient data and student - tracking systems, and a poor track record on including English language learners and students with disabilities.

She suspects it is because those living in poor families today have «poor health, limited access to home environments with rich language and experiences, low birth weight, limited access to high - quality pre-school opportunities, less participation in many activities in the summer and after school that middle class families take for granted, and more movement in and out of schools because of the way that the housing market operates.»

Focusing on academic issues are the less strident but still determined critics who say many non-native English speakers are graduating from school systems with poor reading skills in both English and their native language.

A child who comes to school malnourished, from a poor household, having a mother with less than a high school education, or a parent whose primary language is not English is much more likely than a classmate without those factors to have academic and behavioral problems later on.

«The research would suggest that there are a number of parents who start off with high aspirations for their children but gradually disengage, partly because the schools don't talk a language they understand, because they have poor experiences themselves with school and they find them frightening places to go to...»

In short, all children — but especially the poor who grow up without the language and book exposure to help them succeed — should be getting early - literacy instruction that balances basic skills with playful, content - rich language experiences.

Schools that report low achievement for English - language learners also report low test scores for white and African - American students, and share characteristics associated with poor performance on standardized tests, according to a study released by the Pew Hispanic Center.

And while refugees ultimately — after a period of six to ten years — have higher labor force participation and employment rates, and have similar welfare participation rates, relative to U.S. - born residents, they often enter the U.S. with low human capital and language skills and have initially poor labor market outcomes and high rates of welfare usage.

English - language learners, poor children, and students in special education — who cost more to educate — would carry with them more money than other students.

And even before California recently revamped its statewide K - 12 funding formula to concentrate more funds in schools with high numbers of ELLs and other vulnerable students, the district was targeting extra money to schools with the greatest number of poor students and English - language learners, he said.

Linda Darling - Hammond and colleagues have cautioned that statistical models can not fully adjust for teachers who have a disproportionate number of students with greater challenges, or whose scores on traditional tests may not accurately reflect their learning, such as special education students; English language learners; and those affected by poor attendance, homelessness, or severe problems at home.

When a TPS is failing, the union whine usually goes like this, «Our high school grads are reading on a third grade level because schools are underfunded, or because the students come from poor families, or English isn't their first language, or...» (Never explained is how charters usually get better results than TPS and do it with considerably less money.)

Aren't there some fine lawyers who would, preferably with pro-bono work, support families who have children with disabilities, all kinds of disabilities, or children who have second language hurdles, or the really really poor children, to sue the charter operators and their rich donors for denying these students a slot in their elite charter schools?

Connecticut experts with decades of educational experience working with Connecticut educators were replaced by five out - of - state consultants with virtually no experience working with the biggest issues facing poorer school districts; poverty, language barriers and the large number of students who need special education services.

Charter school supporters say they are providing opportunities for students in areas with poor traditional public schools to have a better alternative to get an education, and some have even framed it in language of civil rights.

And from being among the world's poorest, with a mix of ethnicities, religions and languages, Singapore has overtaken the wealthiest countries in Europe, North America and Asia to become the number one in education.

Is weak oral language associated with poor spelling in school - age children with specific language impairment, dyslexia or both?

Naturally, in a state with huge numbers of poorer and second language children, performance levels will be lower.

These include poor - quality content standards with unclear language, poor - quality and poorly aligned assessments, flawed school accountability metrics, and inadequate supporting materials, including textbooks and professional development.

Teach for America teachers work with not just the poor, but also English language learners and special education students.

Poorer students, non-English speaking students, students who go home to a household where English is not the primary language and students with special education needs show up far less often in charter schools.

Since poverty and language barriers are obviously factors as to who approaches the lottery process and who does not, it is not surprising that the «open enrollment process» ends up with fewer poor students, fewer non-English language students and fewer students who go home to households in which English is not the primary language.

However, students are not randomly assigned to teachers — and statistical models can not fully adjust for the fact that some teachers will have a disproportionate number of students who have greater challenges (students with poor attendance, who are homeless, who have severe problems at home, etc.) and those whose scores on traditional tests may not accurately reflect their learning (e.g. those who have special education needs or who are new English language learners).

What would happen if I had two middle schools in my suburban town and one had a lottery — and one didn't and the one with the lottery ended up with the students who are less poor, face less language issues, don't come from immigrant, have fewer special education students....

Democrats argued that rescinding the rules opens loopholes that states can use to shield poorly performing schools from scrutiny, especially when they fail to serve poor children, minorities, English - language learners and students with disabilities.

Charter schools who cream off the best students, refusing to take their share of the poor, those with language barriers or students who need special education services.

If Charter schools educate children who are less poor, have fewer language barriers and few special education needs, they will, by default, end up with high standardized test scores.