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Health Challenges to U.S. Children

serious health challenge for keeping Americans children healthy is the fact that childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportion...

Africa and Promoting the Immunization of Children

II. Population The target population for this inquiry are children of the world. However, the population needs to be narrowed as...

Impoverished Children and Better Nutrition Promotion

spiral effect of poor nutrition, Americas obesity epidemic now has led to the emergence of a developing diabetes epidemic as well ...

Overview of Sleep Apnea

symptoms (Zepf, 2003). The "gold standard" for diagnosing sleep apnea is to use polysomnography in a sleep laboratory (Zepf, 2003)...

Impoverished Children and West Harlem's Better Nutrition Promotion

effect of poor nutrition, Americas obesity epidemic now has led to the emergence of a developing diabetes epidemic as well (Mason-...

Children and Media Violence

games and the computer, it rises up between 35 and 55 hours a week (Gentile et al., 2004; 1235). Through this much media exposure ...

The Huge Decision to Have a Child

journey. But, in making the decision to have a child one looks within themselves and examines if they are the type of person who c...

4 Journal Articles on Youth Sports

at different ages (Libman, 1998; Stryer et al, 1998). Childrens mental and physical abilities develop at different rates and this ...

Canadian Children and Poverty

only is "the rate of child poverty ... growing" particularly among recent immigrants and native peoples, but the widening gap betw...

Book Review of Lisa Delpit's Other People's Children

teacher instead acts as a "chum," the message sent is that this adult has no authority, and the children react accordingly" (Delpi...

Children Who Are Orally Deaf Speech Evaluation

cochlea and, in turn, electrical signals are passed on to the acoustic (auditory) nerve where they travel to the brain (Bowdler an...

Deprivation Consequences and the Acquisition of Language

that there are cognitive structures that are "hardwired" in the human brain concerning language acquisition, but Lennebergs perspe...

Summary and Analysis of NCLB Act

contends that by including parents in the overall educational aspect provides a hands-on approach to fortifying existing programs,...

Change and High Stakes Testing

a high school diploma, as well as promotion from grade to grade (Alexander and Alexander 361). However, the US Supreme Court has b...

Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Children and Ecological Systems Theory

2005). The mesosystem layer connects the various components of the childs microsystem, perhaps a teacher with a parent, a church ...

Children and the Psychological Effects of PTSD Associated with Hurricane Katrina

illness. Post traumatic stress syndrome can result from diversity of causes including the horrors of war, sexual abuse, or even s...

Communication and Autistic Children

2003). Scientists have learned that it is necessary to first expand some basic skills in autistic children before communication c...

Joseph Abruscato's Teaching Children Science and an Example of 'WebQuest'

http://www.kidzone.ws/animals/bats/facts1.htm A web-friendly search engine that is appropriate for elementary-age school children...

American Revolution and Family Metaphors

of England. It is not something that seemed fair and of course, the colonists had a restless, adventurous spirit and one that drov...

NCLB and AR Program

determining comparative success in educational. The NCLB has not only redirected educators to a "teach to the test" method for in...

Faust, Dimitrovsky, and Shacht's Naming Difficulties in Children with Dyslexia

subject population of 30 students, 15 of whom have been diagnosed with dyslexia and 15 typically functioning peers in Grades 3-4 a...

Latino Parents' Treatment Compliance Barriers for Children with Diabetes

Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT) may be necessary for the diagnosis of diabetes when the FPG is normal (Lamendola, 2003). Researcher...

Impoverished Children and the Impact of Preschool Programs

the United States and the negative impacts on the development of early academic skills, these types of programs have increasing va...

Health Benefits of Child and Adolescent Exercise

children who are inactive because of television viewing. This study found that children who were inactive because of television v...

Case Assessment of Neurological and HEENT Assessment

muscle responses and her muscle strength appeared normal. She complained of pain during assessments of physical condition, but th...

Education and Social Cognition

cognition indicates that the mind is an active force that "constructs ones reality, selectively encodes information, performs beha...

An Article Critique on ADHD

Studies conducted by Chelune, Ferguson and Richard and Lou, Henriksen and Bruhn all suggest the theory of "frontal lobe underactiv...

Girls, Dolls, and Concepts of Gender

parents who have androgynous attitudes toward behavioral expectations (that is, do not push children to pay with gender appropriat...

Child Development Activities 2

floor so the babies can crawl inside and play" (Miller, 1991) Begin to spark imagination "Have blankets and scarves for infants ...

Preschool and Adolescent Development in Terms of Physical, Cognitive, and Social Development

is a time for considerable growth and learning, so it stands to reason that with the child a veritable sponge of curiosity, he or ...