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Curfews for Young People

This 5 page paper gives an overview of curfew laws in the United States. This paper includes the lack of evidence that curfews pre...

WISC IV

The WISC was first released in 1949 as a downward extension of the adult IQ test. Wechsler revised it in 1974 and it has been revi...

Short Story Analysis: Three Literary Works

way his eyes move continually to the fact that he cannot stand to be touched: "Once, when he had been making a synopsis of a parag...

Obesity in American Children

While obesity observes no geographic or socioeconomic boundaries, it can be more prevalent in some groups than in others. It can ...

Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP): Treatment Of Attachment Disorders In Children

emotional growth and learning [through] a short term effort between a therapist and a horse professional [whereby] the participant...

The Positive Aspects of Spanking Children

is both ineffective and harmful. Still, parents must have some sort of technique for disciplining unruly kids. These are the two s...

The Model Minority Myth

Dr. Nakanishi points out that that a large number of Asian American students attend "multiracial, low-income...low-performing scho...

Television and Its Negative Effects on Children

comes to witnessing violence, there is a fear that the exposure to such things is enough to trigger violent behavior. In some inst...

Teaching Children to Read: A Research Guide

sound components of a word and so can break a word down by sounds (NRP, 2000; Kamii and Manning, 2002). The following is a classr...

The Controversies over Autism and its Impact on Treatment Choices

on the choices of families and on treatment options for autism. This study will consider the existing controversies, including as...

Language Acquisition, Early Childhood & SLI

development of language skills, an abnormal frequency of errors, and (also) errors that are uncommon in children with normal langu...

Speech-Language Therapy/Children w/ADHD

strategies used to identify the function of the target behavior" (Stahr, et al, 2006, p. 201). In other words, an intervention is ...

Obesity Community Health Intervention

factor in childhood obesity is the fact that television viewing tends to be accompanied by the consumption of high-calorie, high s...

Parental Rights in Adoption

decision based on the fact that Quilloin had "never exercised actual or legal custody over the child," nor had he been responsible...

Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy

cause of a childs disease or malady or because they use the accusation of MSBP as a ploy to avoid malpractice suits (Johns, 2007)....

Promoting Positive Attitudes in Children Towards Cultural Diversity

to resentment and bigotry. However, these fears can often be countered through education" (Hurwitt). One of the ways in which we ...

No Child Left Behind Act

actually based on true and accurate assumptions of how actual learning takes place. Many scholars, such as Johnson, argue that the...

Health and Poverty/Incidence of Childhood Asthma

engine contains features that help to limit a search. The writer/tutor selected "scholarly" material published after 10/01/2002 an...

A Case Study

inexperienced teacher whose pedagogical approach to teaching is not geared to a fourth grade level. What are the different perspe...

Learned Mothering: Raising a Child with ADHD

ADHD as they can impact social worker response and even the response of educators. Methodology The subjects of this study were...

Computers Use for Education and Leisure for the Visually and Hearing Impaired

use of computers increase or decrease the social interaction of the hearing impaired learners? Introduction Educators and ...

Language and Communication Problems Associated with Learning Disabilities (ADD/ADHD) in the School Age Child

maintain that these individuals experience "deficits in behavioral, emotional, academic, and social functioning" that follow them ...

Spiritual Development of Children

that is, promote and nurture this factor. While this examination will touch on the latter meaning, this emphasis is on the former,...

Child Abuse in America

adult fails to provide a child "with the basic needs and supervision to live a healthy and happy life" (Harris, 2007). Of the 1,49...

Summary and Review of Lynne Curry’s The DeShaney Case: Child Abuse, Family Rights, and the Dilemma of State Intervention

After putting a name and a face on the social issue of child abuse, and considering the dilemma of the social worker who seeks to ...

Juveniles Tried as Adults: A Problem Statement

the death penalty in juvenile cases (Brendtro and Mitchell, 2007). It was Kennedys contention that some of the elements that are ...

The Effect of TV Violence on Young People

62 percent of the time" (Tepperman, 1997). Perhaps the worst message of all is that "violence is pleasurable. Clint Eastwood, in D...

Child And Adolescent Development

not completely so This author states: "Personality development occurs by the ongoing interaction of temperament, character, and en...

bell hooks “Bone Black”

What hooks has described with all the innocence of childhood is the ugly reality of busing, a controversial and still roundly disl...

Human Services in Charlotte, NC

(Curtis, 2007). The League also runs four other philanthropic programs, which try to provide what these children need, "from tutor...