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Basic Healthcare for the Children of California

the state has focused on methods for improving access to care by gaining the support from organizations like Health Access Califor...

The Influence of Television on American Society

1977, p. 4). For children in particular, there is no activity that permits as much intake "while demanding so little outflow" (Win...

Assessment, Program Development and Program Evaluation for Students with Special Needs

(ODD). Conduct Disorder (CD) The behavior of children with conduct disorder typically violates the rights of others and it can b...

School Funding With Emphasis On Texas

a good ranking. Texas, like most states, has a number of special grants schools or school districts may apply for. One is the Opt...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Resources for Children and Adolescents of Gay or Lesbian Families

an idea that makes sense. In lieu of, or in addition to counseling, children are able to see that they are not the only ones who h...

Defining 'Curriculum'

contextual categories". While the direct instructional curriculum relies heavily on teacher instruction, the personalized context...

The Needs of Small Children

at a rather rapid rate until they are walking and by that time, their need for solid food is usually met. Yet, many theorists clai...

The NAEP and No Child Left Behind

This 4 page paper provides an overview of the issue of the No Child Left Behind Act and relates the major factors influencing thos...

The Causes of Learning Disabilities

settings, to demonstrate that educatorse and parentse are "on the same team" and that it is likely that they both want the same th...

Observation of a Child with ADHD

I observed his activities from 9 a.m. through lunch and into his playground period after lunch. There were multiple transitions d...

Sociology Applied to News and Music

no child support at all? Or that everyone who makes over $50,000 should be forced to pay some maximum amount to make up for the sh...

How I Survived Being Sexually Abused as a Child

I think of my aunt just inside the door well within earshot of what was happening right under her own roof. My story,...

Depression in Children and Adolescents

cause of death for 5-to-14-year-olds" ("Teen suicide"). Such statistics suggest that depression in childhood and adolescence can b...

How Punishment Harms Children

form of punishment but others take away privileges. In the latter case, a parent may rescind television-viewing privileges for a d...

Rearing a Happy, Loving and Productive Child: A Critique of the Scientology Philosophy

a child in an authoritarian way but rather essentially allow the child to do whatever it is that they want (Reitman, 2006). Scien...

Support Services for Gay and Lesbian Children and Adolescents

Although it is not uncommon to see gay and lesbian couples at the high school level, there are children who question their sexuali...