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Assessing the Young Child

Optimized outcome for children with special needs is dependent on early assessment and appropriate...

Psychological Therapy for Children

there is too much medicating of children and that the scientific evidence for its use is not at all convincing. Researchers have s...

ADVERTISING REGULATIONS: CHILDREN AND FOOD ADVERTISING

to be exposed to higher volumes of food advertising on television, with the goal of encouraging these children to eat unhealthy fo...

Ugandan Child Soldiers

turns ordinary children into child soldiers is methodical and thorough. The first step imposed upon Richard Opio, in 2000 when he ...

Observing A Child In A Naturalistic Setting

to each child. The capacity to embrace certain mental and emotional concepts improves with great strides as they are bound ...

American Children and Obesity

In this six page essay, the writer explores the growing issue of childhood obesity and offers behavioral solutions to this epidemi...

Review of "Filicide-Suicide: Common Factors in Parents Who Kill Their Children and Themselves"

descriptive study into this area. Purpose of the Study The purpose of the study is that which is stated by the authors in...

School Age Diabetic Children and APN Care

type 2 was associated with onset in later adult life. However, the epidemic of overweight/obesity, which is a known risk factor fo...

Setting Appropriate Goals for Children with Disabilities

reduce fluid retention in the brain and the ability to control for fluid retention (often resulting in the implantation of stents ...

Child Homicide

Grace and Whitehurst conducted through the University of Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, researchers separated filicide,...

Early Intervention for Children with Disabilities

their potential when programming begins early. Children who are diagnosed with disabilities and receive early services can begin ...

Checklists for Assessing Young Children

observation-based checklists are based on the use of the checklist at different points in a school year. For example, use of the ...

The Use of RTI for Children with Language Disorders

RTI can be designed to address those limitations or factors that influence the acquisition of literacy skills. The premise behind...

END-OF-LIFE ISSUES IN TREATING CHILDREN: PEDIATRICS, PALLIATIVE CARE AND ETHICS

Though it isnt talked about much, pediatric end-of-life issues are those with which a healthcare leader must deal. End-of-life iss...

Teaching a Child with Learning Disabilities

specific learning disability to concerned parents needs to reflect on the belief that learners with special needs have potential a...

Children with ADHD and How Teachers Perceive Them

low level of knowledge of ADHD as compared to national averages produced by the test developers. Null hypothesis: There will be n...

Intellectual Assessment of Adults and Children

perceptual reasoning had a percentile rank of 45, which is below average. The full scale of 100 is the exact mean average for this...

Piaget and Vygotsky/Theories of Child Development

goes forward when its pedals are rotated, until around age eight or nine (Harris, 2009). However, there are numerous instances rec...

Are Same-Sex Couples with Children Families

In 2006, for instance, surveys reflected that 30 percent of respondents stated that pets would count as family but gay couples did...

Women and Children as Products in the Sex Industry

Women and children have been exploited throughout history by those that seek to profit in one way or another from that...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Children Who Murder

of youthful homicide perpetrators present with a history of adverse familial factors," such as "physical abuse, sexual abuse, inst...