This study was designed to investigate whether the conservation of substance, weight, continuous quantity, discontinuous quantity, number, area, distance, length, and two-dimensional space are developed in sequence in the acquisition of conservation operations. More specifically, the purposes of the study are two-fold: (1) To assess the sequence and rate of...
Grief includes many feelings, some of the most common being disbelief, numbness, guilt, anger, and intense sadness. Parents may not have the answers or may not even have comforting words to offer a grieving
child. However, they can be willing to listen and to answer questions honestly even when the...
The world can be a scary place for young children. Things that seem perfectly safe to us look dangerous and harmful to a small child. These fears may seem ridiculous to us, but they are dreadfully real to the child. Try to see the world through a child’s eyes and...
The prevalence of childhood obesity and overweight has grown significantly in France in the past twenty years. Obesity is associated with many diseases such as metabolic syndrome, diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, cancer, and depression. These diseases once confined to adults are increasingly being observed in children. Thus there are...
This study investigated the impact of prosocial classroom and
home learning programs on children's prosocial behavior. More
specifically, it determined the influences of adult modeling and
encouragement in these programs on children's cooperating, sharing,
and helping behaviors immediately following the six-week intervention
programs, and six weeks after the programs' termination....
The transition to kindergarten can be challenging for many children who do not have the necessary skills to meet the demands of classroom settings such as paying attention, remembering instructions, and demonstrating self-control. Children who lack the necessary behavioral regulation skills to meet the demands in the classroom environment are...
Research regarding factors that promote high-quality implementation of school-based prevention programs has increased markedly over the past decade as it has become increasingly recognized that evidence-based programs are often not well implemented. Whole-school interventions may be particularly complex to implement because they are intended to involve all school personnel and...
The purpose of this research was to study the
effects of cerebral palsy on the ability to plan and
execute a gross motor movement, as measured by the
fractionation of Simple Reaction Time (SRT) into its
premotor (central) and motor (peripheral) components.
The experimental task required subjects (N = 10...
It’s not always easy to act responsibly. It’s tempting sometimes to lie back and let someone else take over. Or to blame another for what you did. Children are more likely to resist such urges if they learn at a young age that we all have to pitch in and...
The majority of self-concept and sociometric research on crippled
children has been comparative studies in which the disabled child has
been a minority member within a group of physically normal children.
This study takes a different avenue in that it investigated the self-concept and peer reputation of physically handicapped children...