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Iris Menu; Lanxin Ji; Tanya Bhatia; Mark Duffy; Cassandra L. Hendrix; Moriah E. Thomason – Child Development, 2025
Preterm birth poses a major public health challenge, with significant and heterogeneous developmental impacts. Latent profile analysis was applied to the National Institutes of Health Toolbox performance of 1891 healthy prematurely born children from the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development study (970 boys, 921 girls; 10.00 ± 0.61 years;…
Descriptors: Child Development, Premature Infants, Cognitive Development, Scores
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Brito, Gabriel; Leon, Camila; Ribeiro, Camila; Trevisan, Bruna; Dias, Natália; Seabra, Alessandra – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2022
Evidence points to the possibility of promoting executive functions (EF) through school interventions. Little is known, however, about the effectiveness of this type of intervention in situations of social vulnerability. This study investigated the effectiveness of an EF intervention program applied with a sample of preschool children, in a…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Executive Function, Preschool Children, Foreign Countries
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Yamaguchi, Bruna; Silva, Adriano Zanardi; Araujo, Luize Bueno; Guimarães, Ana Tereza Bittencourt; Israel, Vera Lúcia – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Objective: The aim of this cross-sectional study was to evaluate the neurological/psychomotor development of children aged 0-5 years attending Child Education Centers in Brazil. Method: This developmental assessment included a screening test to identify which variables could be associated with risks for developmental delays. A total of 444…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Preschool Children, Child Care Centers, Child Development
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Kalland, Mirjam; Linnavalli, Tanja – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2023
The aim of the present study was to investigate the associations between social-emotional and language development in a sample of 3-5-year-old children in community-based early childhood education and care (N = 90). Children's theory of mind understanding, affect recognition and language abilities were tested with neuropsychological measurements,…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Social Emotional Learning, Intervention, Language Acquisition
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Melissa Pearrow; Whitney Walker; Jill S. Battal; Brian Daniels; Amy Kaye; Alexis Ervin – Middle School Journal, 2025
Early adolescence is a time of rapid cognitive, psychosocial, and physical development, and an array of contextual factors, such as systemic racism, exert significant influence. Universal behavioral health screening data of 4,234 middle school students were examined to explore the influence of demographic (e.g. ethnicity, race) and contextual…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Middle School Students, Urban Schools, Health Behavior
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Hammersley, Megan L.; Buchanan, Limin; Xu, Huilan; Wen, Li Ming – Health Education & Behavior, 2022
Dietary intake can affect the physical, cognitive, and socioemotional development of young children. Few studies have explored the relationships between dietary intake and the cognitive and socioemotional dimensions of school readiness. This study aimed to investigate the longitudinal associations between children's dietary intake in early…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Eating Habits, Social Emotional Learning, Foreign Countries
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de Mendonça Filho, Euclides José; da Silva, Mônia Aparecida; Koziol, Natalie; Hawley, Leslie; Bandeira, Denise Ruschel – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2022
Substantial evidence endorses the early assessment of cognitive development to promote children's developmental health and well-being. Especially in the Brazilian context, there is a paucity of standardized screening and assessment tools with normative data to evaluate young children. This study provided initial reliability and validity evidence…
Descriptors: Mother Attitudes, Cognitive Development, Item Analysis, Reliability