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Floor Vandecruys; Maaike Vandermosten; Bert De Smedt – Developmental Science, 2024
Children's white matter development is driven by experience, yet it remains poorly understood how it is shaped by attending formal education. A small number of studies compared children before and after the start of formal schooling to understand this, yet they do not allow to separate maturational effects from schooling-related effects. A clever…
Descriptors: Child Development, Reading Ability, Mathematical Aptitude, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Miccoli, Antonela; Toussaint, Loren L.; Smith, Latasha M.; Hansen, Carina K.; Lynch, Brian A. – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Early childhood is a critical period to intervene for obesity, developmental and behavioural problems. Data from 1065 children in 14 Northeast Iowa Community Action Head Starts (HS) were collected between 2011 and 2018. Body mass index (BMI) and developmental scores were assessed at the beginning of each school year and compared after the first…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Child Development, Body Composition, Body Weight
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Lewicki, Käthe; Franze, Marco; Gottschling-Lang, Annika; Hoffmann, Wolfgang – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2018
The general gender discourse has currently revealed gender gaps as early as at preschool age. To analyze developmental differences between boys and girls in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, n = 4,251 preschoolers aged 48-83 months were examined by means of the 'Dortmund Developmental Screening for Preschools 3-6' (DESK 3-6). Using the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Individual Development, Preschool Children, Gender Differences
Dereli, Esra; Akaroglu, E. Gulriz – Online Submission, 2011
People living in a society need socialization. While maintaining social relations, they learn behaviors approved by the society. Through art education, which is applied in preschool education, planned studying habits, taking responsibilities, cooperating, helping, developing solidarity habit and building positive relations with others are taught…
Descriptors: Individual Development, Child Development, Preschool Children, Family Influence
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Vallberg Roth, Ann-Christine; Mansson, Annika – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2009
The overriding aim of this article is to make a contribution to the discussion on individual development plans (IDPs) in Sweden as an expression of a regulated childhood and institutional practice. Individual development plans are seen as a phenomenon linked to the emergence of an auditing society. In sum, children are studied as subjects in…
Descriptors: Municipalities, Foreign Countries, Individual Development, Preschool Children
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Rihtman, Tanya; Wilson, Brenda N.; Parush, Shula – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
Purpose: The early identification of motor coordination challenges before school age may enable close monitoring of a child's development and perhaps ameliorate some of the social, psychological and behavioral sequela that often accompany unrecognized Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD). The purpose of this study was to develop and assess…
Descriptors: Evidence, Control Groups, Research Tools, Content Validity
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Drummond, Wilhelmina J. – Childhood Education, 1988
Discusses a private preschool/kindergarten program called the Growing-Up Learning Center, located in Baguio City, Philippines. Discusses both the philosophy and program objectives of the staff at the facility. (RWB)
Descriptors: Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Individual Development, Kindergarten
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Farrar, Michael Jeffrey; Goodman, Gail S. – Child Development, 1992
Examined four and seven year olds' recall of standard features of a repeated event as opposed to features that deviated from that event. Younger children had more difficulty determining which features occurred in the events. Concludes that younger children organize their memory for general and specific event episodes differently than older…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Elementary School Students, Individual Development
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Auxter, David – Psychology in the Schools, 1971
The results of this study suggest that one might question the locomotor developmental level of the child with a learning disability. (Author)
Descriptors: Child Development, Individual Development, Learning Problems, Motor Development
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Lowenthal, Barbara – Early Child Development and Care, 1998
Describes the variety of possible effects of traumatic brain injuries (TBI) on early childhood development in the cognitive, language, social-emotional, motor, and adaptive domains. Suggests interventions which can assist young survivors and their families. Suggests that more long-term, intensive studies be conducted on the short- and long-term…
Descriptors: Brain, Child Development, Early Intervention, Head Injuries
Muralidharan, Rajalakshmi – 1969
There is a major project in India to collect data for the generation of developmental norms of children from 2 1/2 to 5 years of age. The pilot study of this project, whose main objective was the adaptation of measures of developmental parameters to the unique needs of India, was reported to PS 003 284. The present document reproduces a study that…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cross Sectional Studies, Group Norms, Individual Development
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Hatton, Deborah D.; Bailey, Donald B., Jr.; Burchinal, Margaret R.; Ferrell, Kay Alicyn – Child Development, 1997
Used growth curve analysis to describe the development of 186 preschoolers with vision impairments. Found that mental retardation and developmental delay were associated with lower developmental ages and slower growth rates. Visual function of 20/800 or worse was associated with lower developmental ages and slower growth rates in personal-social…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Delays, Developmental Disabilities, Disabilities
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Fivush, Robyn; And Others – Child Development, 1992
Investigated the manner in which the temporal order and variability of events influence three and seven year olds' event representation. Children participated in three events: a logical-invariant, a logical-variable, and an arbitrary-invariant event. Both the structure of the event and children's representational capabilities influenced children's…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior, Child Development, Developmental Stages
ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education, Urbana, IL. – 1997
It is only natural for parents to wonder occasionally if the development of their preschool child is going well. Noting that psychologists have developed many normative scales to indicate how an individual child compares with others of the same age in similar populations, this parent brochure provides guidance for evaluating a child's behavior and…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Behavior, Child Development, Developmental Stages
Sinclair, Caroline B. – 1971
This study was undertaken to determine the progressive development in movement and movement patterns (coordinated movements of body parts used involuntarily to achieve an objective) of children 2- to 6-years-old, to identify general characteristics which may be studied for appraisal of growth and development, and to study variations in movement…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Growth Patterns, Individual Development
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