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Black, Maureen M.; Yimgang, Doris P.; Hurley, Kristen M.; Harding, Kimberly B.; Fernandez-Rao, Sylvia; Balakrishna, Nagalla; Radhakrishna, Kankipati V.; Reinhart, Gregory A.; Nair, Krishnapillai Madhavan – Developmental Science, 2019
Stunting has been negatively associated with children's development. We examined the range of height by testing hypotheses: (a) height is positively associated with children's development, with associations moderated by inflammation and (b) home environments characterized by nurturance and early learning opportunities is positively associated with…
Descriptors: Body Height, Infants, Child Development, Physical Development
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Mattar, Jehan – Education, 2013
Young children who listen to music regularly demonstrate better development than those who do not. As children grow, their social, cognitive and physical skills can be enhanced by their relationship with music. The music of Mozart was introduced into the children's environment as a sensory background for the standard curriculum. The purpose of…
Descriptors: Classical Music, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Child Development
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Polat, Özgül; Sönmez, Aysegül – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2015
The aim of this research is to examine the effect of The Play supported Program designed for 60-72 month-old disadvantaged children on their readiness levels. The sample of the research has consisted of an experimental group and a control group, each having twenty 60-72 months old children (10 girls and 10 boys) at Göztepe Semiha Sakir Children's…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Young Children, Disadvantaged Youth, School Readiness
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Rutter, Michael; Sonuga-Barke, Edmund J. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2010
In this monograph, the authors have brought the findings of the English and Romanian Adoptee (ERA) study up to age 15 years and, in so doing, have focused especially on the question of whether there are deprivation-specific psychological patterns (DSPs) that differ meaningfully from other forms of psychopathology. For this purpose, their main…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adoption, Followup Studies, Young Children
Missouri Univ., St. Louis. Parents as Teachers National Center. – 1989
This paper presents normative data on height, weight, and body mass in a birth cohort studied prospectively from birth to the age of 7 years. Data are presented by gender and race. The cohort was meant to be representative of the St. Louis metropolitan area in that it included poor people's children, and especially black children who had rarely…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Blacks, Body Height, Body Weight
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Vorria, Panayiota; Papaligoura, Zaira; Sarafidou, Jasmin; Kopakaki, Maria; Dunn, Judy; Van IJzendoorn, Marinus H.; Kontopoulou, Antigoni – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2006
Background: Research suggests that institutional care has long-lasting effects on children. However, no study has longitudinally studied infants in an institution and their subsequent development at age four. Methods: Sixty-one adopted children aged four years who had spent their first two years of life in an institution were compared to 39…
Descriptors: Young Children, Infants, Attachment Behavior, Adoption