This book examines the links between environmental health risks and malnutrition; analyzes new data for the environmental health burden of disease that relates to children under five; and highlights how environmental health interventions are being created in developing countries…
Each year, millions of children in developing countries fall sick and die from diseases caused by polluted air, contaminated water and soil, and poor hygiene behavior. Repeated infectious also contribute to malnutrition in children, and subsequently impacts future learning and p…
The National Research Council (nrc), through the Center for Education (cfe), wishes to build on the work in early childhood it has already done. In particular, the nrc wishes to focus on research on young children and their learning of mathematical and scientific ideas. The work…
"Extending an 8-decade tradition of excellence, Red Book provides the most reliable and clinically useful information on the manifestations, etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment of more than 200 childhood infectious diseases. The 31st edition provides evidence-based g…
"Extending an 8-decade tradition of excellence, Red Book provides the most reliable and clinically useful information on the manifestations, etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment of more than 200 childhood infectious diseases. The 31st edition provides evidence-based g…
"Extending an 8-decade tradition of excellence, Red Book provides the most reliable and clinically useful information on the manifestations, etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment of more than 200 childhood infectious diseases. The 31st edition provides evidence-based g…
Current U.S. federal special education policy under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA, 2004) allows states to define their own criteria to identify young children with nonspecific delays for special education using the disability category option of developmen…
The purpose of this study was to develop and validate an assessment tool entitled the Algebra Curriculum Based Measure (ACBM) with the intent of measuring preschool children's sorting and classifying skills based on one attribute (color, shape, and size) and two attributes (colo…
During the past few decades, there have been significant social changes affecting children and their families. Fathers are assuming a more active role in child rearing, primarily as a result of increases in the numbers of women in the work force, and numbers of children in non-p…
Anthropometric indicators for the screening of malnutrition have repeatedly been shown to be predictive of subsequent death in prospective, community-based studies from several countries. The lesser grades of suboptimal nutrition need objective criteria for diagnosis. Simple ind…
The importance of early intervention for language disorders has increased the need for reliable and valid screening instruments. Because it is not economically or practically feasible to evaluate all children comprehensively, a screening instrument that utilizes observations fro…
Zinc status of Egyptian children 18-30 months and 6-10 years of age was characterized in relation to morbidity, growth, and socioeconomic variables. In a pilot study of children whose general nutrition ranged from adequately nourished to moderately malnourished, mean hair zinc w…
A 14-week parent training and emotion socialisation programme that aims to help preschoolers who have symptoms of ADHD by teaching parents new ways of interacting with their children. This clinician's manual outlines each session and includes homework forms and handouts for pare…
