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Optimum treatment timing for orthodontic problems continues to be one of the more controversial topics in orthodontics. Especially regarding the correction of Class III malocclusion, there is little consensus as to proper timing or methods for correcting these problems. The orthopedic approach for gr...
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PMID: 21914432
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To assess the effectiveness of a home-based early intervention on infant feeding practices and "tummy time" for infants in the first year of life.
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PMID: 21810633
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A sample of N=126 preschool children ages 57 to 72 months were examined to explore whether bilingual children from an immigrant background have a higher risk of developing specific developmental problems of educational ability and whether specific precursors could be identified. 63 c...
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PMID: 21751532
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The first three years of life have been identified as key to promoting children's later wellbeing, and partnership working across the statutory and voluntary sectors has been proposed as one of the best ways to meet the needs of families. Child health clinics are attended by parents seeking reassura...
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PMID: 21121484
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Until recently, in the United States, the traditional way to identify students with Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD) was through the discrepancy model where student IQs were compared to their level of achievement. However, educators and researchers alike have questioned this model as a means to...
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PMID: 21044534
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The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of second tier intervention at-risk readers within the context of a Response to Intervention approach. The study was conducted in the Canary Islands (Spain), directed by research team ¨Dificultades de Aprendizaje, Psicolingüística y Nueva...
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PMID: 21044535
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With the reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in 2004, Response to Intervention (RTI) was officially introduced. Unlike the discrepancy model, which determines eligibility in special education with a discrepancy between achievement and ability, RTI was designed to provi...
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PMID: 21044536
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This study examined the development of literacy skills in children in a district that used a Response to Intervention (RTI) model. The district included children whose first language was English and children who were learning English as a second language (ESL). Tasks measuring phonological awareness...
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PMID: 21044539
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Response to Intervention (RtI), a cyclical process that incorporates assessment and instruction, is both an approach to prevent learning difficulties and to establish student eligibility for special education. Assessment results are used to determine students' initial knowledge and skill, their need...
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PMID: 21044540
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We conduct a sociocultural analysis of its building blocks, namely the definitions and assumptions embedded in the notions of "response" and "intervention". We used interdisciplinary theoretical and empirical insights about the cultural nature of learning and development to inform our analysis. We d...
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PMID: 21044537
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We evaluated the effects on academic, emotional and social adjustment from the information provided by parents, teachers and classmates. The results confirm the maintenance in the follow-up evaluation of the improvements experienced after the treatment, especially in the academic and social areas, i...
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PMID: 21044513
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Preschoolers' knowledge of the appearance of proper names was tested in three experiments with 25 boys and 22 girls from low-income families. Children from a Head Start program, whose parents signed a permission letter, participated. Their ages ranged from 3 yr. 6 mo. to 5 yr. 6 mo. (M = 52.2 mo., S...
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PMID: 21162446
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Early psychosis intervention programmes have been around for 20 years. The duration of psychosis has been hypothesised to be neurotoxic, and there is a critical period, postulated to be up to five years from the onset of psychosis for intervention before the psychosis becomes established. Early inte...
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PMID: 20938607
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SSLPs were seen as a trusted source of support and information for carers of pre-school children. Integration of oral health promotion into SSLPs has the potential to tap into early interventions which tackle the wider support needs of carers of pre-school children while also supporting the developm...
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PMID: 21046909
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The objective of this study was to develop a computerized test of prone extension to measure performance of prone extension in children 4 to 6 years of age. The participants were selected from kindergartens, comprising 132 boys and 107 girls with a mean age of 5 yr. 2 mo. (SD = 6 mo.). Sensitivity a...
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PMID: 21058600
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The aim of this study was to gain an understanding of the factors that facilitate entry of young people into the Australian mental health care system with a view to developing headspace service delivery in youth-friendly directions.
Fifteen semi-structured interviews were conducted with experienced...
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PMID: 20429678
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This descriptive study examined the readability levels of Individualized Family Service Plans (IFSPs). The readability of 85 de-identified IFSP documents developed by seven agencies that serve families and children enrolled in a county early intervention program was analyzed using Flesch Kincaid gra...
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PMID: 20608861
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Federal law mandates that early intervention (EI) programs provide care using a family-centered model. The purpose of this preliminary study was to investigate (a) the relationship that develops between physical therapists and parents during EI and (b) a possible link between this relationship and E...
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PMID: 20608860
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In the United States, interest in early childhood development has grown dramatically over the past two decades and continues to expand.Increasing public support for programs and services that address the needs of young children and their families provides numerous opportunities for social work inter...
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PMID: 20632660
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Recent trends in Japanese speech-language-hearing (SLH) therapy education are reported. The rapid growth of educational institutions has continued since our last report. The educational curriculum was established by the 1997 certification of Japanese SLH therapists, and is strictly applied to educat...
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PMID: 20639639
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This retrospective, cost consequence analysis examined three distinct outreach strategies used by a community-based public health agency to enroll uninsured, low-income pregnant women in perinatal health care services. The three strategies included outreach workers, liaison workers, and case manager...
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PMID: 20694876
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Parental investment (involving time or money invested in 3-year-olds) and child health were assessed as an outcome of (a) children's risk status (preterm vs. full-term birth) and (b) maternal resources (defined here in terms of their problem-solving skills in resolving caregiving challenges). Resour...
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PMID: 19963228
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The parent program proved to be easy to implement and a good opportunity to promote children's preliterate abilities at home....
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PMID: 20464658
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In summary, results are interpreted as a confirmation of the effectiveness of the training in the primary prevention of spelling problems. In spite of these results a small percentage of children remains that develops reading and spelling problems despite having participated in the preventive interv...
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PMID: 20464659
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The social information processing model does not explain relationally aggressive behavior. To prevent or reduce physical aggression, social information processing should be promoted among children of preschool age....
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PMID: 20464662
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Results indicated that families were generally satisfied with the areas of family life surveyed. Descriptive analysis suggested lower satisfaction ratings in the area of emotional well-being. Families also reported that their child's deafness had the largest impact on their emotional well-being. Fam...
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PMID: 19755640
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RIA may be a viable means of enhancing the language and literacy instruction that is delivered within preschool classrooms and, therefore, a means of enhancing children's language and literacy learning. Future directions for continued evaluation of RIA are discussed....
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PMID: 20375228
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PURPOSE: During the evaluation of language abilities, the needs of the child are best served when multiple types and sources of data are included in the evaluation process. Current educational policies and practice guidelines further dictate the use of authentic assessment data to inform diagnosis a...
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PMID: 19755638
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(1) Except for smoking and drinking habits, such lifestyle aspects as low-purine diet, low-fat diet, high-salt control and regular exercise had improved significantly and their percentages increased 37.1%, 26.2%, 25.7%, 24.8% respectively after management in the intervention group (P < 0.01). Except...
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PMID: 20450723
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Early intervention by diagnostic and early care centres, with the use of mixed models of psycho educational intervention that nevertheless also include an important percentage of behavioural elements, has proved to be capable of modifying the course of patients with autism spectrum disorders and is...
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PMID: 20200851
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Changes in the EI program that occurred after UNHS were increases in caseload size, percentage of caseload identified by UNHS, percentage of children fit with hearing aids by 6 mo of age, and percentage of children with profound hearing loss with cochlear implants. There were decreases in age of dia...
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PMID: 20211121
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Aboriginal Head Start in Urban and Northern Communities (AHSUNC) is a federally funded, national, early childhood intervention strategy that addresses the needs of Aboriginal preschool children and their families. A pilot study, based on principles of community-based research, evaluated an Alberta A...
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PMID: 20302684
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We estimate how the difference in birth weight across siblings impacts specific parental investments: breast-feeding, well-baby visits, immunizations, and preschool attendance. Our results indicate that normal-birthweight children are 5%-11% more likely to receive early childhood parental investment...
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PMID: 20355688
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This study explored perspectives of therapist's role in care coordination between early intervention (EI) and medical services, and identified strategies for improving service delivery. Fifty adults participated in one of six focus groups. Participants included parents, pediatricians, and therapists...
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PMID: 20170430
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Newborn hearing screening is currently performed routinely in many regional health-care systems in Spain. Despite the remarkable expansion in newborn hearing screening since 2000, its feasibility and the benefits of early identification and intervention, many major challenges still remain. In this a...
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PMID: 19962682
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The HSFS enables the collection of more complete data that highlight the progress in screening infants for hearing loss. However, data indicate improvements are needed to reduce LFU/LTD and meet the national benchmarks....
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PMID: 20297746
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Stepping Stones Triple P is a behavioural parenting training for families with a handicapped child, which has already been successfully evaluated in its country of origin, Australia. Within a multicentric study of several Social Pediatric Centers (SPCs) and further clinics/institutions in Germany, i...
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PMID: 20084587
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Jane Waldfogel, Terry-Ann Craigie, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn review recent studies that use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) to examine why children who grow up in single-mother and cohabiting families fare worse than children born into married-couple households. They als...
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PMID: 20964133
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The aim of this paper is to evaluate and report the impact of the Health Services Utilization Improvement Model (HUIM) on utilization and satisfaction with care, as well as knowledge regarding prevention, detection, and treatment of asthma, diabetes, tuberculosis, and child injury among low income h...
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PMID: 21086957
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MSFWs remain an underserved population with poor access to oral health care and multiple factors affecting oral health knowledge, attitudes and behaviors. A better understanding of influences on oral health knowledge, attitudes and behaviors within the population can assist in implementing appropria...
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PMID: 20359420
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I have coined to refer to the reality of children (and their parents) presenting in clinical settings with impairing child symptoms before age 3 (-5) years in the fields of (a) general development, (b) communication and language, (c) social inter-relatedness, (d) motor coordination, (e) attention, (...
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PMID: 20634041
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Motor skills have great impact on children in adapting to an environment and developing interpersonal interaction, cognition, and social behavior. Understanding what children can do and how they perform it is essential. Most motor tests seldom contain quality evaluation in the items or criteria. The...
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PMID: 20843658
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Significant benefits of intervention were found for children's conduct problems (regression coefficient (b) = -0.62, 95% confidence interval (CI): -0.01, -1.23), hyperactivity (b = -0.84, 95% CI: -1.57, -0.11) and peer problems (b = -1.24, 95% CI: -1.89, -0.59). The effect sizes were 0.26 for conduc...
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PMID: 20441066
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As part of its continuing mission to serve trustees and staff of health foundations and corporate giving programs, Grantmakers In Health (GIH) convened a group of grantmakers and education experts on May 27, 2009, for an informative discussion about ways in which preschools and schools are working t...
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PMID: 19957417
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We therefore conducted a study of those factors among children enrolled in Head Start Centers located in areas of New York City with high asthma hospitalization rates. Data were gathered from 547 children through an intensive home visit, and physical activity was measured on 463 children using the A...
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PMID: 19863284
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Between 2004 and 2008, North Carolina's Assuring Better Child Health and Development (ABCD) program quintupled the number of screening tests administered during Medicaid well-child visits to identify young children at risk for developmental disabilities and delays. Referrals to Early...
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PMID: 19697485
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The Bucharest Early Intervention Project is a randomized controlled trial of foster care as an intervention for young children who have spent most of their lives in institutions in Bucharest, Romania. The authors implemented an attachment-based model of child-centered foster care the...
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PMID: 19486847
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This study investigated moderators of change in an empirically supported family-centered intervention (the Family Check-Up) for problem behavior in early childhood. Participants were 731 2- to 3-year-olds (49% girls; 28% African American, 50% European American, 13% biracial) from low...
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PMID: 19485594
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Early Support is the England-wide government programme to achieve child-centred and family-focused services for children aged nought to five years with a disability or complex need and their families. Integral to the ethos of Early Support is the understanding that every decision should be influence...
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PMID: 19552112
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The results suggest that a brief early intervention delivered through parents can reduce current anxiety and associated risk and may have the potential to alter the developmental trajectory of anxiety in a high-risk group of young children....
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PMID: 19454916
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We discuss the optimal timing of early childhood intervention with reference to recent research in developmental neuroscience. We motivate the need for early intervention by providing an overview of the impact of adverse risk factors during the antenatal and early childhood periods on outcomes later...
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PMID: 19213617
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Children with preschool ADHD-C and EF disorders should receive training of EF for at least 3 years from age of diagnoses to improve their condition....
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PMID: 19280566
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Early detection and diagnosis of this disorder by means of neuropaediatric techniques and procedures plays a decisive role in being able to set up an interdisciplinary therapeutic approach, in which specific early intervention programmes are noted for their effectiveness. The aim of these programmes...
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PMID: 19280574
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