In brief, children who are behind their preschool peers in language proficiency benefit greatly from rich verbal interaction with adults as 'they need more (vocabulary instruction); they need it sooner; and they need it with more intentional supports and scaffolds' (Taffe 2009, p. 321) than is required by their peers.
I can totally understand charging for a 2 yr old who has the actual ability to sit and watch a brief children's movie, but an 18 month old who'd be sleep before the previews could even finish is something else!
In brief, children were recruited from francophone schools in Quebec at age 6, where they were assessed through a variety of demographic, social and behavioral measures in several waves, representing childhood, mid-adolescence, early adulthood, and mid-adulthood.
In brief, children with SLI were aged from 5 to 10 years and either attended special schools for children with language impairments, or had been referred to a clinic for developmental problems.
In brief, children 10 years of age or younger admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and meeting pediatric-specific criteria for SIRS, sepsis, or septic shock were eligible for enrollment [ 19].
In brief, children aged <16 years with a new diagnosis of inflammatory arthritis present for at least 2 weeks, presenting to one of five UK paediatric rheumatology centres (Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Glasgow and Great Ormond Street), are invited to participate.
In brief, children visiting 1 of the 3 sites who were <5 years of age and had AGE (diarrhea [ >3 loose stools in 24 hours] and/or vomiting [ >1 episode in 24 hours]) for <10 days and who lived in 1 of the 3 study areas were enrolled, and a fecal specimen was collected.
The brief child version of the GBPS has 25 items for each parent [ 99].
Parenting capacity will partly be measured via the Brief Child Abuse Potential inventory (BCAP) which assesses the risk of physical abuse [ 37].
Brief Child Abuse Potential Inventory [ 66 ] (BCAP): will be assessed at 24 months CA. The BCAP is a 33-item measure of the potential for child abuse with strong internal consistency (α = 0.89) and correlation (r =0.96).
Participants verbally completed a battery of self-report measures, including the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the brief Child Trauma Questionnaire, which took 45 75 min to complete (dependent in large part on the extent of the participant's trauma history and symptoms).
