Ms. Fanelli, the teacher, said an awareness of the short attention spans of children with developmental disabilities was crucial to reaching them.
Is there nowhere left where childless (or child-free) adults can go and avoid the whining, restlessness and general short attention spans of children that already interfere with enjoying upscale cruising, first-class travel and many fine restaurants?
While most educators lauded the effectiveness of Sesame Street in teaching children basic skills, some complained that the show shortened the attention spans of children and that teachers could not compete with the show's fast-paced entertainment.
Our choice of using WeeFIM was based on the age span of our children with developmental disabilities and on the assumption that functional independence of a child is directly proportional to the burden of care affecting the family.
With adversity, psychosocial manifestations, and cognitive delays spanning much of the life span of the children in this study, the three year follow-up period does not offer sufficient within-child variation to disentangle these effects.
Who among us is not disturbed by the thought that on current chronic disease trends, the average life span of our children may be shorter than our own because of the curse of our modern diet and sedentary lifestyle?
In the 1990s, some studies already reported the risk of postnatal parental smoking [ 5, 16]: however, these findings were criticised because they either inquired after smoking behaviour in the 2 weeks after the child was deceased (instead of the entire life span of the child) or they could not correct for the putative confounding effect of the socio-economic status [ 19].
This "whole span" of death – child, adult, parent – was "unbelievably, searingly painful.
Again, she was off and away shortly after I began. I recount these micro-anecdotes not to show the short attention span of my child, but because they came to mind when I read of a new initiative launching in the US KinderGuidess.
