News tagged with child vocabulary
Children's early gesture have important link to school preparedness (Video)
Children who convey more meanings with gestures at age 14 months have much larger vocabularies at 54 months than children who convey fewer meanings and are accordingly better prepared for school, according ...
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Feb 12, 2009 |
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Young children of unmarried parents fare worse when a father's support is court-ordered
Young children of unmarried parents who live with their mother and receive court-mandated financial support from their father exhibit more aggressive behavior than those who don't get any formal support at all, according ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
May 14, 2012 |
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YouTube spends $100 million to redefine TV
On a recent sun-kissed day, a trio of hot names made a pilgrimage to the ninth floor of the Four Seasons Hotel.
Jan 17, 2012 |
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Preschoolers' language skills improve more when they're placed with more-skilled peers
Preschool children with relatively poor language skills improve more if they are placed in classrooms with high-achieving students, a new study found.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Oct 26, 2011 |
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Primary schoolchildren can be great tutors
Results from a project run in 129 primary schools in Scotland, the largest ever trial of peer tutoring, show that children as young as seven to eight years old can benefit from a tutoring session as short as twenty minutes ...
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Sep 14, 2011 |
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Merriam-Webster adds 'tweet,' other new words
(AP) -- Here's something for your Twitter feed: "Tweet" has earned a spot in the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary.
Aug 26, 2011 |
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Home learning experiences boost low-income kids' school readiness
Home learning experiences that are consistently supportive in the early years may boost low-income children's readiness for school. That's the finding of a new longitudinal study that appears in the journal Child Development.
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Jun 17, 2011 |
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Long-term poverty but not family instability affects children's cognitive development
Children from homes that experience persistent poverty are more likely to have their cognitive development affected than children in better off homes, reveals research published ahead of print in the Journal of Epidemiology an ...
Apr 21, 2011 |
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Probing Question: What causes stuttering?
In the movie "A Fish Called Wanda," he's the guy who bungles the old lady's murder. In "My Cousin Vinny," he's the inept public defender for the accused. People who stutter are so often portrayed in popular ...
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Feb 21, 2011 |
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'King's Speech' earns praise from kids who stutter
(AP) -- A movie about a stuttering monarch, without sex, car chases or sinewy super heroes, hardly sounds like blockbuster box-office fare.
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Feb 04, 2011 |
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Preschool beneficial, but should offer more, study finds
As more states consider universal preschool programs, a new study led by a Michigan State University scholar suggests that two years of pre-K is beneficial – although more time should be spent on teaching ...
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Feb 01, 2011 |
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