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Home environment, pre-schooling and children’s literacy in sub-Saharan Africa francophone

African Evaluation Journal, 2022
Background: The sustainable development goal (SDG) 4.2 calls to ‘ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and preprimary education so that they are ready for primary education’.
Alexis S. Loye, Madri S. Jansen van Rensburg, Emile Ouedraogo   +2 more
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A Comparative Study of Graded Reading of Children's Books in China and Abroad [PDF]

Nongye tushu qingbao xuebao, 2022
[Purpose/Significance] By investigating and analyzing the current situation of graded reading of children's books at home and abroad, this paper compares the gap between children's graded reading at home and abroad, and carries out an in-depth study and ...
FU Baozhen
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Home Learning Environments of Children in Mexico in Relation to Socioeconomic Status

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
We explored the home learning environments of 173 Mexican preschool children (aged 3–6 years) in relation to their numeracy performance. Parents indicated the frequency of their formal home numeracy and literacy activities, and their academic ...
María Inés Susperreguy, Carolina Jiménez Lira, Chang Xu, Jo-Anne LeFevre, Jo-Anne LeFevre, Humberto Blanco Vega, Elia Verónica Benavides Pando, Martha Ornelas Contreras   +7 more
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Getting children home sooner on intravenous antibiotics with a Hospital-in-the-Home model of care for complicated appendicitis

Journal of Pediatric Surgery Open
Children with complicated appendicitis requiring prolonged intravenous antibiotics could complete their treatment under Hospital-in-the-Home (HITH). Evidence is lacking in identifying suitable patients.
Ling Chen, Sebastian K. King, Misel Trajanovska, Lynda M. Gaynor, Veronica Cerratti, Rosemary Burgess, Gregory J.G. Nolan, Warwick J. Teague, Penelope A. Bryant   +8 more
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Performing sedentary behaviors: Studying children's screen practices at home as affective assemblages

Digital Geography and Society, 2023
Growing concerns about children's sedentary behavior and health have drawn attention to their screen behaviors at home. However, this work leans on a deterministic and essentializing view of children, screen devices, and the home, such that it tends to ...
Apoorva Rathod
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Home Literacy Activities and Children’s Reading Skills, Independent Reading, and Interest in Literacy Activities From Kindergarten to Grade 2

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
According to the Home Literacy Model (Sénéchal and LeFevre, 2002, 2014), young children can be exposed to two distinct types of literacy activities at home.
Gintautas Silinskas, Monique Sénéchal, Minna Torppa, Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen   +3 more
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Bridging the Loneliness Gap: Depression, Connectivity, and Isolation in Pediatric Oncology Patients and Their Peers

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Loneliness is associated with adverse physical and mental health outcomes and remains understudied in children and adolescents undergoing cancer therapy. Pediatric oncology patients may be at increased risk due to medical isolation and disruption of social networks.
Charlotte N. Stahlfeld, Scott H. Maurer, Michelle D. Watkinson, John Nury, Elise Barberis, Molly C. Mack   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Early Body Mass Index z‐Score Change and Resolution of Severe Malnutrition in Children With Sickle Cell Anemia in a Low‐Income Setting: A Prospective Single‐Arm Extension Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Children with sickle cell anemia (SCA) in low‐income settings are at risk of severe malnutrition, but optimal nutritional management has not been established. We evaluated an intensified ready‐to‐use therapeutic food (RUTF) regimen in children with persistent severe malnutrition after initial treatment and assessed whether early ...
Safiya Gambo, Shehu Umar Abdullahi, Hassan Adam Murtala, Halima Kabir, Khadija A. Shamsu, Sari A. Acra, Virginia A. Stallings, Mark Rodeghier, Michael R. DeBaun, Lauren J. Klein   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Coblehaugh: an account of the redevelopment of a children's home

Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2014
The original building was purpose-built in the 1950s and provided residential care for up to 20 children and young people in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire in north-east Scotland. Over the years as residential care practices developed, this number reduced to a
Wilma Stickle
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Social Functioning Within the First Years After Pediatric Brain Tumor Diagnosis and the Relationship With Family Psychosocial Risk

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Survivors of pediatric brain tumors (PBTs) can experience long‐term social difficulties, impacting quality of life. Beyond medical and environmental factors, family psychosocial risk may play a role in social outcomes by shaping the caregiving environment and may provide intervention options.
Renske H. Houben, Marisa H. Huisman, Martha A. Grootenhuis, Femke K. Aarsen, Marita Partanen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source