Vanesa Valero

• University of Murcia

Background: There are no validated instruments in Spain for measuring parental feeding styles. The aim was to validate the Parental Feeding Styles Questionnaires (PFSQ) in a Spanish sample. Method: A total of 523 mothers of 523 school-children participated. The children had a mean age of 4.4 years (SD = 1.3), with 51% being boys (M = 4.3 years,...

Articulation disorders are deficiencies in the realization of speech sounds unrelated to organic or neurological disorders. Over the last decade, there has been a debate on the efficiency of non-verbal oro-motor exercises, which are orofacial movements programmed and organized in an intentional and coordinated way to control lips, tongue, and soft...

The purpose of our research was to explore the role of both parents’ use of behavioural regulation with food and children’s emotional self-regulation in young children with and without overweight/obesity. For this purpose, 123 participants (n = 62 boys and n = 61 girls) were recruited and classified into two groups by their Body Mass Index (BMI, no...

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention program, based on music, movement, and dance, aimed at improving motor skills in children at risk of developmental coordination disorder (DCD). Participants comprised 70 primary school children (47 boys/23 girls) aged between 6 and 8 years. Participants were given the Spanish...

A la hora de analizar el uso que los estudiantes hacen de las herramientas docentes on-line, como es el caso de las webs didácticas, frecuentemente se recurre a las estadísticas globales de acceso. Si bien son medidas adecuadas, resultan poco específicas y no permiten conocer si hay diferencias en función de los tipos de recursos que el alumno tien...

This work sought to identify children’s temperament dimensions that are associated with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in school years. Temperament characteristics in children with ADHD (clinic group) were compared to those exhibited by a normative sample (control Group). The clinic sample was composed of 65 children (46 boys, 19 g...

Tradicionalmente, el concepto de función ejecutiva se ha utilizado para hacer referencia a un comportamiento adaptativo (Mesulam, 2002), que integra y combina habilidades cognitivas que están dirigidas a meta (Welsh, Friedman, y Spieker, 2005). Durante los últimos años se ha asistido a un creciente interés en el estudio de la función ejecutiva en l...