Children - Science topic

This article examines the discipline of Clinical Linguistics. It describes the scope of Clinical Linguistics as the application of linguistic concepts, theories and methods to the study of disordered language. Several distinctions that lie at the heart of Clinical Linguistics are set out and the relationship between the academic study of disordered...

Submit a paper to the Special Issue of /Children/: Children With Cancer Diseases: The Present and a Challenge for the Future (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/children/special_issues/ZN5AS943Z3)

Background Many countries worldwide face the problem of underdeveloped fundamental movement skills (FMS) in children. Active play (AP) holds significant potential for enhancing children’s FMS based on its free-choice and unstructured nature, as well as its ease of implementation and dissemination. Therefore, the primary objective of this systematic...

Background Serum vitamin D deficiency is intricately linked to metabolic disorders, however, evidence on its association with continuous metabolic risk in children and adolescents remains insufficient. This study aims to elucidate the relationship between serum vitamin D levels and continuous metabolic risk. Methods The cross-sectional analysis in...

Educational robotics is a sector that is being integrated into classrooms to achieve innovative and effective learning in the early stages of children’s education. However, it is not only applied in education but has great importance in its use with children with special needs to improve their quality of life. The convenience of robots applied to i...

Values or principles are key elements of human society that influence people to behave and function according to an accepted standard set of social rules to maintain social order. As AI systems are becoming ubiquitous in human society, it is a major concern that they could violate these norms or values and potentially cause harm. Thus, to prevent i...

Background Influenza virus is a contagious respiratory pathogen that can cause severe acute infections with long-term adverse outcomes. For paediatric patients at high risk of severe influenza, the readmission and the associated risk factors remain unclear. Methods Children discharged with a diagnosis of severe or critical influenza from October 2...

This study examines the triangle assessment method used in a bilingual preschool setting in Oman. The study focuses on how the teachers use the method to assess and document children’s mathematics and literacy learning in individual activities. It aims to contribute to academic interest by investigating formative assessment processes in an early ye...

This study evaluated the effectiveness of an educational program for the prevention and management of multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) in children. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of school teachers' knowledge on the prevention and management of MIS-C. MIS C is a serious disease associated with COVID-19. Symptoms of many d...

Safety villages are interventions that aim to boost children's knowledge and behaviour regarding risk-taking behaviours and their consequences via an experiential learning approach. In safety villages, children experience scenarios involving risks that resemble real-life situations. We investigated the extent to which desirable learning outcomes fr...

Este trabalho teve como objetivo a investigação das consequências associadas à exposição à violência doméstica na infância por meio de uma revisão sistemática de literatura. As buscas foram realizadas nas bases de dados Scientific Eletronic Library Online (SciELO) e PubMed, utilizando como palavras-chave em inglês Consequences of domestic violence,...

Prior work has yielded mixed findings regarding the relationship between language control and domain-general inhibitory control. Here, we tested the possibility that omnibus language ability would moderate the relationship between language control and inhibitory control in bilingual children. We tested 43 Spanish-English bilingual children (ages 4–...

Distance education has gained magnitude post-COVID-19, requiring an understanding of learners’ motivations. This study at the University of Akureyri used a mixed- methods approach to identify three key factors: flexibility, educational growth, efficiency. While gender, age, residence, and education level showed no significant impact, having childre...

This is the protocol for a Campbell systematic review. The objectives are as follows. (1) Examine whether secondary and tertiary interventions delivered outside of the criminal justice system are effective at countering the cognitive and behavioural radicalisation of children and adolescents by synthesising evidence relating to relevant primary and...

Ortodontic treatment is an important effort to improve dentocraniofacial structure in both children and adults. However, public perception regarding ortodontic treatment by general dentists and specialist ortodontists still needs to be better understood. This study aims to examine the perceptions of FIKOM and FISIP UPDM(B) students toward ortodonti...

Zusammenfassung Häusliche Gewalt verursacht nicht nur unermessliches Leid bei den Betroffenen, sondern stellt auch ein gesellschaftspolitisches Problem dar, weil sie im weitesten Sinne Gegengewalt erzeugt. Kinder und Jugendliche, die von elterlicher Paargewalt betroffen sind, haben nicht nur ein höheres Risiko, selbst Opfer von Gewalt zu werden, so...

The booklet provides support for the treatment of cancer in children and takes you on a journey in several chapters. The care provided has been detailed in order to guide all care from the simplest to the most complex, aiming to increase understanding of the treatment and consequently adherence to the medication treatment. Adverse events can thus b...

This study will investigate how children acquire the option to drop the subject of a sentence, or null subjects (e.g., “Tickles me” instead of “He tickles me”). In languages that do not permit null subjects, children produce sentences with null subjects from 1 to 3 years of age. This non-adultlike production has been explained by two main accounts:...

Dependent group-oriented contingencies (DGOC) are those in which the consequences for a group of students is dependent on the performance of one member or a small subsection of the group. There have been several reviews of group-oriented contingencies but none focusing solely on DGOCs to the exclusion of independent and interdependent types of grou...

Extracurricular sport can promote the development of physical literacy of young people with autism provided they are given adequate opportunities to participate. In an attempt to test whether children and teen with autism have equal opportunities to participate, this study analysed parental perceptions of environmental barriers to participation in...

Primary immunodeficiency is a cluster of disorders resulting in impaired function and/or development of the immune system that

In today's world, brazen sexual expression saturates our culture. While the sexualization of people is not new, the constant media focus on sexuality—especially involving children—has heightened public attention in troubling ways. This raises a pressing question: Are we unintentionally normalizing children’s reflections on their own sexuality at to...

It is well established in the literature that the relation of spatial ability and the number representation, but the intrinsic relation of spatial visualization ability and number representation are not well understood. In the Current study, Chinese Preschool children (N = 200; 107 girls; Mage = 5.47years, SD = 0.67) completed two kinds of spatial...

Background: Although self-compassion has been consistently linked to positive outcomes in adults and adolescents, only a few studies have explored self-compassion in children and early adolescents due to a lack of measures specifically designed for younger populations. Methods: The current study explored the psychometric properties of the Italian t...

This edited book has 25 articles related to different aspects of adolescents and children mental health.

zet Diş Hekimliğinde endodontik enfeksiyonlar oldukça sık karşılaşılan dental durumlardır. Çocuklarda da en sık görülen dental enfeksiyonlardan biri endodontik enfeksiyonlardır. Endodontik enfeksiyonların tedavisinde doğru endikasyon durumunda antibiyotik kullanımına karar vermek, doğru dozda ve doğru sıklıkta antibiyotik kullanımı antibiyotik dire...

Background: Health risks are increased in developing countries like Bangladesh by inadequate WASH facilities, yet there is a chance to improve through awareness and good practices. This study investigates the knowledge, attitudes and practices of schoolchildren in Dhaka city about WASH, speculating on gender-based differences in awareness and habit...

Plain language summary Understanding how families support children with intellectual disabilities: a study using the FACES-20Esp Scale Families play a crucial role in supporting children with intellectual disabilities, but the challenges they face can vary. This study looked at how 480 families are doing by using the FACES-20Esp scale. We wanted to...

Human movement behaviour typically unfolds in 24-h cycles, with children being additionally influenced by their parents. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the adherence of 3–10-year-old children to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 24-h movement behaviour guidelines in relation to the behaviours of their mothers/fathers. Data...

Family literacy interventions, encompassing both meaning‐ and code‐based activities, have generally demonstrated positive outcomes in fostering children's literacy and oral language skills. Despite the overall positive impact, the effectiveness of these interventions varies, and the distinction between the specific mechanisms underlying each approa...

Una de las principales causas de discapacidad infantil es la parálisis cerebral, que genera consecuencias físicas o motoras y cognitivas. Por ello, es fundamental evaluar el estado de las funciones neurocognitivas, particularmente la atención, para diseñar planes de rehabilitación que se ajustan a las necesidades de cada niño. Este estudio tuvo com...

Bondowoso is one of the 3 cities with the highest stunting rates in East Java. This social project aims to introduce a healthy and clean lifestyle to elementary school students in Pancoran 3, Bondowoso Regency. to overcome the stunting often experienced by elementary school children, especially adolescent girls. In addition, this project also aims...

The paper presents a unique interactive model technology for achieving the journey-to-others educational perspective. It suggests mobilities oriented to the formation of activity, purposefulness, and constructiveness in children as prerequisites for self-assertion on the way to others. The paper also specifies thematic emphases, objectives, and opt...

Numerous studies have shown that in novel noun generalization tasks, the simultaneous presentation of multiple learning examples increases the percentage of generalizations that are based on a priori less salient properties, compared to the presentation of a single learning example. In this research with preschoolers ( n = 300) we demonstrate that...

Nutrition issues in primary school-age children are still a major concern, with many students not understanding the concept of balanced nutrition and often consuming unhealthy foods. The socialization activity regarding balanced nutrition and healthy food selection at Sekolah Dasar Negeri Mandiro 2 aims to increase students' knowledge about the imp...

The growing body of research on children’s understanding of extraordinary minds has demonstrated that children believe in the persistence of mental functioning after death. However, beyond the continuity of mind, the supernatural conception of death often involves the concept of the disembodied mind, which transcends the constraints of the physical...

Wattle cysts or tassel cysts are superficial swellings in goats, which normally appear apparently harmless to the quality of life of the species. A case of congenital bilateral wattle cyst in a kid with its clinical differential diagnosis, therapeutic management and clinical significance has been put on record in this communication.

A report from a national weather campaign, to learn more about how rain is perceived and handled by children in Norway.

The study aims to clarify the relationship between the level of parental education and raising children, to know the role of the level of parental education in shaping the child's personality, and also know the role of the level of parental education in choosing the appropriate style of education for the child. In this study, the researcher used t...

Sleep education had inconsistent effects on children and adolescents, and there was a lack of evaluation based on the context of Chinese students. We aimed to explore the outcomes of sleep education on middle-school students in eastern China. We enrolled 239 middle-school students, divided into intervention group with sleep education (125) and cont...

The advancement of AI-generated content (AIGC) has made creating pedagogical agents (PAs) for multimedia learning increasingly realistic, simpler, and more efficient. However, little is known about the acceptance of AI-generated pedagogical agents (AIPAs) in picture book videos among young children aged 3–6. To address this, the present study exami...

A number of different language measures are used in child language acquisition studies. This raises the issue of comparability across tasks, and whether this comparability diverges depending on the specific language domain or the language population (e.g., monolinguals versus bilinguals). The current study investigates the comparability across task...

The transition from preschool to school is a significant milestone in a child’s life, and the experiences gained during this period have a long-term impact not only on learning outcomes but also on the relationship with school and teachers. Starting school is exciting and filled with anticipation for young children; at the same time, it is also a s...

I wrote the following piece in 1993 while I was in England. Two 11-year-old children had brutally killed a two-year-old toddler.

The term “Passive Will” emerged spontaneously while I was working with children labeled as “autistic”. You won't find it anywhere. Don’t bother looking in books or elsewhere about "autism."

The present study examined whether length of bilingual experience and language ability contributed to cross-situational word learning (XSWL) in Spanish-English bilingual school-aged children. We contrasted performance in a high variability condition, where children were exposed to multiple speakers and exemplars simultaneously, to performance in a...

Background: Celiac Disease (CD) is known as a gluten enteropathy, it is a disease that affects many organs, and findings outside the gastrointestinal tract are common. CD-associated liver disease is probably developed by variable factors, comprising intestinal bacterial overgrowth, chronic infection and inflammation, gut permeability, genetic, mole...

Artykuł porusza problem interferencji językowej w mowie wielojęzycznych dzieci z Ukrainy w wieku przedszkolnym, które mieszkają w Polsce i posługują się językiem ukraińskim, rosyjskim, polskim oraz w pewnym stopniu językiem angielskim. Badania pokazują wzajemne wpływy i transfer z innych języków do języka pierwszego (L1) lub języka ojczystego na ws...

Аннотация: В статье изложена специфика образования и развития Узбекского национального костюма, развития детского национального костюма, отличительные особенности. Дан анализ исторического и современного облика детского национального костюма. Abstract: The article describes the specifics of the formation and development of theUzbek national costum...

El síndrome de queratitis, ictiosis y sordera(KID) es una displasia ectodérmica congénita que afecta a la epidermis, el epitelio corneal y el oído interno, caracterizándose por lesiones dérmicas hiperqueratósicas, alopecia cicatricial, distrofia ungueal, anomalías dentarias, pérdida auditiva neurosensorial y neovascularización corneal progresiva en...