Anticipatory guidance for behaviour concerns: School age children

Providing anticipatory guidance to children and adolescents.

Anticipatory guidance, a component of Bright Futures, refers to communicating with patients and caregivers to identify and provide information most needed. Providing reliable, appropriate, and culturally competent anticipatory guidance to children, adolescents, and their families at every visit is one of the most essential roles of a primary care provider. D etermining the right information for...

Language ability, executive functioning and behaviour in school-age children

BACKGROUND Many children with language impairment present with deficits in other areas, including executive functioning (EF), attention and behaviour. Similarly, many children receiving services for attention or behaviour problems have deficits in language ability. AIMS To evaluate the relations among EF, language ability and behaviour problems in a sample of school-age children with a wide r...

Anticipatory Guidance of Plot

An anticipatory system for guiding plot development in interactive narratives is described. The executable model is a finite automaton that provides the implemented system with a lookahead. The identification of undesirable future states in the model is used to guide the player, in a transparent manner. In this way, too radical twists of the plot that lead to behaviors of the autonomous fellow ...

Anticipatory Guidance in Pediatric Dentistry

Families with school-age children.

Most working parents face a common dilemma--how to care for their children when they are not in school but the parents are at work. In this article Kathleen Christensen, Barbara Schneider, and Donnell Butler describe the predictable and unpredictable scheduling demands school-age children place on working couples and single working parents. The authors assess the potential capacity of schools t...