OBJECTIVE To verify if sleep disorders and different starting time to school have impaired motor skills in 5-year-old children. METHOD Cross-sectional design consisting of 132 children with sleep disorders and 136 normal controls of the public school in the city of São Paulo. The group with sleep disorders was identified based on a questionnaire, and motor tests for global motor coordination,...

Conventional explanations - lax gun control laws, media violence, single and working parents - do not adequately explain the recent spate of school shootings, and neither does bullying by itself, an explanation recently gaining more traction. A certain type of bullying, however, is revealed as particularly culpable. Many of the recent shootings share a disturbing component: The perpetrators wer...

In the absence of intellectual impairment, girls are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder significantly less and later than boys. This study explored potential reasons for why autism spectrum disorder may be more difficult to identify in girls, based on carer concerns during the pre-diagnosis period. Carers of 92 boys and 60 girls diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder from school age compl...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition is a major public health concern affecting a significant number of school age children influencing their health, growth and development, and school academic performance. OBJECTIVE To establish the determinants of under nutrition among school age children between 6-12 years in a low-income urban community. DESIGN A cross-sectional descriptive study. SETTING Kawangwa...

PURPOSE Previous research has suggested that language comprehension might be particularly impaired in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but this profile has been only broadly characterized. In the current study, the authors examined sentence comprehension in school-age boys with ASD, including a subgroup with intellectual disability (ID), with particular attention paid to errors tha...

This study evaluates the effects of the Coping Power Program with at-risk preadolescent boys at the time of transition from elementary school to middle school. Aggressive boys were randomly assigned to receive only the Coping Power child component, the full Coping Power Program with parent and child components, or a control condition. Results indicated that the Coping Power intervention produce...

BACKGROUND Despite robust evidence on the inverse relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and mortality, deviations from expected results have been observed likely due to school achievement and psychosocial resources, termed as "reserve capacity." Since adolescence is a critical period in developing sound psychological and behavioural patterns and adolescent markers of SES were seldom u...

Gender matters in the classroom, but not in the way people may assume; girls are outperforming boys. Identity-Based Motivation (IBM) theory explains why: People prefer to act in ways that feel in-line with important social identities such as gender. If a behavior feels identity-congruent, difficulty is interpreted as meaning that the behavior is important, not impossible, but what feels identit...

IN THEIR EDUCATION FORUM “EVALUATING MONTESSORI EDUCATION” (29 SEPT. 2006, P. 1893), A. Lillard and N. Else-Quest present Montessori education as being superior to other types of schools and having “remarkable outcomes.” Unfortunately, the analyses backing these value judgments are plagued by methodological and statistical problems and thus do not provide support for such claims. To evaluate Mo...