BACKGROUND Anaphylaxis is a severe, life-threatening situation. However, little is known about real-life anaphylactic management in children, especially in kindergarten and school settings, where a large number of anaphylaxes take place. METHODS Parents, school teachers and child-care providers of 86 primary schools and kindergartens in the city of Dresden, Germany, received questionnaires to...

This paper presents a case study and some results of longitudinal conducted from 2013 to 2018 in preschools Hungary Switzerland. has been prepared as part the author’s PhD research at University Geneva (Toth, 2018). The objective this was reveal relational emotional experience entering kindergarten/ school for non-native speaking children, i.e., children who do not speak understand language spo...

PURPOSE Given the high levels of obesity among U.S. children, we examine whether obesity in childhood is a passing phenomenon or remains entrenched into adolescence. METHODS Data are from the prospective nationally representative Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999 (analytic sample = 6600). Anthropometrics were measured six times during 1998-2007. Overweight an...

Despite the comorbidity between motor difficulties and certain disabilities, limited research has examined links between early motor, cognitive, and social skills in preschool-aged children with developmental disabilities. The present study examined the relative contributions of gross motor and fine motor skills to the prediction of improvements in children's cognitive and social skills among 2...

BACKGROUND Two parallel gastroenteritis outbreaks occurred in an elementary school and a neighboring kindergarten in Kilkis, Northern Greece in 2012. The aim of the study was the investigation of these two parallel outbreaks as well as their possible source. METHODS Two retrospective cohort studies were performed to identify the mode and the vehicle of transmission as well as the possible con...

Title: Electronic whiteboard in kindergarten: opportunities and requirements Author: S. Ovaska, P. Hietala and M. Kangassalo Year: 2003 Proceedings: Conference on Interaction Design and Children Abstract: Whiteboards have proven valuable for informal note-taking and sketching. Different electronic and also interactive whiteboards are becoming available for children and their teachers at all sch...

The methods of Lancefield and of Griffith for grouping and typing hemolytic streptococci have greatly facilitated studies on the relationship of the hemolytic streptococcus to human disease. Strains from human disease fall into Lancefield's Group A by the precipitin test.5 Exceptions occur, but they are rare.' Group A consists of about 30 types which can be identified by another precipitin test...