OBJECTIVE To assess the relationship between beverage choices and the adequacy of nutrient intakes among children and adolescents. DESIGN Beverages reported in 24-hour recall records were classified as milk, 100% juice, fruit-flavored drinks, or carbonated sodas. Recommended intakes were based on Recommended Dietary Allowances or Dietary Reference Intakes. PARTICIPANTS Four thousand seventy...

Objectives: One of the most effective methods to describe speech disorders is the measurement of speech intelligibility. The speech intelligibility indicates the extent of acoustic signals that correctly speaker produces and hearer receives. The purpose of this study was to investigate the speech intelligibility in the Persian children with Down syndrome, age range was 3 to 5 years, who had spo...

OBJECTIVE This study was designed to determine the current age-related hepatitis A virus (HAV) seroprevalance, vaccination status of children and to evaluate the epidemiological shift in HAV serostatus living in Tekirdağ, which is located in Thrace region, the European part of Turkey. METHODS Children 6 months-12 years of age with simple health problems were included. Blood samples were studi...

The prevalence of HHV-6 infection was surveyed by determining the presence of anti-human herpesvirus-6 IgG (Anti-HHV-6 IgG) using an ELISA method. Two hundred and ten sera collected from healthy Thai children aged between 0 to 12 years (mean +/- standard deviation = 3.35+/-3.33) indicated the prevalence of HHV-6 infection was 88.10% (185/210). Samples were classified into 7 groups, 30 samples e...

background: the main goal of the current research is to evaluate the drawing quality of 4 to 12 years old on the basis of bender-gestalt test. bender-gestalt test is aimed to evaluate visual-motor abilities in children and educational assessments. methods:  the research is conducted in a descriptive framework. the sample included a total number of 707 normal children, aged 4-12 years old, who w...

BACKGROUND Cerebral malaria (CM) is associated with long-term neurocognitive impairment in children ≥5 years of age. No prospective studies to date have assessed neurocognitive impairment in children with CM <5 years of age, or in children with severe malarial anemia (SMA), a form of severe malaria estimated to affect as many as 5 million children annually. METHODS Children <5 years of age pr...

Introduction: Hearing loss from birth up to the age of 3 years has a negative effect on speech/language development and results in sensory, cognitive, emotional, and academic defects in adulthood by causing delayed development of communicative-linguistic abilities. The present study was performed in order to assess the effect of early intervention on language development in Persian children age...

We test whether there is an own-age advantage in emotion recognition using prototypical younger child, older child and adult faces displaying emotional expressions. Prototypes were created by averaging photographs of individuals from 6 different age and sex categories (male 5-8 years, male 9-12 years, female 5-8 years, female 9-12 years, adult male and adult female), each posing 6 basic emotion...