BACKGROUND Current early childhood systems of care are not geared to respond to the complex needs of preschoolers at risk for mental health problems in a timely, coordinated, multidisciplinary, and comprehensive fashion. Evidence-informed policy represents an opportunity for implementing prevention, promotion, and early intervention at the population or at-risk level. Exposure to risk factors a...

The aim of the research is to investigate relationship between preschool teachers attitudes towards science education and their cognitive flexibility levels. In this context, personal information 207 pre-school was collected with Personal Information Form prepared by researcher. Attitude Scale Preschool Teachers Towards Science Education (Cronbach alpha coefficient: 82) Flexibility coefficient ...

BACKGROUND Previous studies suggest that preschoolers from low socioeconomic backgrounds engage in more screen time. Still, the factors in the social and physical home environment driving these differences in preschool children's screen time are poorly understood. This study examines potential home environment mediators in the associations between parental educational level and preschoolers' sc...

PURPOSE To determine the rate of preschool vision screening in family practice. To evaluate attitudes and beliefs about the importance of, and barriers to, preschool vision screening. METHOD Mail survey of a national sample of family physicians. RESULTS The response rate was 35% (237 of 671 eligible respondents). Most (90%) considered preschool vision screening important. The majority (91%)...

We investigated the extent to which cognitive and noncognitive skills accounted for the measured links between participation in preschool intervention and high school completion, highest grade completed, and incarceration history in early adulthood. Using data from the Chicago Longitudinal Study, an on-going 20-year investigation of the effects of the school-based Child-Parent Center early inte...

This article discusses two investigations which explored the bilingual language development outcomes of comparable groups of low-income, Spanish-speaking, Mexican American children who either did or did not attended a bilingual (Spanish/English) preschool. Study 1 is a replication of a study by Rodríguez, Díaz, Duran, and Espinosa, involving a new sample of 26 children who attended bilingual pr...

Objectives: Sleep is a physiological process essential to life. The aim of this study is to investigate the association between demographic factors, sleep habits, and behavior in Taiwanese preschool children. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study conducted between February 2012 to April 2012. Children aged 3 to 6 years (mean age=4.59 years; 50.83% girls) were recruited from certified public ...