OBJECTIVE To prospectively examine the effects of a randomized school-based intervention on nutrition and physical activity knowledge and preferences, anthropometric measures, and fitness in low socioeconomic kindergarten children. STUDY DESIGN A total of 376 children completed a school-year combined dietary-behavioral-physical activity intervention and were compared with 349 control subjects...

The goal of this longitudinal study was to investigate the precursors of early reading development in 52 children with cerebral palsy at kindergarten level in comparison to 65 children without disabilities. Word Decoding was measured to investigate early reading skills, while Phonological Awareness, Phonological Short-term Memory (STM), Speech Perception, Speech Production and Nonverbal Reasoni...

Several studies report that adults and adolescents with reading disabilities also experience difficulties with selective attention. In the present study, event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were used to examine the neural mechanisms of selective attention in kindergarten children at risk for reading disabilities (AR group, n = 8) or on track in early literacy skills (OT group, n = 6) across t...

A longitudinal study with a nested preventive intervention was used to test five hypotheses generated from developmental theories of antisocial behavior. The longitudinal study followed 909 boys from their kindergarten year up to 17 years of age. The randomized multimodal preventive intervention targeted a subsample of boys who were rated disruptive by their kindergarten teacher. Semiparametric...

This study had two major objectives: (1) to analyse the development of two morphological structures in Hebrew, one inflectional and the other derivational and (2) to examine the mutual contribution of morphological knowledge and learning the written code. In a longitudinal design, 40 children were tested twice, first in kindergarten (mean age: 5; 11) and again in first grade (mean age: 6;5), on...

A small number of studies show that music training is associated with improvements in reading or in its component skills. A central question underlying this present research is whether musical activity can enhance the acquisition of reading skill, potentially before formal reading instruction begins. We explored two dimensions of this question: an investigation of links between kindergartners’ ...

Early Identification of Children with High Risk of Reading Failure Seymour Feshbach Howard Adelman University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Riverside Two alternative models for identifying kindergarten age children with a high risk of becoming reading failures are compared. One model places primary emphasis on psychometric test procedures assessing linguistic and perceptu...

are being offered by Signora Montessori' in her Italian schools. Many educators and parents have expressed opinions showing that their ideas of the kindergarten are based upon a belief that it holds to a certain theory and practice which in many ways and in many places havef been outgrown. Where kindergartners have accepted Froebel's attitude towards education rather than confined themselves to...

Abstract Science competencies are considered an important 21st century skill. How this skill develops in childhood is, however, not well understood, and particular little is known about how different aspects of science related. In prospective study with 58 children aged 5–6 years, we investigate the development two competence: scientific thinking content knowledge. Scientific was assessed a com...