conclusions managers and service providers need to know an ordinary woman’s perception of risk to address the gap between current and desired childbirth services and encourage women to use current hospital services. objectives this study explains how baloch women make decisions regarding the risks associated with childbirth at home versus a hospital. this study identifies and defines the factor...

Standardized psychological assessments are extensively used by practitioners to determine rate and level of development in different domains of ability in both typical and atypical children. The younger the children, the more likely the trials will resemble play activities. However, mode of administration, timing and use of objects involved are constrained. The purpose of this study is to explo...

The authors stress that total assessment prior to intervention is crucial, including standardized testing, observations of behavior, developmental history, and play interview. Techniques presented provide a holistic approach for evaluating the referred preschool child.

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Child welfare Domestic violence Child exposure to violence Child welfare professionals are expected to promptly assess the current safety and future risks of children reported to them. Developing more accurate assessment methods has been a growing concern in child welfare. The presence of domestic violence and children's exposure to it are factors that have been ...

Play is a universal behavior of children that has been documented since ancient times (Janssen & Janssen, 1996; Lowenfeld, 1939). It is estimated that by 6 years of age, children are likely to have engaged in more have been well established. Play has the power not only to aid in normal child development but also to help alleviate emotional and behav-ioral difficulties. For over six decades, pla...

In this paper, the proposed work tests computer vision application to perform skill and emotion assessment of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) by extracting various bio-behaviors, human activities, child-therapist interactions, joint pose estimations from video-recorded interactive single-or two-person play-based intervention sessions. A comprehensive data set 300 videos are amassed...

The quality of children’s relationships with teachers in early elementary grades has implications for their academic and behavioral outcomes in later grades (e.g., Hamre & Pianta, 2001). The current study uses data from the NICHD SECCYD to extend work from a recent study of first grade (Rudasill & Rimm-Kaufman, 2009) by examining connections between child shyness, effortful control, and gender ...