Early intervention with children at risk or facing developmental problems is a practice defined by three fundamental characteristics: being family-centered, being based on the community and on the child's life context, and being conducted by a team with transdisciplinary practice. In this paper we wish to present how the SNIPI-National System of Early Intervention, implemented in Portugal over ...

child with down's syndrome is an individual who is suitable and eligible to receive early intervention services. this study aimed to measure the family outcome among parents of down syndrome children, on the impact of receiving early intervention and identify the factors influencing it.a cross sectional was conducted from april 2009 until january 2010 with a total of 125 parents of children wit...

Citation: Nicholson T and Tse L (2015) What are the criteria for a good intervention study? Response: “Unrecognized ambiguities in validity of intervention research: an example on explicit phonics and text-centered teaching”. Front. Psychol. 6:508. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00508 What are the criteria for a good intervention study? Response: “Unrecognized ambiguities in validity of intervention r...

BACKGROUND Poor feeding practices during infancy contribute to obesity risk. As infants transition from human milk and/or formula-based diets to solid foods, these practices interfere with infant feeding self-regulation and healthy growth patterns. Compared with other socioeconomic groups, lower-income mothers are more likely to experience difficulty feeding their infants. This may include misi...

We examine the impact of two universal preventive interventions in first grade on the growth of aggressive/disruptive behavior in grades 1-3 and 6-12 through the application of a latent transition growth mixture model (LT-GMM). Both the classroom-centered and family-centered interventions were designed to reduce the risk for later conduct problems by enhancing the child behavior management prac...

Introduction: Newborn hearing screening leads to the early detection of hearing impairment. The aim of screening is to decrease or remove the effect of hearing impairment on development of speech and language by timely diagnosis and effective treatment. A number of risk factors lead to delayed start of decreased hearing ability including: 1. Congenital infection with cytomegalovirus  (CMV) viru...

BACKGROUND ParentCorps is a family-centered enhancement to pre-kindergarten programming in elementary schools and early education centers. When implemented in high-poverty, urban elementary schools serving primarily Black and Latino children, it has been found to yield benefits in childhood across domains of academic achievement, behavior problems, and obesity. However, its long-term cost-effec...

Prior investigations have linked behavioral competencies in primary school to a reduced risk of later drug involvement. In this randomized prevention trial, we sought to quantify the potential early impact of two developmentally inspired universal preventive interventions on the risk of early-onset alcohol, inhalant, tobacco, and illegal drug use through early adolescence. Participants were rec...

conclusions according to the results of this study, the stress level induced due to needle-stick exposure and its complications is high and interventions for reduction are essential. results the mean and standard deviation of stress experienced by nurses before and after the intervention were 64.94 ± 15.67 and 43.91 ± 10.73, respectively. findings indicated that education decrease needle stick ...