introduction: children of the ages 5-6 are in a distinct educational condition. on the one side, they are biologically inclined toward movement and on the other side their parent’s preference toward straight and categorical education like second language starts. this study investigates the effect of neshaat language and movement integrative program on children’s gross motor development and thei...

introduction: children of the ages 5-6 are in a distinct educational condition. on the one side, they are biologically inclined toward movement and on the other side their parent’s preference toward straight and categorical education like second language starts. this study investigates the effect of neshaat language and movement integrative program on children’s gross motor development and thei...

CHILD CARE PRACTICES ANTECEDING THREE PATTERNS OF PRESCHOOL BEHAVIOR. STUDIED SYSTEMATICALLY CHILD-REARING PRACTICES ASSOCIATED WITH COMPETENCE IN THE PRESCHOOL CHILD. 2015 American Psychological Association PDF documents require Adobe Acrobat Reader.Effects of Authoritative Parental Control on Child Behavior, Child. Child care practices anteceding three patterns of preschool behavior. Genetic....

In this paper, we ask whether children are sensitive to the needs of their interlocutor, and, if so, whether they - like adults - modify acoustic characteristics of their speech as part of a communicative goal. In a production task, preschoolers participated in a word learning task that favored the use of clear speech. Children produced vowels that were longer, more intense, more dispersed in t...

background sleep habits and total sleep duration are essential factors for healthy growth and development of children. there is evidence showing that eating time and quantity as well as proportion of foods macronutrients affect the sleep quality. objectives the aim of this study was to investigate the sleep habits of preschool children in qazvin and the role of calorie, macronutrients and caffe...

OBJECTIVE To explore the verbal communication of child care providers regarding preschool children's internal and non-internal hunger and satiation cues. METHODS Video observation transcripts of Head Start staff (n=29) at licensed child care centers in Colorado, Idaho, and Nevada were analyzed for common themes. RESULTS Adults' verbal communication with children at mealtimes emphasized non-...

Three experiments explored preschoolers' and adults' understanding of the distinctive semantic functions of adjectives (i.e., to name properties) and count nouns (i.e., to name object kinds). In Experiment 1, we modeled a familiar adjective (e.g., "blue") syntactically as either an adjective (e.g., "This is a blue one") or a count noun (e.g., "This is a blue") and applied it to a target object ...

Individuals in many cultures believe in omniscient (all-knowing) beings, but everyday representations of omniscience have rarely been studied. To understand the nature of such representations requires knowing how they develop. Two studies examined the breadth of knowledge (i.e., types of knowledge) and depth of knowledge (i.e., amount of knowledge within domains) that preschoolers, elementary-s...