Trent Consultants News Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: Program Uses Art to Engage at-Risk Kids and Identify Needs Trent Consultants News: Identifying the public health and safety needs of children from low-income communities may be best accomplished through art, report University of Pittsburgh researchers in the current online issue of Progress in Community Health [...]
Trent Consultants News Korea: Computer games have a broad appeal that transcends gender, culture, age and socio-economic status. Now, computer scientists in the US think that creating computer games, rather than just playing them could boost students’ critical and creative thinking skills as well as broaden their participation in computing. They discuss details in the [...]
Trent Consultants News Treatment that includes medication plus a structured training program for parents reduces serious behavioral problems in children with autism and related conditions, according to a study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). The study, which was part of the NIMH Research Units on Pediatric Psychopharmacology (RUPP) Autism Network, was [...]
Trent Consultants News More than 60 percent of youngsters had either direct or indirect exposure to violence within the past year, according to a U.S. government survey that looked at past-year and lifetime exposure to violence among children aged 17 and younger. Trent Consultants News: The survey also found that: Nearly half the children surveyed [...]
Trent Consultants News Children as young as 5 months old are able to tell the difference between human speech and monkey calls, a new study has found. Trent Consultants News Researchers showed 5-month-old infants from English- and French-speaking homes pictures of human faces and rhesus monkey faces paired with either human speech or monkey calls. [...]
Trent Consultants News Yet another study has found that television viewing is linked to aggression in young children. Trent Consultants News This research, published in the November issue of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, found that direct TV watching by young children or exposure to indirect viewing in the household were both associated [...]
Trent Consultants News “Finish your broccoli!” Although parents may have good intentions about forcing their kids to eat cold, mushy vegetables, this approach may backfire the very next day, according to new research from Cornell University. “We found that the more controlling the parents were about telling their child to clean their plate, the more [...]
Trent Consultants News For parents who have found themselves repeating the same warnings or directions to their toddler over and over to no avail, new research from the University of Colorado at Boulder offers them an answer as to why their toddlers don’t listen to their advice: they’re just storing it away for later. Scientists [...]
Trent Consultants News University of Manitoba researchers have found that anxiety disorders appear to be independently associated with several physical conditions, including thyroid disease, respiratory disease, arthritis and migraine headaches. Their findings, published today in the October 23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, suggest that this co-occurrence of disorders may significantly increase the risk [...]
Trent Consultants News: SEOUL – Disgraced South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-Suk has won a copyright battle over dog-cloning techniques his colleagues said Saturday. A Seoul district court on Friday ruled that his cloning technology is different from procedures patented by the Seoul National University. RNL Bio, which bought the patent from the university, filed a [...]