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 Partnerships: Research...
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 current issue of 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 published in the...
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 were assaulted at least once in the past year...
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. The infants looked longer at pictures of human...
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 with increased aggression in small...
Trent Consultants News Virtual reality games could help children to escape victimisation and bullying at school, according to researchers at the University of Warwick. Trent Consultants News Children who took part in a three-week anti-bullying virtual learning intervention in schools in the UK and Germany showed a 26% decrease in victimisation. In the study, published in The Journal of Child...
Trent Consultants News New Brain Findings On Dyslexic Children: Good Readers Learn From Repeating Auditory Signals, Poor Readers Do Not Trent Consultants News The vast majority of school-aged children can focus on the voice of a teacher amid the cacophony of the typical classroom thanks to a brain that automatically focuses on relevant, predictable and repeating auditory information, according to...
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 likely the kids, especially...
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 — and many parents — have long believed that...