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Direct linkMarkel Rico-González; Ricardo Martín-Moya; María Mendoza-Muñoz; Jorge Carlos-Vivas – Health Education Journal, 2024
Objective: Physical activity (PA) is essential to promote both optimal physical and emotional health in preschool children. Hence, well-founded PA guidelines are essential. 24-hour Movement Guidelines (which include PA, recreational screen time and sleep) have been established. Thus, this study aimed to explore preschool-aged children's adherence…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Physical Activity Level, Guidelines, Preschool Children
Nolte, Heike; Solomons, Regan; Springer, Priscilla; Kidd, Martin; Africa, Eileen – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) often present motor co-ordination difficulties accompanying their speech and sound delays. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of a paired versus a small group gross motor intervention on selected pre-school children, pre-identified with CAS. Children pre-identified with…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Intervention, Preschool Children, Speech Impairments
Download full textAnderson, Kate J.; Henning, Tiffany J.; Moonsamy, Jasmin R.; Scott, Megan; du Plooy, Christopher; Dawes, Andrew R. L. – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2021
Background: The Early Learning Outcomes Measure (ELOM) assesses early learning programme outcomes in children aged 50-69 months. ELOM assesses gross motor development (GMD), fine motor coordination and visual motor integration (FMC & VMI), emergent numeracy and mathematics (ENM), cognition and executive functioning (CEF), and emergent literacy…
Descriptors: Test Reliability, Test Validity, Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education
Thuketana, Nkhensani S.; Westhof, Liesel – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2018
Background: The Foundation Phase in education provides the primary building blocks for children's foundation and development. From personal experiences as educators, we observed that young learners who work together in small groups during art activities gain selfconfidence faster than indecisive learners who work alone. Indecisive learners become…
Descriptors: Group Activities, Young Children, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children
Muller, Carlien; Kritzinger, Aletta; Pottas, Lidia; Bodenstein, Lovina – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2016
There is a need to dynamically monitor progress of functional auditory performance in young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The Functional Auditory Performance Indicators (FAPI) is a monitoring tool for children with hearing loss but has not yet been described in children with ASD. The aim was to describe the overall performance of…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Young Children, Auditory Perception
Hsiao, Celia; Richter, Linda M. – Infants and Young Children, 2014
This article examines the influence of early development on preschool cognitive and behavioral outcomes in South Africa, as well as the role of family factors such as maternal education in moderating this association. The study involved 167 Black South African children (89 boys and 78 girls) from the Birth to Twenty study during their first 5…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Child Development, Cognitive Development
Henning, Elizabeth – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2013
In a search for ways to capture foundation phase children's competence in mathematics, a small research team was put together at a South African university four years ago. At first, working only in a single school where the objective was to model 80 learners' growth in competence over four years, the team transformed into a very different entity.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Young Children, Mathematics Skills
Ebrahim, Hasina Banu; Killian, Bev; Rule, Peter – Early Child Development and Care, 2011
This article explores the practices undertaken by early childhood development practitioners (ECDPs) to support poor and vulnerable children from birth to four years outside centre-based provision. The article draws on part of a UNICEF (United Nations International Children's Fund) commissioned evaluation on family and community-based ECD (Early…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Economically Disadvantaged, Young Children, Interviews
