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Ritu Sampige; Daijiazi Tang; Leslie Frankel; Allison Master – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
It is critically important to understand the environmental contexts and demographic factors that put families at greater risk of COVID-related parenting stress. The current study examined a new scale measuring situational stress caused by concern about family safety and stability during the COVID-19 pandemic. We examined how this stress differed…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Parent Attitudes, Family Environment, COVID-19
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Benítez-Barrera, Carlos; Reiss, Lina; Majid, Marjan; Chau, Trisha; Wilson, Johanna; Rico, Erika Figueroa; Bunta, Ferenc; Raphael, Robert M.; de Diego-Lázaro, Beatriz – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: Best practices recommend promoting the use of the home language and allowing caregivers to choose the language(s) that they want to use with their child who is deaf or hard of hearing (DHH). We examined whether Spanish-speaking caregivers of children who are DHH receive professional recommendations on oral bilingualism that follow best…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Bilingualism, Oral Language
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Prochnow, Tyler; Umstattd Meyer, M. Renée; Johnson, Cassandra; Delgado, Haley; Gómez, Luis; Sharkey, Joseph – American Journal of Health Education, 2021
Background: Physical activity (PA) is linked to many health benefits. However, many children and adults do not meet PA recommendations. Specifically, Mexican-heritage (MH) families are less physically active and at greater risk for obesity and related co-morbidities than the general population. Culturally-tailored programs are needed to support MH…
Descriptors: Program Development, Physical Activities, Mexican Americans, Fathers
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de Heer, Hendrik Dirk; de la Haye, Kayla; Skapinsky, Kaley; Goergen, Andrea F.; Wilkinson, Anna V.; Koehly, Laura M. – Health Education & Behavior, 2017
Background: Due to shared health behaviors and disease risk, families may be more effective targets for health promotion. This study assessed whether providing family health history (FHH)-based risk information for heart disease and diabetes affected encouragement to engage in physical activity (PA) and healthy weight (HW) maintenance and…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Family Environment, Health Promotion, Heart Disorders
Wiley, David; Fagbemi, Mike; Filek, John; Kirscher, Cathy; Morrow, Susanne Morgan; Reiman, John; Rohr, Lisa; Taylor-Snell, Emily – National Center on Deaf-Blindness, 2014
A person who is considered deaf-blind is someone who is deaf or hard-of-hearing in combination with a visual impairment or blindness. The range of capabilities and support needs of individuals with deaf-blindness varies substantially from person to person because of differences in the extent of partial vision or hearing, if any, or the presence of…
Descriptors: Deaf Blind, Intervention, Children, Adults
Center for the Public Policy Priorities, Austin, TX. – 1995
The final report of the Texas Childhood Hunger Identification Project (Texas CHIP), this document describes the most comprehensive study of childhood hunger undertaken in Texas. Through enumeration and interviewing methods, low-income families from 27 counties in Texas were analyzed in the areas of income allocation, food frequency, homelessness,…
Descriptors: Child Health, Childhood Needs, Children, Disadvantaged Environment