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Reyes Peralta, Alejandro; Ali Hurtado Choque, Ghaffar; Reicks, Marla; Alvarez de Davila, Silvia; Soltani, Darya – Journal of Extension, 2023
A family-skills program for Latino fathers and youth was implemented to prevent youth obesity. Lessons learned focused on practices to address barriers to engagement and retention among fathers and youth within the Latino community. Program development issues included selection of organizations, facilitators, language, and delivery methods.…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Family Involvement, Health Promotion, Fathers
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Bosmans, Daniel; Casciotta, Françoise; Fivaz, Vincent – Athens Journal of Education, 2023
This study aims to obtain a better understanding of how the teacher can support the acquisition of transversal competencies, such as collaboration, creativity and reflection when children aged between 11 and 12 take part in an activity designed to promote autonomous or self-regulatory learning. There is a need to equip the teachers to enable them…
Descriptors: Competence, Skill Development, Preadolescents, Personal Autonomy
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Penelope DeFreitas; Alicia Layne – International Journal of Computer Science Education in Schools, 2023
The Guyanese Girls Code (GGC) training program, established in 2018, is aimed at increasing female participation in ICT. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the program shifted to virtual operations to ensure the safety of participants and instructors. This presented an opportunity to contribute to the growing body of research that has been…
Descriptors: Females, Information Technology, Preadolescents, Early Adolescents
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Senel Çitak; Selda Kanbur; Mustafa Alperen Kursuncu – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2023
A healthy family climate, including parents' attitudes towards their children and the quality of sibling relationships, is essential for child resilience. One of the domains where parental attitudes are determinative is the children's academic life. In an unhealthy family climate, for instance, parental pressure for academic success may cause…
Descriptors: Sibling Relationship, Family Environment, Resilience (Psychology), Parenting Styles
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Padmanabhan, Pujitha Sriram; Shroff, Hemal – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2022
This study was conducted to explore the experiences of educators with mealtime behaviours of children with a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) in schools, and to explore the strategies undertaken in schools to improve nutrition among these children. In-depth interviews were conducted with 13 educators of various special schools across…
Descriptors: Children, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Students with Disabilities
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Riemersma, Ivon; Van Santvoort, F.; Van Doesum, K. T. M.; Hosman, C. M. H.; Janssens, J. M. A. M.; Van der Zanden, R. A. P.; Otten, R. – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2022
Background: Children with mild intellectual disabilities and emotional and behavioural problems whose parents have mental health concerns are at an increased risk of developing problems themselves. This study analysed the effectiveness of the 'You are Okay'-program aimed to support these children and parents and to reduce the risk of problem…
Descriptors: Mild Intellectual Disability, Emotional Problems, Behavior Problems, Parents
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Rabinowitch, Tal-Chen; Klein, Pnina; Atira, Gila; Ben-Eliezer, Ruhama – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Infants and toddlers spend a substantial amount of their time in out-of-home care, and are thus being tended to not only by their mothers but also by their caregivers. It is therefore of considerable importance to study the effects of caregiver-infant compared to mother-infant interactions. To address this issue, first, various variables of…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Interaction
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Faja, Susan; Clarkson, Tessa; Gilbert, Rachel; Vaidyanathan, Akshita; Greco, Gabriella; Rueda, M. Rosario; Combita, Lina M.; Driscoll, Kate – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2022
This randomized, controlled study examined the initial efficacy of an executive function training program for children with autism spectrum disorder. Seventy 7- to 11 year-olds with autism spectrum disorder and intelligence quotients [greater than or equal to]80 were randomly assigned to receive a web-based set of executive function training games…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Executive Function, Training
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Robertson, Olivia C.; Marceau, Kristine; Duncan, Robert J.; Shirtcliff, Elizabeth A.; Leve, Leslie D.; Shaw, Daniel S.; Natsuaki, Misaki; Neiderhiser, Jenae M.; Ganiban, Jody M. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
The thrifty phenotype and fetal overnutrition hypotheses are two developmental hypotheses that originated from the "developmental origins of health and disease" (DOHaD) perspective. The DOHaD posits that exposures experienced prenatally and early in life may influence health outcomes through altering form and function of internal organs…
Descriptors: Obesity, At Risk Persons, Child Development, Puberty
Shannon G. Kuschel – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The growth of reading and cognitive skills is crucial for children's development. This study examined the utility of incorporating a cognitive framework for reading in intervention design among struggling readers receiving National Institute for Learning Development (NILD) Educational Therapy® over a 3- to 5-year period. Evidence from this…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties, Thinking Skills
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Herranz Hernández, Pablo; Garrido, María de Riánsares Sánchez-Beato – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2021
Introduction: The logical operator of disjunction has two possibilities, inclusive and exclusive, although the latter is more deeply rooted in our thinking. The present study seeks to analyze whether teaching both types of logical disjunction encourages more inclusive attitudes toward hypothetical social situations that appear as disjunctions.…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Preadolescents, Early Adolescents, Values Education
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Taat, Muhamad Suhaimi; Talip, Roslee; Mosin, Musirin – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2021
This study aimed to examine the influence of curriculum and school climate on the academic attitude of "tahfiz" (memorizing Al-Quran) students in Sabah, Malaysia. A total of 81 students (age 10-12) from three private "tahfiz" primary schools around Kota Kinabalu were involved in this study. This quantitative study used…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Elementary School Students, Preadolescents, Institutional Characteristics
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Rosenbach, Charlotte; Renneberg, Babette; Scheithauer, Herbert – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2021
Rejection Sensitivity (RS) is defined as the disposition to anxiously expect, readily perceive, and overreact to social rejection cues. Aim of the two studies presented in this paper was to develop and administer an instrument to assess RS in a German sample of healthy (pre)adolescents as well as in a clinical sample. The English Children's…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Questionnaires, Rejection (Psychology), Bullying
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Zhi, Wang; Cheong, Loh Sau; Jing, Tian – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2021
Emotion recognition has been identified as critical in the development of social communication and interaction with individuals having autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, little is known about the effects of the intervention and moderator factors with quantitative research. To carry out an analysis of effect size on the intervention emotion…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Emotional Response, Interpersonal Communication
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Broomell, Alleyne P. R.; Savla, Jyoti; Calkins, Susan D.; Bell, Martha Ann – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Social cognition is a set of complex processes that mediate much of human behavior. The development of these skills is related to and interdependent on other cognitive processes, particularly inhibitory control. Brain regions associated with inhibitory control and social cognition overlap functionally and structurally, especially with respect to…
Descriptors: Infants, Social Cognition, Diagnostic Tests, Inhibition
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