Engaging Elementary-Age Children with Opera

Haptic exploration in elementary school age children.

Haptic exploration, or active touch, is a perceptual modality that has demonstrated therapeutic potential for elementary age children but is not commonly studied with this age group. The aim of this exploratory study was to discover the characteristics of haptic scanning that are associated with efficiency and accuracy in a shape matching task. The study tasks were designed to resemble common v...

Aerobic capacity and cognitive control in elementary school-age children.

PURPOSE The current study examined the relationship between children's performance on the Progressive Aerobic Cardiovascular Endurance Run subtest of the FitnessGram® and aspects of cognitive control that are believed to support academic success. METHODS Hierarchical linear regression analyses were conducted on a sample of second- and third-grade children (n = 397) who completed modified vers...

Designing Engaging Experiences with Children and Artists

pervasive mobile computing, consumer experience, participatory design The belief motivating the 4D Experience research programme is that the experience evoked by a computer system can be (at least) as important as the ostensible functionality of the system. In this report, we describe three case studies that explore the experiential approach to system development: Zap Scan, A Walk in the Wired ...

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A Review of Stuttering Intervention Approaches for Preschool-Age and Elementary School-Age Children

ABSTRACT: Purpose: This article describes different intervention approaches for preschool and school-age children who stutter, including the name of the approach and its components and limitations. Method: A review of the literature was conducted to summarize and synthesize previously published research in the area of stuttering treatment. The goal of this literature review was to increase the ...