Beginning school is an important milestone for children. Children's readiness for school involves cognitive, physical, and emotional development. Certain school programs allow children to start first grade after 66 months of age, together with 72 month-old children. In order to estimate school readiness, we screened children before starting first grade and compared their school performance acco...

The incidence of Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and Impaired Glucose Tolerance (IGT) is increasing among children all over the world. In India, T2DM develops at a younger age, at least a decade earlier, than in Western population(1). There is paucity of data on prevalence of IGT and T2DM amongst children suffering from obesity in NCT of Delhi. This data is a part of larger study data set of st...

PURPOSE To assess the awareness, facilitators, and barriers to policy implementation related to obesity prevention for primary school children. DESIGN A cross-sectional study administered using an online questionnaire. SETTING Conducted in 447 primary schools in a state in Malaysia. PARTICIPANTS One school administrator from each school served as a participant. MEASURES The questionnair...

OBJECTIVE Many children with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection are surviving long enough to reach school age. This study describes issues related to school attendance and disclosure of HIV infection in a population of HIV-infected children. METHODS A statewide pediatric HIV surveillance system was used to collect data on school-age (>/=5 years old) HIV-infected children. In additio...

INTRODUCTION Results from studies examining associations of maternal diabetes in pregnancy with offspring cognitive outcomes have been inconclusive. METHODS We used data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, a UK prospective pregnancy cohort. Outcomes were School Entry Assessment (SEA) scores (age 4, N = 6, 032) and WISC-III IQ (age 8, N = 5, 282-5,307) and General Certifi...

OBJECTIVES Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project is a 3-year community-based, primary prevention program for non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in a Mohawk community near Montreal, Canada. Objectives are to improve healthy eating and encourage more physical activity among elementary school children. METHODS Intervention incorporates behavior change theory, Native learning styles,...

UNLABELLED We evaluated a program for increasing pretend toy play of 2-year-old children with disabilities in an inclusive classroom. Classroom personnel implemented the program, which involved choices of classroom centers containing toys that tend to occasion pretend play in toddlers without disabilities, along with prompting and praise. Increases occurred in independent pretend-play rates amo...

The ability to identify letters and encode their position is a crucial step of the word recognition process. However and despite their word identification problem, the ability of dyslexic children to encode letter identity and letter-position within strings was not systematically investigated. This study aimed at filling this gap and further explored how letter identity and letter-position enco...