the therapeutic value of kids’ artistic activities has always attracted experts and medics’ attention. it has a lot of usages in obtaining peace of mind and health in children. art therapy is a new and organized way in solving social and mental problems and disorders that can lead to improvement, especially in children. school anxiety can be seen and reduced, in artistic activities, as a sign o...

Unintentional (accidental) injuries in childhood constitute a significant public health problem. Young children are extremely vulnerable to unintentional injuries that are vastly preventable. All cases of fatal unintentional injuries in children aged 10 years and below autopsied during 1994-2007 were retrospectively reviewed. Seventy five such cases were identified during the 14 year study peri...

Children with autism achieve mirror self-recognition appropriate to developmental age, but are nonetheless reported to have problems in other aspects of a sense of self. We observed behaviour in the mirror in 12 pre-school children with autism, 13 pre-school children with Down syndrome (DS) and 13 typically developing (TD) toddlers. Reliable differences in reflecting actions, social relatedness...

This document presents key findings from a project that explored the relationship between children’s experience of pre-school provision and change in their social and cognitive development between ages 3 and 5. The project examined differences in the characteristics of pre-school provision experienced by different children and whether, in particular, the quality of the provision – as assessed t...

OBJECTIVES Obesity has become a global epidemic but our understanding of the problem in children is limited due to lack of comparable representative data from different countries, and varying criteria for defining obesity. This paper summarises the available information on recent trends in child overweight and obesity prevalence. METHODS PubMed was searched for data relating to trends over ti...

The Effective Pre-School and Primary Education 3-11 (EPPE 3-11, 2003 – 2008) project willcontinue to build on the extensive data collected in the original EPPE study, following thechildren up to the age of 11 at the end of Key Stage 2. EPPE 3-11 is interested in the continuingeffects of pre-school education, the characteristics of effective primary schooling, the learningtra...

The development of auditory-visual speech perception was investigated in pre-school children, school children and adults. Results show a link between auditory-visual speech perception and language-specific speech perception in school children. In addition it was found that speechreading ability in early childhood was predicted by cognitive abilities. Additionally, adults’ and preschool children...

PRE-PRIMARY EDUCATION IN INDIA Various types of pre primary schools are available in India and more children are now attending pre-school (NIPCCD, 2006) indicating an increase in demand for education at this stage. This overall increase raises questions such as whether this demand has increased everywhere. Are all children attending pre-schools if they are available? Which types of preschools d...

Haemophilus influenzae serotype b (Hib) can cause severe life threatening disease in healthy individuals, with over 80% of cases in the pre-vaccine era occurring in children under five years of age. The introduction of Hib conjugate vaccine into routine childhood immunisation programmes has resulted in a dramatic reduction in the incidence of invasive Hib disease across all age groups. The obje...