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Exploring children's difficulties with language and literacy
Education & Development

Exploring children's difficulties with language and literacy

...research into developmental disorders in children. Reading intervention Educational consultant Glynnis Smith describes a reading intervention programme being used in primary schools to help children who are making slow progress with literacy. Tackling dyslexia Education expert Sir Jim Rose reflects on some of the issues emerging from his report 'Identifying and Teaching...
The impact of technology on children's physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

The impact of technology on children's physical activity

...research shows that by the age of 10 years, children have access to five different screens at home (Richardson, 2012). But in what ways does this impact a child’s physical activity levels? Is screen time always sedentary and does it always discourage physical activity? [Described image] Figure 3 Two young girls playing on a tablet Some academic studies have linked the...
Are schools the best place for children to learn?
Education & Development

Are schools the best place for children to learn?

...children have found themselves having to study at home, but is this a bad thing? Professor Jonathan Rix explores...We largely just go along with what the school decides our children should learn and with how this learning should happen. However, schools often have a narrow view of learning and how it can be achieved. Under everyday pressures, and drawing on a history of...
Listening to young children: supporting transition
Education & Development

Listening to young children: supporting transition

...Children and Family Centre (Medhurst, 2014). She interviewed the boys’ mother, family worker and new nursery worker, and found that pre-transition visits to the nursery with the boys and their family worker, had been valuable opportunities to listen to their needs and interests, to build continuity and address concerns. To extend their listening further the collective...
Bodies in transition – children starting school
Education & Development

Bodies in transition – children starting school

...researching the experience of children starting school in England has highlighted ways in which this transition could go as smoothly as possible so that the impact is a positive one...[Photos from Vicky Preece] In order to understand the experience of children, my study also looks at the experiences of those around them; their families, early years educators and teaching...
Physical and mental health for young children
Education & Development

Physical and mental health for young children

...children’s health for my doctoral research. Children's health is not as good as it could be or as good as they deserve. They have a right to good health. And it is up to the adults in their lives to do what they can to promote good health for children. This course brings together contemporary research and current knowledge about ......
Promoting the effective management of children’s pain
Health, Sports & Psychology

Promoting the effective management of children’s pain

...children’s pain, as seen in the findings from other research (Alotaibi et al 2019). Stress could also be reduced if effective interventions were available for every individual child and being able to: ‘provide the right answers or the best answers that you can, or the best care and practice and alter things to reduce that stress’. Activity 1: Effective pain...
Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing Badge icon
Education & Development

Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing

...children was being placed ‘centre stage’. Today it can be hard to realise that care settings did not consider such issues to be equally as important as children’s physical health. As a consequence of Bowlby’s work, various policies and practices changed for the better, such as hospitals allowing parents to visit their sick children, which today is taken for...