Developmental vulnerability
13
Dec
A pre-school arts program may help decrease stress in economically disadvantaged young children
A study, by scientists at West Chester University and the University of Delaware, which appeared in the journal Child Development and funded by the Research: Art Works program at the National Endowment for the Arts proposes that arts programs may help lower stress in economically disadvantaged pre-schoolers. Everyone should know, these days, that poverty can […]
02
Nov
Does being thin as a child have its own problems?
The weight debate goes on... The association between Body Mass Index (BMI) and child development has been recently investigated in over seven and a half thousand South Australian children at school entry. Unlike many previous studies which combined groups of both thin and healthy weight children as the baseline, this study differentiated between thinness and [...]