Purpose: Most children who enter out-of-home care (OHC) have been subjected to prolonged maltreatment. Maltreatment potentially contributes to a cumulative deficit in neurocognitive maturation and development that is likely to proceed with the child’s placement into OHC and persist throughout adulthood...
it is interesting how child-and parent-related factors influence this interaction. Studies suggest that age at adoption, duration of institutionalization and quality of care in institution are risk factors for socioemotional development of internationally adopted children [8,20,37]. It has been suggeste...
Japanese fathers are typically less involved in child-rearing than North American fathers, but when the researchers examined the children's milestones at age 3, they discovered that children whose fathers invested more time in their care showed better gross and fine motor skills, problem solving, a...
Since parents are in an ideal position to support their children’s learning by offering one-on-one attention and making immediate modifications when needed (Leach & Siddall,1990), parents of children with LDs are often involved in tutoring their child’s learning activities and in delivering inte...
from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project showed that 29% of the children experiencing early disrupted foster care (alongside changes and deficits in the caregiving environment) had ADHD symptoms at the age of 12 years [25]. They found that the elevated ADHD symptoms in children from ...
In a different study, the potential for the early detection of developmental impairments in children was explored, using diagnostic information from the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and supplementary information, including prescription history, treatment duration, and frequency records [80]...