In spite of section 1(2) of the 1989 Children Act,* the time taken to conclude care proceedings has been getting longer year on year since the Act's implementation. The average length of proceedings in 2001 was about 47 weeks and a significant number of children are having to wait over ...
(2012) probed children’s interpretation of plural definites with an Act-Out-Task where the children had to respond to requests such Give me the things in the bucket. The results suggest that English children under six do not interpret plural definites maximally (exhaustively), but rather ...
6. The result was an addition to the Children Bill then going through Parliament, which became section 96 of the Children Act 1989.Subsections (1) and (2) allow a child to give unsworn evidence in any civil proceedings, even if he does not understand the nature of an oath, provided tha...
However, parents do not provide consistent feedback (Marcus, 1993; Morgan & Travis, 1989). Parents provide ‘noisy feedback,’ sometimes responding to children’s ungrammatical utterances with an expansion, but sometimes providing expansions (or whatever speech act is in question) to grammatical ...
context (Section 2.1), by defining and expounding the notions of request (Section 2.2), and direct and indirect request strategies (Section 2.3), by giving the theoretical basis that guides this study (Section 2.4), and by reviewing empirical research concerning the act of requesting (Section ...
(N = 40), first onset psychosis (N = 25) and functional neurological disorder (N = 56) versus age-matched healthy controls (N = 483), cross-sectionally. Performance was assessed using an objective assessment battery designed for use across diagnoses and settings and ...
First, although children have a right to access CPS services directly, most children access these through adults (e.g., parents, teachers, and social workers), putting children in a potentially vulnerable position, and limiting their ability to act as independent citizens and service users (...
Interactions that encourage metacognitive development and self-regulation occur first in the home environment; that is, parents, through the use of language, act as psychological cultural tools. Language has historical and cultural roots in community groups. In line with Bronfrenbrenner's theory (P....
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