Each issue is discussed, and action principles and leadership strategies are presented in hopes of moving an action agenda to assure linguistically and culturally diverse preschoolers access to high quality and developmentally appropriate preschool experiences....
Pre-school children in families of recently settled refugees often have very high rates of early childhood caries (ECC). ECC is associated with a high level of morbidity and is largely preventable, however effective culturally appropriate models of care
“the therapist has appropriate skills in knowing when to generalize and be inclusive and when to individualize and be exclusive” with expertise specific to a culture. The third step (Development of Personalization Tools) involves developing targeted modifications that can be applied to a particular ...
The primary aim of the Healthy Beginnings program is to establish healthy behaviours in early life to prevent obesity corresponding to key milestones of child development. Primary behavioural outcomes relate to increased breastfeeding rate and duration, appropriate timing of introducing complementary foods ...
One possible explanation of our results might be related to the quality of cultural adaptation of the interventions. The cultural adaptation processes were rarely well defined in the included studies. Therefore, it was not clear whether aspects of cultural adaptation were appropriate. In addition, the...
Later in the same interview, the same spoken form was understood by the learner and the learner initiated an appropriate answer to the teacher’s question to display his understanding. In the subsequent part of the interview, the learner employed the first-person equivalent of the spoken form ...
In addition, the study has many practical implications for CALD families, including the role of service navigators in supporting service access appropriate to their individual needs. Another strength is that this study reached data saturation in that new codes or themes were not emerging and new ...
Synonyms Cultural competence;Cultural proficiency;Culturally relevant;Developmentally appropriate practices;Diversity;Early childhood education;High-quality early childhood programs;Innovative approaches to learning;Multiculturalism;Play;Teacher effectiveness;Teaching;Young children ...
Acceptability scored highest with a mean (SD) of 4.25 (.84) out of 5, appropriateness 4.18 (.86) and feasibility 4.06 (.96) supporting intervention to be acceptable, appropriate, and feasible. Conclusion Utilizing a culturally based intervention to buffer stress and support the well-being of ...
Hyun, E, Marshall, JD (1997) Theory of multiple/multiethnic perspective-taking ability for teachers’ developmentally and culturally appropriate practice (DCAP). Journal of Research on Childhood Education 11: pp. 188-198Hyun, E., & Marshall, J. D. (1997). Theory of multiple/multiethnic ...