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Experience of Adults and Children in Hospitals
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Rokach, Ami; Parvini, Maneli – Early Child Development and Care, 2011
This review article examines the experience, in general but especially, of hospitalised children. The technical, environmental and social aspects of a hospital are described. Being hospitalised, especially for a child, could be a terrifying and painful experience. This experience has been described and closely examined with the aim of helping…
Descriptors: Hospitals, Hospitalized Children, Health Needs, Childhood Needs
The Refuge: An After-School Care Programme for African-American Children in Poverty
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Tuason, Ma. Teresa; Marcetic, Andjela; Roberts, Shavaun; Stuart, Karly; Rearick, Jessica – Early Child Development and Care, 2009
The Refuge is an after-school care programme in the southeastern USA that caters to the academic and psychological needs of impoverished African-American children. This study evaluated the Refuge through interviews with staff, small group discussions with children and persistent observation. By evaluating the after-school care services they…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, Poverty, Family Relationship, Student Attitudes
Longitudinal Outcomes from the Family Development Research Program
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Honig, Alice Sterling – Early Child Development and Care, 2004
The Family Development Research Program (FDRP) was begun as an omnibus effort to serve low-income, low-education families by providing education, nutrition, health, safety, and human service resources for the 108 families initially recruited. Very deprived families were recruited early in the last trimester of pregnancy. All the families had an…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Educational Objectives, Research Projects, Program Descriptions