Word: preschooler
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...convert his concerns into legislation, Mondale has established an impressive record in the Senate. Now chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Children and Youth, Mondale sponsored a comprehensive child development program in 1971, which would have provided $2.1 billion for health care, nutritional aid and educational assistance for preschool children. The bill containing his plan was vetoed by Richard Nixon...
...which is included in the three-way D.T.P. (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis) shots that have long been standard treatment for all infants. In some areas, Whalen says, less than half of the entering class have been immunized. There have been similar or even greater drop-offs in vaccinations among preschool children in most other states...
Engaged. Princess Maria Christina, 27, fourth and youngest daughter of The Netherlands' Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard and ninth in line to the Dutch throne; and Jorge Guillermo, 28, a Cuban refugee and a teacher of preschool youngsters in Harlem. Classical music buffs who met in 1973, the couple, after a June wedding in The Netherlands, will live in New York City, where Christina teaches French and music at a Montessori school...
Nursery and elementary schools have been severely affected by the declining birth rate too. The number of preschool-age children in 1970 was 17 million, a drop of 3 million in a decade, the largest recorded decline in that group. Public expenditure for education has not dropped, of course; inflation assures that the costs of operating schools will continue to go up. But new construction has been slowing down, and some schools have been forced to close for lack of pupils. Salt Lake City has closed 20 public schools, including three junior high schools, in the past eight years because...
Frank and Levinson have devised an instrument that a school nurse can use to detect the ear disturbance. Thus, they suggest, primary dyslexia can now be diagnosed in preschool children. The two doctors are also searching for a physiological treatment for the disorder; in a small pilot program, they have begun to study the effect of cyclizine, a motion-sickness drug, on the reading ability of dyslexic children...