Category: D

A learning style in which a child is given information or materials about a variety of specific situations and learns to draw a general conclusion or rule from them; also called inductive learning.  

In dental care, tablets that harmlessly tint areas of the teeth that have not been brushed thoroughly. Such tablets are especially useful for young children, up to perhaps age eight, as they are learning to brush their own teeth.  

A formal document certifying that a student has successfully completed a course of study, generally offered at graduation from a high school, college, or graduate school; sometimes called a degree, parchment, or sheepskin, especially at the college level. Colleges that give degrees too easily or even fraudulently, for no work at all, are sometimes called…

Problems and diseases affecting the long, complex system by which food is broken into substances to be used in the body and waste products to be excreted. In the digestive system, food enters the mouth, where is it chewed and softened with saliva and then swallowed in the throat and the long tube called the…

A kind of birth defect in which an abnormal hole in the diaphragm allows some abdominal organs, especially the intestines, to move into the space normally occupied by the lungs, a situation that can be identified by some kinds of prenatal testing, notably ultrasound. Often the chest space becomes so crowded that the lungs cannot…

Tables of behavior considered appropriate to various age levels for children being tested with the Gesell Preschool Test or the Gesell School Readiness Test Complete Battery.  

The age at which a child begins to be able to do certain key kinds of activities, especially in the area of motor skills, cognitive skills, self-help skills, social skills, and communication skills. A Chart of Normal Development, reproduced, indicates when, between birth and age six, children first on the average begin to do certain…

In general, an alternate term for educational age but more specifically a child’s score on the Gesell Preschool Test; sometimes called maturational age (MA). Measure of a child’s developmental progress in, e.g., body size, motor skills, or psychological functioning, expressed as an age. An index of maturation expressed in months or years, which represents a…

In government social services, a synonym for protective or emergency custody; in cases of child abuse or neglect, social workers generally file a detention request, calling for a detention hearing to be held, usually within 24 hours of filing, to see whether the child should be kept apart from the family until a full court…