Example sentences of "[art] child ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Piaget ( Piaget , Jean , The Child ' s Conception of Number , Chapter I , Routledge & Kegan Paul , 1952 ) has described many experiments of this type with children of four years upwards and concluded that it was not until about the age of seven that children were able to see that a quantity of liquid remains constant although it appears to change when poured into different shaped containers . |
| 2 | Once again it must be emphasised that creative play with these materials is tremendously important , and though mathematical experience may be an integral part of that activity , the child ' s creative urge should never be sacrificed . |
| 3 | They have reported for example that fear of strangers may peak anywhere between 6 and 12 months ; that it varies in onset and intensity according to the child 's sex , its rank in the family , the number of people it meets regularly , its attachment to its mother and her responsiveness , and the age , size and sex of the stranger ; that it is different in the laboratory from at home . |
| 4 | er , progressing through the years I doubt whether samples of the child 's work are kept officially in any other form or anywhere else |
| 5 | It 's the child 's work . ’ |
| 6 | When baby 's first teeth appear we advise parents to brush the child 's teeth after a drink . ’ |
| 7 | ( 2 ) That the evidence as to the situation of the mother and child in the event of a return to Ontario did not establish a risk that the child would be placed in an intolerable situation within the meaning of article 13 ; and that , accordingly , since article 13 did not apply and since the child 's removal was wrongful , the court had no discretion but was under a mandatory duty to order the child 's return to Ontario under article 12 of the Convention ( post , pp. 871A–C , 873H — 874C , G–H , 875A ) . |
| 8 | Although it may be distressing to the mother to find that she has now to take the child back , nevertheless there is no escape in my judgment from the conclusion that the child 's return should be ordered in this case . |
| 9 | Although upon return to Canada for what might prove to be no more than a temporary visit the mother 's situation might be unsatisfactory and she might suffer discomfort or perhaps even hardship , there is no evidence that there is a risk , let alone a great one , that the child 's return would place him in a situation which is intolerable . |
| 10 | In those circumstances we have no alternative but to adopt the course dictated by the Convention and order the child 's return to Canada forthwith so that the Ontario court may proceed with its consideration of what is best for his welfare . |
| 11 | It should set out : ( i ) the reasons for , purpose and anticipated length of the child 's stay in local authority accommodation ; ( ii ) arrangements for contact ; ( iii ) any delegation of parental responsibility which may be necessary ; ( iv ) arrangements for the child 's return . |
| 12 | The questions on self-care at this age enquire about the child 's ability to dress and feed him or herself in readiness for school . |
| 13 | Perhaps the most significant achievement of the sensori-motor stage is the child 's ability to let one aspect of experience stand for , or represent , another . |
| 14 | This kind of representational ability is thought to be a particularly important developmental achievement since the essence of early language is the child 's ability to use speech sounds to represent or refer to objects , actions and locations . |
| 15 | Fourth , the adult 's ongoing assessment of the child 's ability to understand what is being said and to make herself understood , may determine what the adult talks about and the way in which adult language is related to the context . |
| 16 | It is therefore extremely important when assessing any child for language impairment to ask what kind of language is appropriate for the child 's home and immediate environment , and whether or not the child 's ability is consistent with her experience and the expectations of those around her . |
| 17 | It is only changes in test scores which exceed these reliability estimates that can be regarded as reflecting real changes in the child 's ability . |
| 18 | First , it is appropriate for those working with a child to try to communicate at the right level ; this means introducing language structures with which the child is already familiar and trying to ensure that the content of conversations is appropriate to the child 's ability to understand and to her interests . |
| 19 | Second , since intervention is often directed at the areas of relative weakness in a child 's linguistic abilities , it may be helpful to identify what these are and to what extent they are likely to impair the child 's ability to communicate in a variety of settings . |
| 20 | The second requires the child to make a verbal response to either a verbal or a non-verbal stimulus and is used as a measure of the child 's ability to produce spoken language . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , imitation makes special demands upon the child 's pragmatic skills and may not , therefore , always provide an accurate indication of the child 's ability to produce language spontaneously ( Ingram 1974 ) or of the child 's underlying linguistic competence ( Slobin and Welsh 1973 ) . |
| 22 | A third point is that the pro file indicates the child 's ability to control aspects of the emerging adult grammatical system and therefore makes the assumption that , for children , language learning is about the acquisition of that adult system . |
| 23 | If a British child scored relatively poorly in a North American test , this could only be interpreted in terms of the child 's ability relative to that of North American children . |
| 24 | auditory sequential memory ( the child 's ability to recall a random sequence of numbers ) ; |
| 25 | visual sequential memory ( the child 's ability to repeat a sequence of non-meaningful figures from memory ) . |
| 26 | Where the subtests can be shown to be reliable and valid , such subtests scores may provide a useful profile of the child 's ability in a variety of areas . |
| 27 | Immature speech in the very young child or delayed speech can interfere with the child 's ability to express needs and desires and create a sense of frustration . |
| 28 | First , the temperament of the child ( … ) and particularly the child 's ability to withstand stress and uncertainty . |
| 29 | Early studies in this area focused on the child 's ability to enact speaker and listener roles . |
| 30 | Most research on pretence has examined the child 's ability to produce a pretend action . |