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Parental Differential Treatment: Child and family characteristics associated with child outcome KU Leuven

Karla Van Leeuwen
Public Health Psychiatry, Parenting and Special Education
Research on Parental Differential Treatment</> (PDT) focuses on siblings differential experiences within the family and the associations with siblings socio-emotional characteristics. Some of these parenting differences are related to disparity in childrens developmental or temperamental characteristics, but within-family parenting differences can also lead to child perceptions of parental favoritism</></>. Research does ...

The differential role of cognitive and linguistic skills in the development of reading in Arabic language KU Leuven

Pol Ghesquière
Parenting and Special Education

The proposed longitudinal study will simultaneously target the core domains of the academic skill literacy, including word reading accuracy, fluency, phonological awareness, morphological awareness. It aims to investigate literacy development of children from kindergarten to second grade in order to learn about the predictors of and risks factors for specific reading disabilities. Firstly, there should be an identification of children at risk ...

Couple's labour force participation around parenthood: can differential labour market trajectories and resources account for doing gender? University of Antwerp

Karel Neels
Centre for Population, Family and Health
In recent decades, European societies witnessed an unprecedented increase in women's labour force participation. The rise of gender equity in education and labour markets has not been mirrored, however, by a similar shift of gender equity in families and households. The division of household work continues to be strongly gendered and labour force participation around parenthood shows more variation among women than men. Micro-economic theories ...

The attachment relationship between parents and their infants with severe or profound intellectual disabilities (ID): Psychophysiology and a bioresponse system as instruments to elucidate and support this bond. KU Leuven

Bea Maes
Parenting and Special Education, Clinical Psychology

Developing consolidated, secure attachment relationships with one’s primary caregivers at a young age yields great benefits for children’s social-emotional growth, now and later in life. Especially among children with severe or profound intellectual disabilities (SPID), who are, compared to the general population, more likely to acquire mental health problems, the importance of the parent as attachment figure is significant. However, ...

Financial literacy@School KU Leuven

Kristof De Witte
Teacher Training, FEB, Leuven, Research Centre for Finance, Brussels Campus, Universiteit Antwerpen

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There is need for increased financial education in view of widespread financial illiteracy and the benefits for individual well-being and society at large that are associated with high levels of financial literacy. Although the OECD policy recommendation to introduce financial education at school is well accepted, there is no consensus on the optimal way to implement financial education at school. We will develop a ...

Fostering parent involvement in Tibetan schools Ghent University

Martin Valcke
Department of Educational Studies

To counter negative school performance, this research focuses on foster parent engagement, involvement in Tibetan schools. The following research questions are tackled: what are the key components of parent involvement as defined by the Tibetan families in the villafe of Qiongshan (parents' perception of schools, parents' expectations of school and parental participation in schools)? How are external (parental involvement, peer ...

Family Policy, Maternal Employment and Fertility Outcomes: Socio-economic Differentials in Uptake and Effects of Childcare & Parental Leave in Belgium. University of Antwerp

Karel Neels
Centre for Population, Family and Health
The project consists of two major parts. The first part investigates gender and socio-economic differentials in the uptake of childcare and parental leave and investigates how uptake is associated to maternal employment. The second part investigates how policy uptake subsequently affects fertility outcomes. Our research addresses the question whether the small positive effects of childcare and parental leave on female employment and fertility ...

A longitudinal study on neuroanatomical predictors and growth profiles in dyslexia KU Leuven

Pol Ghesquière
Research Group Experimental Oto-rhino-laryngology, Parenting and Special Education

Children’s development of competent language, cognitive and social skills is important for living a normal and fulfilling life. Yet, a significant proportion of children suffers from the neurodevelopmental disorder developmental dyslexia (aka dyslexia), having an increased risk of societal exclusion and state-dependency. Hence, there is great need to improve differential diagnosis and guide appropriate intervention at young age. Brain imaging ...

Towards a strategy for the sustainable management of fragmented orchid populations: integrating ecology and population genetics. KU Leuven

Olivier Honnay
Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity Conservation
Habitat fragmentation is one of the most important threats to biodiversity. Plant populations are confined to very small habitat fragments in ahostile landscape matrix resulting in small population sizes. Orchids are very environmentally demanding, making them extremely vulnerable to even small changes in land use and the consequences of habitat fragmentation. Orchid species often depend on a specific pollinating genus for pollination, which ...