Quality of Educational Programs for Elementary School-Age Students With Autism

The purpose of this study was to assess the quality of educational programs for school-aged children with autism in the United States. Investigators completed the Autism Program Environment Quality Rating Systems-Preschool/Elementary (APERS-PE) in 60 elementary schools enrolling children with autism. The mean total rating scores were near the midpoint rating, indicating schools were providing educational program environments classified as adequate but not of high quality. Domains of the APERS-PE reflecting structural quality tended to be significantly above average and domains reflecting process quality tended to be significantly below average. With a few exceptions, inclusive and special education program did not differ significantly in total program quality ratings and reflected the same pattern of domain quality ratings.

Cognitive Development of Children Aged 4-7 Years During The Covid-19 Pandemic

Cognitive development is one aspect of child development that is very important to get intervention during the COVID-19 pandemic, Cognitive development is a development that is closely related to thinking skills, such as reasoning, memory, and the ability to solve practical problems. The cognitive mindset of early childhood is very much different from people who are teenagers and adults or even children who are in middle school and above. Elementary school age children have limitations in thinking about abstract things, cognitive development has a correlation with other developments and will have an impact especially on children's academic abilities. The purpose of this paper is to examine how the cognitive development of early childhood during the covid-19 pandemic and what strategies are carried out by parents in developing cognitive development of early childhood during the covid-19 pandemic? Based on the formulation of the problem above, the data analysis technique used in this study is an interactive model of data analysis in analysing the data carried out in three ways, namely data reduction activities, data presentation and also data conclusions. as well as parents. These results and discussions describe various issues related to cognitive development problems such as several barriers to children's activities and activities that have an impact on children's cognitive during the COVID-19 pandemic in Pangkalan Kuras District, Pelalawan Regency, Riau Province. In conclusion, this study aims to describe the cognitive development of early childhood during the COVID-19 pandemic and provide views regarding several activities that can be internalized to stimulate children's cognitive development.

Automatic Height and Weight Measurement Integrated Database System

Measurement of height and weight, it is needed especially for school age 5-15 years old. From the results of monitoring height and weight measurements, we can monitor whether the child is underweight or overweight and obese. We can also monitor the growth of elementary school age children. The problem faced is that monitoring the growth of children in schools cannot be carried out effectively. This is because the process of measuring children's height and weight is done manually and of course it takes time for the process, besides that, data on student height and weight are also recorded still manually, so that data processing and utilization is not optimal. The purpose of making this Automatic Height and Weight Measurement Integrated Database System to process of measuring height and weight can be done effectively and efficiently, so it can produce integrated information in Database. The existence of an integrated database will make it easier for related parties to recap and archive children's data and store history of children's growth as material for evaluating and monitoring child growth. The results of this evaluation can be used as a reference for follow-up to be conducted. The resulting output is information in the form of tables and graphs of children's growth. In this research using the prototyping method which aims to get an overview of the tool to be designed and built, then it will be evaluated by the user. The evaluated prototype will be used as a reference to make a tool as the final product as the output of this research.

The Existence of the Development of Integrated Islamic Education Institutions (SDIT) and Madrasah in Purwodadi Village

This research aims to analyze the problem of the development of integrated Islamic elementary schools and madrasah in purwodadi village. The approach used is a descriptive approach to analysis of qualitative data. In addition, the data collection techniques used in the study used observation, interviews and documentation. The result of this study is the problem of the development of Islamic-based school trends (SDIT) that have an impact on madrasah. Purwodadi Village has 1 General Kindergarten and 2 TKIT, elementary school consists of 2 State Elementary Schools and 2 SDIT and Madrasah Ibtida'iyah (MI) only 1. So that the total elementary school age education institution in one village has 4 elementary schools. The development of an Integrated Islamic school in purwodadi village had an impact on madrasah. One of the advantages of SDIT has learning programs such as memorization of quran and hadith, sunnah Dhuha prayer before starting learning activities, murojaah, dzuhur prayer before school, Friday almsgiving, and other activities. These activities are then a special consideration for parents in choosing educational institutions for their children. While madrasah does not have an activity program that supports learning such as in SDIT. One of the effects is the reduced interest of students who attend madrassas. This is because of the trend of Islamic schools that develop in the village with a variety of learning programs offered.

Literature Review: Efektivitas Penggunaan Media Video Dalam Meningkatkan Pengetahuan Menyikat Gigi Yang Benar Pada Anak Sekolah Dasar

Elementary school-age children still have the largest proportion of dental and oral health problems, one of which is caused by low knowledge about proper tooth brushing, knowledge can be increased through dental health education learning, including especially video media. The use of video media is considered to be able to increase the knowledge of correct brushing of teeth in elementary school children because it is able to display images and sounds so that children like it. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of using video media in increasing the knowledge of proper brushing of teeth in elementary school children. This type of research is a literature review. The search for journals was carried out in 2015-2020 on the Google Scholar, DOAJ, PubMed database in English and Indonesian. The results of this study showed an increase in student's knowledge after counseling with video media from the medium category to the good category so that research using video media was more effective. It can be concluded that the use of video media is effective in increasing the knowledge of correct brushing of teeth in elementary school children. Anak usia sekolah dasar masih memiliki proporsi terbesar masalah kesehatan gigi dan mulut, salah satunya yang disebabkan oleh rendahnya pengetahuan tentang menyikat gigi yang benar, pengetahuan dapat ditingkatkan melalui pembelajaran pendidikan kesehatan gigi termasuk khususnya media video. Penggunaan media video dinilai mampu meningkatkan pengetahuan menyikat gigi yang benar pada anak sekolah dasar karena mampu menampilkan gambar dan suara sehingga anak-anak menyukai. Tujuan Penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui efektivitas penggunaan media video dalam meningkatkan pengetahuan menyikat gigi yang benar pada anak sekolah dasar. Jenis penelitian ini adalah literature review. Pencarian jurnal dilakukan tahu 2015-2020 pada data base Google Scholar, DOAJ, PubMed dalam bahasa inggris dan indonesia Hasil penelitian ini adanya peningkatan pengetahuan siswa/i setelah dilakukan penyuluhan dengan media video dari kategori sedang menjadi kategori baik, sehingga penelitian menggunakan media video lebih efektif. Dapat disimpulkan bahwa penggunaan media video efektif untuk meningkatkan pengetahuan menyikat gigi yang benar pada anak sekolah dasar.

Literature Review: Efektivitas Penggunaan Media Video Dalam Meningkatkan Pengetahuan Menyikat Gigi Yang Benar Pada Anak Sekolah Dasar

Elementary school-age children still have the largest proportion of dental and oral health problems, one of which is caused by low knowledge about proper tooth brushing, knowledge can be increased through dental health education learning, including especially video media. The use of video media is considered to be able to increase the knowledge of correct brushing of teeth in elementary school children because it is able to display images and sounds so that children like it. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of using video media in increasing the knowledge of proper brushing of teeth in elementary school children. This type of research is a literature review. The search for journals was carried out in 2015-2020 on the Google Scholar, DOAJ, PubMed database in English and Indonesian. The results of this study showed an increase in student's knowledge after counseling with video media from the medium category to the good category so that research using video media was more effective. It can be concluded that the use of video media is effective in increasing the knowledge of correct brushing of teeth in elementary school children. Anak usia sekolah dasar masih memiliki proporsi terbesar masalah kesehatan gigi dan mulut, salah satunya yang disebabkan oleh rendahnya pengetahuan tentang menyikat gigi yang benar, pengetahuan dapat ditingkatkan melalui pembelajaran pendidikan kesehatan gigi termasuk khususnya media video. Penggunaan media video dinilai mampu meningkatkan pengetahuan menyikat gigi yang benar pada anak sekolah dasar karena mampu menampilkan gambar dan suara sehingga anak-anak menyukai. Tujuan Penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui efektivitas penggunaan media video dalam meningkatkan pengetahuan menyikat gigi yang benar pada anak sekolah dasar. Jenis penelitian ini adalah literature review. Pencarian jurnal dilakukan tahu 2015-2020 pada data base Google Scholar, DOAJ, PubMed dalam bahasa inggris dan indonesia Hasil penelitian ini adanya peningkatan pengetahuan siswa/i setelah dilakukan penyuluhan dengan media video dari kategori sedang menjadi kategori baik, sehingga penelitian menggunakan media video lebih efektif. Dapat disimpulkan bahwa penggunaan media video efektif untuk meningkatkan pengetahuan menyikat gigi yang benar pada anak sekolah dasar.

Hyponatremia During Induction Therapy in Distinct Pediatric Oncological Cohorts: A Retrospective Study

BackgroundHyponatremia is a well-known adverse event of repeated therapy with vincristine in oncological patients. However, to date, data in pediatric patients with malignant diseases other than acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) are sparse or lacking.Materials and MethodsA retrospective study of 98 pediatric patients was conducted to analyze the incidence of hyponatremia in a Caucasian cohort of newly diagnosed ALL. For comparison, we further examined five other pediatric oncological cohorts (Hodgkin’s disease, Ewing sarcoma, Wilms tumor, benign glioma of the CNS, Langerhans cell histiocytosis) that receive alkaloids in their induction regimes.ResultsWe found a high incidence of hyponatremia (14.7%) in our ALL cohort with a trend toward male patients of elementary school age. None of the affected patients showed neurological symptoms. By comparison, patients from other malignancy groups did not show significant hyponatremia, regardless of their comparable therapy with alkaloids. We here show a noticeable coincidence of hyponatremia and hypertriglyceridemia in ALL patients, indicating a possible role of L-asparaginase-related hypertriglyceridemia in the development of severe hyponatremia in such patients.ConclusionWe report a higher incidence of hyponatremia following vincristine therapy in Caucasian children with ALL than published before. This hyponatremia could not be demonstrated in other oncologic cohorts treated with alkaloids. L-Asparaginase-induced hypertriglyceridemia may play a role in the certainly multifactorial development of hyponatremia in childhood leukemia.

The Evaluation of AR Mobile App as a Learning Media for Children

A user evaluation stage is an integral part of designing an application. A practical evaluation can provide an overview of the problems that arise in the application and improve the user experience. The Kupuku application is an augmented reality (AR)-based game application for learning about butterflies. The Kupuku application is specifically intended for children aged 6-13 years. The user sample was selected using a purposive sampling method with the criteria for users of elementary school-age children for the child user segment and their companions as the adult user segment. This study aims to evaluate the usability of the Kupuku game application to users. User evaluation was carried out to measure the application’s usability. The evaluation process was conducted on two user segments, namely 20 child users and 16 adult users. Assessment of children employed the Fun Toolkit and usability factor-based question - Nielsen method. The obtained results showed positive feedbacks. In contrast, the assessment for adult users utilized the system usability scale (SUS) and the user experience questionnaire (UEQ). The SUS score of 76 was included in the good category, and the UEQ score produced an excellent average. The test results indicate that this application can be accepted by users, both children, and adults.