SAYCam: A Large, Longitudinal Audiovisual Dataset Recorded From The Infant’s Perspective

We introduce a new resource: the SAYCam corpus. Infants aged 6–32 months wore a head-mounted camera for approximately 2 hr per week, over the course of approximately two-and-a-half years. The result is a large, naturalistic, longitudinal dataset of infant- and child-perspective videos. Over 200,000 words of naturalistic speech have already been transcribed. Similarly, the dataset is searchable using a number of criteria (e.g., age of participant, location, setting, objects present). The resulting dataset will be of broad use to psychologists, linguists, and computer scientists.

What’s missing from the nation’s report card

This study re-envisions the Nation’s Report Card from a “whole child” perspective that considers not just students’ academic achievement, but also their physical and mental health. Jaekyung Lee’s integrated analysis of the National Assessment of Educational Progress and the National Survey of Children’s Health datasets reveals that many of our children and youth are not in good shape, getting the average grade of C, with grades of B+ for physical health, C for socioemotional wellness, and D for academic proficiency. The analysis also shows that better health and wellness measures are associated with higher achievement. In addition, the states with stronger “whole community” scores, which measure protective and nurturing family-school-neighborhood environments, produce students who do better on all measures.

Barns övergång från förskola till skola: en multipel fallstudie om övergångsaktiviteter

The aim of this study was to study children’s transitions from preschool to school in two municipalities in Sweden and also activities that were intended to make these transitions effective. A mixed method approach and a multiple-case study design were used. The result showed that children’s transitions from preschool to school differed, that several transition activities were performed, that transition activities were general or extra and also proximal or distal – seen from a child perspective. Several development areas appeared as being particularly important when working towards improvement of preschool-school transitions.

Parents' Perspectives on Adverse Effects of Pharmacological Treatment of Depression on Parental Functioning

BackgroundA substantial number of parents receive pharmacological treatment for depression. Pharmacological treatment is known to reduce symptoms, but has also various side effects.AimThe present study aimed to explore possible adverse effects of pharmacological treatment for depression on parental functioning.MethodSix mothers and four fathers, diagnosed with depression, of children younger than 13 years were recruited via outpatient psychiatric clinics. Data was collected through individual semi-structured interviews and analyzed using thematic analysis.ResultsParents described how anxiety suppressants made them fatigued and drowsy which diminished their attention and ability to focus on the child. Moreover, antidepressants and anxiety suppressants were described to cause fatigue, emotional blunting, and restlessness, which made play and stimulation difficult. Emotional blunting, in turn, affected the parents' sense of commitment, empathy, and love for the child. Finally, parents raised concerns about child safety as hypnotics and anxiety suppressants made them unable to wake up at night.ConclusionsConsidering the substantial adverse effects described, parents of minor aged children within psychiatric care needs to be identified in order to offer systematic follow-ups of the effects of pharmacological treatment on parental functioning, and to make adjustments that are feasible from a parent and child perspective.

Barnrättspolitik och vuxensyn

Children’s rights policies and the adult perspective – stability and change in the outreach work of BRIS?This article sets out to explore how a Swedish children’s rights organization has accounted for adults’ capability or incompetence to address children’s interests and how such notions have changed over time and have been negotiated between actors within the organization. Since its establishment in 1971, The Children’s Rights in Society (BRIS – Barnens rätt i samhället) has been an organization of adults working for children. Children’s rights organizations often stress that their work is guided by a child perspective, although much children’s rights advocacy is performed by adults. What is the bearing of this discrepancy when it comes to the formulation of child rights policies? Is it possible to distinguish an adult perspective operating in the shadow of the embraced child perspective? The results demonstrate that in the 1970s, the organization identified parents as the children’s main betrayers, but that the importance of child experts and child welfare professionals as advocates for children’s voices and opinions was gradually emphasized more. During the second period of study (2007–16) the need for increased resources and competences of child welfare professionals has been accentuated as welfare institutions such as school, social services and child and adolescent psychiatry are simultaneously seen as the cause of and key to children’s problems while the generational conflict between children and parents has been downplayed.

SAYCam: A large, longitudinal audiovisual dataset recorded from the infant’s perspective

We introduce a new resource: the SAYCam corpus. Infants aged 6-32 months wore a head-mounted camera for approximately 2 hours per week, over the course of approximately two and a half years. The result is a large, naturalistic, longitudinal dataset of infant- and child-perspective videos. Over 200,000 words of naturalistic speech have already been transcribed. Similarly, the dataset is searchable using a number of criteria (e.g., age of participant, location, setting, objects present). The resulting dataset will be of broad use to psychologists, linguists, and computer scientists.