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Direct linkBrito, Natalie H.; Werchan, Denise; Brandes-Aitken, Annie; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu; Greaves, Ashley; Zhang, Maggie – Child Development, 2022
The first months of life are critical for establishing neural connections relevant for social and cognitive development. Yet, the United States lacks a national policy of paid family leave during this important period of brain development. This study examined associations between paid leave and infant electroencephalography (EEG) at 3 months in a…
Descriptors: Infants, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Leaves of Absence, Mothers
Download full textKalil, Ariel; Ryan, Rebecca – Future of Children, 2020
In this article, developmental psychologists Ariel Kalil and Rebecca Ryan examine the relation between parenting practices and socioeconomic gaps in child outcomes. They document substantial differences between richer and poorer families, including growing gaps in parental engagement and time use. These gaps matter: the fact that children born to…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Parenting Styles, Socioeconomic Influences, Parent Child Relationship
Romeo, Rachel R.; Leonard, Julia A.; Scherer, Ethan; Robinson, Sydney; Takada, Megumi; Mackey, Allyson P.; West, Martin R.; Gabrieli, John D. E. – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2021
Childhood socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with persistent academic achievement gaps, which necessitates evidence-based, scalable interventions to improve children's outcomes. The present study reports results from a replication and extension of a family-based training program previously found to improve cognitive development in lower-SES…
Descriptors: Family Programs, Low Income Groups, Preschool Children, Child Development
Black, Caroline F. D.; Schindler, Holly; Duncan, Greg; Magnuson, Katherine; Shonkoff, Jack; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
For over five decades, teen parent programs (TPPs) have offered mothers an opportunity to increase their self-sufficiency and invest in their children's development. Yet to date, no systematic review has examined overall effects of these programs on parenting behaviors or child developmental outcomes. Using a meta-analytic database of 25 studies,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Family Programs, Program Effectiveness, Early Parenthood
Fernald, Lia C. H.; Kagawa, Rose M. C.; Knauer, Heather A.; Schnaas, Lourdes; Guerra, Armando Garcia; Neufeld, Lynnette M. – Developmental Psychology, 2017
We examined effects on child development of a group-based parenting support program ("Educación Inicial" - EI) when combined with Mexico's conditional cash transfer (CCT) program ("Prospera," originally 'Oportunidades" and "Progresa"). This cluster-randomized trial included 204 communities (n = 1,113 children in…
Descriptors: Child Development, Welfare Services, Poverty Programs, Family Programs
Gebhard, Barbara; Ullrich, Rebecca; Cole, Patricia; Matthews, Hannah; Schmit, Stephanie – Center for Law and Social Policy, Inc. (CLASP), 2017
Early Head Start (EHS) is an evidence-based, federally funded, and community-based program with a two-generation approach to child development for children under age 3 and pregnant women in poverty. The mission of EHS is to support healthy prenatal outcomes; enhance the intellectual, social, and emotional development of infants and toddlers; and…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Child Development, Young Children, Family Programs
Malone, Lizabeth; Bernstein, Sara; Atkins-Burnett, Sally; Xue, Yange – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2018
Head Start is a national program that aims to promote school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive development of children through the provision of educational, health, nutritional, social, and other services to enrolled children and families. The program places special emphasis on helping preschoolers develop the reading, language,…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Preschool Children
Niklas, Frank; Schneider, Wolfgang – First Language, 2017
Children develop linguistic competencies during interactions with more knowledgeable others. Consequently, one way to support this development is by enhancing the home literacy environment (HLE) in which children live. In this study a non-intensive intervention procedure was developed to improve HLE and linguistic competencies of 125 German…
Descriptors: Intervention, Family Environment, Family Literacy, Vocabulary Development
