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Treatment and Prevention Approaches for Economically Disadvantaged Young Children: Challenges and Opportunities
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Damashek, Amy; Ross, Denise; Corlis, McKenna; Uwayo, Margaret; Westine, Carl – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
During early childhood, economically disadvantaged children can experience challenges that affect their social-emotional, language, and physical health development across the lifespan. Psychologists have tested several interventions to address developmental problems during early childhood, but information about the degree to which economically…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Intervention, Social Emotional Learning
A Multivariate Investigation of Maternal Risks and Their Relationship to Low-Income, Preschool Children's Competencies
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Perry, Marlo A.; Fantuzzo, John W. – Applied Developmental Science, 2010
Utilizing a developmental-ecological framework, the purpose of this study was to understand the unique impact of multiple maternal risks across time on ethnically diverse, low-income, preschool children's cognitive skills, pro-social behaviors, and behavior problems. Additionally, this study sought to understand the variability of maternal risks…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Low Income Groups, Competence, Cognitive Development
Are There Long-Term Effects of Early Child Care?
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Belsky, Jay; Vandell, Deborah Lowe; Burchinal, Margaret; Clarke-Stewart, K. Alison; McCartney, Kathleen; Owen, Margaret Tresch – Child Development, 2007
Effects of early child care on children's functioning from 4 1/2 years through the end of 6th grade (M age=12.0 years) were examined in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (n=1,364). The results indicated that although parenting was a stronger and more consistent predictor of…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality
Getting Inside the "Black Box" of Head Start Quality: What Matters and What Doesn't
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Currie, Janet; Neidell, Matthew – Economics of Education Review, 2007
Critics of Head Start contend that many programs spend too much money on programs extraneous to children. On the other hand, Head Start advocates argue that the families of severely disadvantaged children need a broad range of services. Given the available evidence, it has been impossible to assess the validity of these claims. In this study, we…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Program Effectiveness, Disadvantaged Youth
Language Development and Fragile X Syndrome: Profiles, Syndrome-Specificity, and Within-Syndrome Differences
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Abbeduto, Leonard; Brady, Nancy; Kover, Sara T. – Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 2007
Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is the leading inherited cause of mental retardation. In this article, we review what is known about the language and related problems of individuals with FXS. In doing so, we focus on the syndrome-specific features of the language phenotype and on the organismic (i.e., genetic and individual neurocognitive and behavioral)…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Language Acquisition, Pragmatics, Genetic Disorders
The Children of the Cost, Quality, and Outcomes Study Go to School. Technical Report.
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Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen. S.; Burchinal, Margaret R.; Clifford, Richard M.; Yazejian, Noreen; Culkin, Mary L.; Zelazo, Janice; Howes, Carollee; Byler, Patricia; Kagan, Sharon Lynn; Rustici, Jean – 1999
Since a substantial majority of preschoolers participate in some form of child care before coming to school, the Cost, Quality, and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers Study (CQO) was designed to examine the influence of typical center-based child care on children's development during their preschool years and as they move into formal elementary…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Problems, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Behavior