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From Best Practices to Breakthrough Impacts: A Science-Based Approach to Building a More Promising Future for Young Children and Families
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Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, 2016
The creation of this document has been driven by an intensive review process by the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child and the National Forum on Early Childhood Policy and Programs to assure the credibility of its scientific content. Over the past 12 years, the Council's ongoing work to bring science to bear on public policies for…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Public Policy, Child Development, Young Children
From Best Practices to Breakthrough Impacts: A Science-Based Approach to Building A More Promising Future for Young Children and Families. Key Findings from the Report
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Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, 2016
These are the key findings from the "From Best Practices to Breakthrough Impacts: A Science-Based Approach to Building a More Promising Future for Young Children and Families". Early childhood is a time of great promise and rapid change, when the architecture of the developing brain is most open to the influences of relationships and…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Child Development, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Young Children
Historical Roots of Developmental Science
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Ittel, Angela; Kretschmer, Tina – European Journal of Developmental Science, 2007
Developmental Science aims to generate a new body of knowledge that encompasses and integrates findings from various well-defined academic disciplines concerned with developmental processes of human and non-human organisms. Although all development related research traditions surely have their own distinct history, certain theoretical ideas…
Descriptors: Individual Development, Developmental Stages, Social Influences, Child Development
Brain Basis for Dyslexia: A Summary of Work in Progress.
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Flowers, D. Lynn – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1993
This article summarizes work in progress at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine (North Carolina) on the structure and physiological profiles of reading disability and relates the findings to core left-hemisphere language functions. Data add evidence of the structural anomalies associated with dyslexia and evidence of its heritability, especially of…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Dyslexia, Genetics, Heredity
Reading Technology and the Brain (Reading Technology).
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Rickelman, Robert J.; Henk, William A. – Reading Teacher, 1990
Shares information about the latest technology which offers expanded insights into the reading process and how the brain operates. (MG)
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Dyslexia, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Processes
Brain Research: Implications for the Education of Exceptional Children. Abstract XV: Research & Resources on Special Education.
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ERIC Clearinghouse on Handicapped and Gifted Children, Reston, VA. – 1987
The one-page abstract summarizes "Brain Research: Implications for the Education of Exceptional Children," an ERIC Computer Search Reprint containing bibliographic information and abstracts of 115 documents. Citations are described in five sections: learning disabilities, autism, other learning handicaps, assessment techniques, and instructional…
Descriptors: Autism, Brain, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Evaluation Methods
Dyslexia: Introduction to the Special Series.
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Sawyer, Diane J. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1993
This article introduces two conference papers (EC 607 450 and 451) which discuss the link between basic research into brain structure and function and the applied issues of instructional intervention in dyslexia. The papers, based on longitudinal studies at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine (North Carolina), were presented at a Middle Tennessee…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Dyslexia, Intervention