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Promoting Early Child Development

2021
Current estimates suggest that over 200 million children are at risk of suboptimal cognitive development globally, with the majority living in low-income communities. This has profound implications for mental and physical health, learning attainment, and productivity throughout the life course.
Supriya Bhavnani   +3 more
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Early Child Development

2020
Early childhood is a period that is associated with the development process of children. It was determined that physical, motor, cognitive, language, emotional and social development, which was created in accordance with the characteristics of the developmental period of children in the early childhood, did not change much direction in later ages, the ...
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Distributional effects of Oportunidades on early child development [PDF]

open access: possibleSocial Science & Medicine, 2014
The Mexican Oportunidades program is designed to increase human capital through investments in education, health, and nutrition for children in extreme poverty. Although the program is not expressly designed to promote a child's cognitive and non-cognitive development, the set of actions carried out by the program could eventually facilitate ...
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Early Childcare and Child Development

Journal of Social Policy, 2009
AbstractNowadays many more young children experience non-maternal childcare than in the past. From a theoretical perspective, the effect this may have on their cognitive and behavioural development is unclear. This paper uses data from the UK for a sample of children in the Millennium Cohort Study, whose mothers were working when they were nine months ...
KIRSTINE HANSEN, DENISE HAWKES
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EARLY CHILD DEVELOPMENT

Children and Young People Now
Indicators suggest more children are not developing the social, emotional and communication skills they need to have the best start in life prompting policymakers to focus on boosting early years support
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Early Intervention in Child Development

2020
Early intervention refers to programs developed for infants and young children with developmental delays or inadequacies or who are at risk group, and their families. The aim of the early intervention is providing services for children with disabilities, minimizing their developmental delay and disability levels and guiding parents for positive ...
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Parental mental disorder and early child development

European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 1994
In a prospective longitudinal study of 354 parents and their first-born infants the association between parental psychopathology and risk for maladjustment in the offspring was investigated. At age two infants of disturbed parents displayed significantly poorer language performance and had higher scores of behaviour problems as compared to infants of ...
Manfred, Laucht   +2 more
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The Child Study Movement: Early Growth and Development of the Symbolized Child

1982
Publisher Summary The child study movement brought to a focus a number of motives and needs in American society in the late nineteenth century. Child study was not a simple outgrowth of either scientific progress or social change. It was something that happened at a meeting place of science and society.
A W, Siegel, S H, White
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Ethnic and familial factors in early child development

American Journal of Human Biology, 1992
AbstractA sample (1,031 individuals) of infants born at varying gestational ages (26–42 weeks) and birth weights (860–4,750 g) was used in a study of 5 developmental traits appearing during the first 2 years of life: the ages at which a child could turn over, sit up, stand up, walk without support, and eruption of the first tooth.
Itshak, Otremski   +2 more
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Early child care and early child development: Major findings of the NICHD study of early child care

European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2006
The changing landscape of maternal employment in the USA has led to more and more children at younger and younger ages experiencing routine, non-maternal care. Great debate about the effects of day care beginning very early in life led to the launch of a major study in the USA, following more than 1000 children from birth.
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