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			Child care and children with special needs: Challenges for low income families: Final report Ward, Helen D., December, 2006 Portland, ME: Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service, Institute for Child and Family Policy. A multi-method study, focusing predominantly on Maine, of the challenges and barriers facing low-income working families with special needs children in finding and retaining child care services and in balancing work and family, based on parent interviews and focus groups, a field study, a child care provider survey, a parent survey, and an analysis of data from the 1997, 1999, and 2002 rounds of the National Survey of America's Families	Reports & Papers
			Child care and children with special needs: Challenges for low income families: Parents' voices Ward, Helen D., 2004 Portland, ME: Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service. A qualitative examination of the experiences of a sample of Maine parents and guardians of children with special needs in accessing child care and early intervention services	Reports & Papers
			The child care arrangements of preschool-age children in immigrant families in the United States Brandon, Peter D., 2004 International Migration, 42(2), 65-87 A comparison of the use of child care arrangements among immigrant families to non-immigrant families	Reports & Papers
			Childhood social environment and Hodgkin's lymphoma: New findings from a population-based case-control study Chang, Ellen T., 2004 Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention, 13(8), 1361-1370 A study examining the potential relationship between childhood social environments and incidence of Hodgkin's lymphoma	Reports & Papers
			The children of the Cost, Quality, and Outcomes Study go to school Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen S., 1999 Chapel Hill, NC: Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center. The longitudinal follow up to the Cost, Quality, and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers Study, following children for five years to assess the impact of quality of child care experiences on later development.	Reports & Papers
			Children's experiences in center-based child care as a function of teacher background and adult:child ratio Howes, Carollee, 1997 Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 43(3), 404-425 An examination of child care quality in relation to adult: child ratio and teacher education, using the Cost, Quality and Outcome (CQO) and Florida Quality Improvement study datasets	Reports & Papers
			Children's social and cognitive development and child-care quality: Testing for differential associations related to poverty, gender, or ethnicity Burchinal, Margaret, 2000 Applied Developmental Science, 4(3), 149-165 A study of the influence of poverty, minority ethnic background, gender, and parental authoritarian beliefs on the relationship between child care quality and children�s developmental outcomes	Reports & Papers
			Coming together for children with disabilities: State collaboration to support quality, inclusive child care Mezey, Jennifer, 2003 Washington, DC: Center for Law and Social Policy. A study of state policies which would provide special education and early intervention services to low-income children with disabilities in child care programs	Reports & Papers
			A comparison of European American and Puerto Rican parent's beliefs and expectations concerning early intervention programs for preschool children Achhpal, Beena, 2000 Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Connecticut, Storrs A comparison of the expectation of early childhood programs between Puerto Rican parents and European American parents, based on a sample of 60 Puerto Rican and European American parents of children in Head Start programs in northeastern Connecticut	Reports & Papers
			Conceptualizations of readiness and the content of early learning standards: The intersection of policy and research? Scott-Little, Catherine, 2006 Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 21(2), 153-173 An analysis of 46 state-level early education standards documents to investigate the specific areas of development addressed in order to determine how different states conceptualize school readiness	Reports & Papers
			The Cost, Quality and Child Outcomes in Child Care Centers Study Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen S., Denver, CO: Center for Research on Economic and Social Policy A longitudinal study of the relationships between children's experiences in center-based care and school and their social, emotional and cognitive outcomes	Major Research Projects
			Can toddlers learn vocabulary from television?: An experimental approach Krcmar, Marina, 2007 Media Psychology, 10(1), 1-23 An investigation of young children?s ability to learn vocabulary quickly from television programs, also known as fast mapping, based on a sample of 48 toddlers between the ages of 15 and 24 months	Reports & Papers
			Development of academic skills from preschool through second grade: Family and classroom predictors of developmental trajectories Burchinal, Margaret, 2002 Journal of School Psychology, 40(5), 415-436 A study of the relationship between 511 children's acquisition of academic skills from preschool to second grade and their experiences with parents and teachers, based on data from the Cost, Quality, and Outcomes Study, spanning child care centers in four states	Reports & Papers
			Differential effects of high-quality child care Hill, Jennifer, 2002 Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 21(4), 601-627 An analysis of data collected from the Infant Health and Development Program examining the differential causal effects of access to high quality child care for at risk children who would otherwise have participated in one of three child care options: no non-maternal care, home-based non-maternal care, and center-based care	Reports & Papers
			Diversity, child care quality, and developmental outcomes Burchinal, Margaret, 2003 Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 18(4), 401-426 A study investigating the relationship between children's ethnicities and the validity of standardized child care quality measures, using data from the Cost, Quality, and Child Outcomes Study and the NICHD Study of Early Child Care	Reports & Papers
			Early Childhood Consultation Partnership: Results of a random-controlled evaluation: Final report and executive summary Gilliam, Walter S., May 15, 2007 Unpublished manuscript. An evaluation of the effects of the Early Childhood Consultation Partnership (ECCP), a statewide system of early childhood mental health consultation (ECMHC) in Connecticut, on classroom quality and teacher-child interactions, teacher instructional beliefs and practices, teacher job stress and satisfaction, and child classroom behavior	Reports & Papers
			Early childhood programs: Parent education and income best predict participation United States. General Accounting Office. Health, Education, and Human Services Division, 1994 (GAO/HEHS-95-47). Washington, DC: U.S. General Accounting Office. A report on the demographic factors of children that best predict preschool participation	Reports & Papers
			Early intervention in low birth weight premature infants: Results at 18 years of age for the Infant Health and Development Program McCormick, Marie C., 2006 Pediatrics, 117(3), 771-780 Findings from a follow-up study on the persistence of cognitive and behavioral benefits from early childhood program participation in 18-year-olds who were born with low birth weight and participated in the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP)	Reports & Papers
			Early intervention: The moderating role of the home environment Bradley, Robert H., 2001 Applied Developmental Science, 5(1), 2-8 An examination of the effect of young children's home environments on the impact of the Infant Health and Development Program, an early intervention program designed for at risk children from low income families	Reports & Papers
			Economic deprivation and early childhood development Duncan, Greg, 1994 Child Development, 65(2), 296-318 A study of the impact of poverty and poverty correlates such as ethnicity, maternal education, neighborhood conditions and single parenthood on child cognitive and behavioral development, using longitudinal data from the Infant Health and Development program	Reports & Papers
			Effect of early educational intervention on younger siblings: The Infant Health and Development Program McCormick, Marie C., October, 2012 Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 166(10), 891-896 A study of the relationship between participation of an older sibling in an early intervention program and the younger sibling's measures of intelligence, youth behavioral problems, and expectations of the future, based on data from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), an eight-site randomized trial of three years of early education for premature low-birth-weight infants who were followed up through age 18, and 229 siblings of participating children born within 5 years of the IHDP study participants	Reports & Papers
			The effects of experience of early intervention of low birth weight, premature children: The Infant Health and Development Program Liaw, Fong-ruey, 1995 Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 10(4), 405-431 A study of the effects of individual children's early intervention experiences, in both home and child development center settings, on child and parental outcomes in the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP)	Reports & Papers
			Effects of place of testing on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test scores of disadvantaged Head Start and non-Head Start children Seitz, Victoria, 1975 Child Development, 46(2), 481-486 A study of the impact of the testing environment on the test performance of disadvantaged children in the Head Start Program as compared with disadvantaged children not in Head Start, with a total sample of 40 children tested at home or in another location	Reports & Papers
			Growing Up in Poverty Project� Fuller, Bruce, Berkeley, CA: Policy Analysis for California Education A longitudinal study of the effects of mothers moving from welfare-to-work on their economic well-being, home environment, child care quality and use, and their young children's early development	Major Research Projects
			Head Start programs: Participant characteristics, services, and funding United States. General Accounting Office. Health, Education, and Human Services Division, 1998 (GAO/HEHS-98-65). Washington, DC: U.S. General Accounting Office. A study of several factors of the Head Start program, including the number of participants, participants' characteristics, services provided, service delivery methods, federal and non-federal dollars received and spent, and other programs providing similar early childhood services	Reports & Papers

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