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Investing in early human development: Timing and economic efficiency
Doyle, Orla, March, 2009
Economics and Human Biology, 7(1), 1-6

A description of the risk factors that motivate early intervention, an overview of both the economic rationale for investing in early childhood and the evidence on the optimal timing of intervention to reduce inequalities, a presentation of the antenatal investment hypothesis which suggests that investments made during the pregnancy period may yield the highest return, and a discussion of European interventions that could provide evidence in support of that hypothesis

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Needs or rights?: A challenge to the discourse of special education
Runswick-Cole, Katherine, December, 2009
British Journal of Special Education, 36(4), 198-203

An argument for the abandonment of the special needs discourse, due to its leading to exclusionary practices within education in the United Kingdom, in exchange for a rights-based discourse for young people currently described as having special educational needs

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